Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#143)

You better like Country music with a ‘C’ because it’s coming at you hard and heavy in this playlist update. It includes tons of upbeat twang just in time for the heart of the summer, and just as country has never been hotter.

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:

George Dearborne – “Misery Loves Country” – Dearborne might have released one of the best traditional country albums of 2024 so far with Lotta Honky Tonkin’ Left In Me, and this is one of the best songs of the lot. Super well-written by David Frasier, Edward Hill, and Josh Kear, it’s even more exquisitely delivered by Dearborne and the band.

Hogslop String Band w/ Sierra Ferrell – “Oldsmobile” – The Hogslop String Band is known for their wild and high energy live shows. But instead of trying to capture that madness in the studio (which would be impossible anyway), they really made a gem here, and then brought in Sierra Ferrell to take it even further. This might be the band’s best studio track yet.

Matt Castillo – “Pain and Sorrow” – If you’re looking for another young modern traditionalist to slip in your playlist beside Zach Top, Matt Castillo is the man that you need to be paying attention to. His new album Pushing Borders is excellent, and he also brings those little inflections of Hispanic flair that give his take on country a distinct flavor like the accordion in “Pain and Sorrow.” There is a reason this song is topping the Top