Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#135)
You better hope you’ve taken your anti-depressants recently, because the newest additions to the Top 25 playlist with take you to the deepest recesses of human emotion like only the best country music can.
The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist is built to keep you informed on all the best songs and albums coming out right here, right now in country and roots music. It’s available on most all streaming formats (see below), or you can just use the song, artist, and album recommendations to find something new to listen to. New songs just added.
Newest Additions:
Zach Top – “Use Me” – Zach Top is is one of the top young surging country traditionalists at the moment. He’s always had the right sound, but at times he’s struggled to find the right song. Co-written with Carson Chamberlain and Tim Nichols, “Use Me” is the right song.
Conrad Fisher – “Cecilia” – Conrad Fisher is a busy bee with a brand new album called Welcome to the Neighborhood out March 19th, and a new folk album out now called Fisher Brother Folk. But before all of that, let’s focus on this excellent single called “Cecilia” that fits perfectly into country music’s top selection of divorce songs.
The HawtThorns – “Nothing But a Shadow” – What an interesting and brilliantly dark-textured track from this Nashville-based duo, with the Roger McGuinn-esque guitar solo putting it over the top. The new HawtThorns album Zero Gravity is out April 5th.
Blackberry Smoke – “Don’t Mind If I Do” – These Southern rock gods have just released their latest album called Be Right Here, and “Don’t Mind If I Do” catches a sick groove with great tones, and delivers you into Southern rock bliss.
Kimmi Bitter – “Old School” – Kimmi Bitter is one to get on your radar right now ahead of her upcoming album Old School out March 29th. With a dazzling throwback country sound, Bitter makes her third appearance on the playlist with the album’s title track.
Brady Lux – “Little Bo Peep” – From Big Timber, Montana, Brady Lux is a Western artist who speaks to the real world. “Little Bo Peep” takes both cutting humor and absolute truth and delivers them with wit. This is Western music for 2024 that conveys the actual reality of things, and tears back the veneer. From Lux’s debut album Ain’t Gone So Far.
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The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist primarily lives on Spotify, but is also available for those who use Amazon Music, YouTube, Apple Music, and Tidal. For those who don’t stream music, you can still find the song recommendations in list form below.
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Please Note: The songs on this playlist are curated for listening pleasure and flow. Otherwise, they are not in any specific order.
Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:
- “$10 Cowboy” – Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy (4/16)
- “Old School” – Kimmi Bitter – Old School (3-29)
- “Coulda Been Love” – Randall King – Into The Neon
- “Use Me” – Zach Top – Cold Beer & Country Music (4/5)
- “First Snow” – Colby T. Helms – Tales of Misfortune
- “Cecilia” – Conrad Fisher – (single)
- “I Know It’ll Never End” – The Castellows – A Little Goes A Long Way EP
- “Little Bo Peep” – Brady Lux – Ain’t Gone So Far
- “Redneck Rehab” – Corb Lund – El Viejo
- “Nothing But A Shadow” – The HawtThorns – Zero Gravity (4-5)
- “Gimmie a Guitar” – Robert Henry & the Repeaters – The Way It Usually Goes
- “Runaway Train” – Sarah Jarosz – Polaroid Lovers
- “Not Letting Go” – William Michael Morgan – (single)
- “Will You Ever Be Mine” – Bronwyn Keith-Hynes – (single)
- “Is It Cold In Oklahoma” – Hayden Baker – (single)
- “Workin’ Hard (Day and Night)” – Jesse Daniel – (single)
- “Ain’t Enough Whiskey” – Jaime Wyatt w/ Butch Walker – Feel Good
- “Don’t Mind If I Do” – Blackberry Smoke – Be Right Here
- “Orange Bottles” – Wyatt Flores – Life Lessons
- “Fallen” – Johnny Falstaff – (single)
- “Right Back To It” – Waxahatchee – Tigers Blood (3-24)
- “Meet Me At The Edge of Town” – James Dean Kindle – Trail Songs (4-6)
- “No Stranger” – Chasen Wayne – (single)
- “That’s What Makes The World Go Around” Charley Crockett w/ Willie Nelson – (single)
- “Broken Heart To Broken Heart” – Bailey Rae – (single)
- “The Line” – The Wilder Blue – Super Natural
February 25, 2024 @ 9:53 am
Give Jordan Lee King By and By a couple spins think you find a song or 2 that could be added.
February 25, 2024 @ 1:10 pm
The new Zach Top song is amazing I’ve had it on repeat all weekend. A must listen to for anyone on the site
February 25, 2024 @ 2:32 pm
Thank you, Trigger. I appreciate it.
February 25, 2024 @ 3:10 pm
You always got the sad stuff. Thanks. Speaking of witch, be sure to listen to the new Those Poor Bastards “Back to the Primitive” releasing on Feb 27 with new hit songs about insects, police brutality, and getting burned.
February 25, 2024 @ 4:19 pm
A couple of last Friday’s releases I’ve enjoyed:
Desiree Cannon – Radio Heat
Leslie Stevens – Leslie Stevens
It’s a national holiday in the Euro South universe whenever Leslie Stevens releases something (which is unfortunately a rather infrequent occurrence).
I’ve also really enjoyed Joshua Ray Walker’s wonderful acoustic overview of the highlights of his recorded output so far, Thank You For Listening.
February 26, 2024 @ 8:55 am
Thanks for the extra suggestions, always appreciated. Where do you get your “country new releases” other than SCM?
February 26, 2024 @ 4:15 pm
I regularly check Featured New Releases on AllMusic, Best New Albums on Paste, Bluesky Bullet Points on Country Universe. A few other places too. But people like Leslie Stevens I follow directly as she is one of my favorite current artists (and under the radar of most of these outlets). Incidentally in her younger days she spent time in Rome and has a song about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x12w2vsBfBI
February 29, 2024 @ 6:55 am
wow that’s my town! crazy and i knew nothing about it. thanx for the head up.
February 26, 2024 @ 6:07 am
I like the Kimmi Bitter song and look. Bri Bagwell’s The Rescue is still getting spins, it’s one of the sweetest songs and videos of all time. The Indy Annies EP sits atop the morning drive playlist here at the mansion, it’s a masterpiece. Jenny Tolman’s record, Broke Down In Jennyville Sessions, was the welcome surprise of the week. Don’t think I’m only listening to women, because Randall King’s and Drake Milligan’s tunes are in heavy rotation, as is Wild Earp’s Enjoy The Silence. I like your song as well Conrad, nice job!!
February 26, 2024 @ 3:06 pm
Thanks JB! Recorded at Ragamuffin Hall!
February 26, 2024 @ 7:35 am
Drake Milligan’s 4 song EP released a couple Fridays ago is really good. He knows how to make a classic approach sound modern and fresh. Really want to catch him live because I’m sure his show is just flat out fun.
February 26, 2024 @ 8:55 am
Thanks for the extra suggestions, always appreciated. Where do you get your “country new releases” other than S.C.M.?
February 26, 2024 @ 9:09 am
Whiskey Riff (aka Risky Whiff as sometimes referred to around this website) does a new country playlist every Friday on all the major streaming platforms. They tend to have a lot of Texas and Red Dirt stuff but they also do a decent job of finding new stuff from the ladies. It’s one of the better things they do over there anyway.
JB seems to find even more off the radar stuff up at the mansion and he’s usually pretty reliable so check out the stuff he suggests in these comments when he throws it out there too.
February 26, 2024 @ 10:02 am
You need to get some Ellis Bullard on this list. New album is fire.. Maybe help with all this depression.
February 26, 2024 @ 4:00 pm
Haven’t been excited for a new release as I have been in a long time as Zach Top.
February 27, 2024 @ 3:45 pm
Blackberry Smoke is coming to the Manchester, NH, venue that Maren Morris’ people had that big dust-up with last year. What’s interesting is that the show is being advertised on at least one of our mainstream country FM stations, none of which have ever played anything by Blackberry Smoke! The afternoon DJ even raved about what a great show Smoke put on while reading the ad. What’s it going to take for country radio to start playing the acts whose shows are advertised on them? There something that’s just wrong about live-reading an ad for Blackberry Smoke, then going right into the new Tyler Hubbard song.
February 27, 2024 @ 6:07 pm
Kinda random but there’s no better place I know of to ask this question: what’s the deal with Rodney Crowell’s Diamonds and Dirt album? Seemingly not on YouTube or iTunes.
February 27, 2024 @ 6:42 pm
The tracks from the album are all or nearly all on YouTube. I just searched for five of them and they all came up in the search results. I don’t have iTunes, but Spotify has the full album, but several songs are “grayed out” with the notation “Spotify can’t play this right now.”
If Crowell, his label, or his legal eagles are trying to pull a Garth Brooks and remove his songs from the internet, they’re not doing a great job of it, fortunately.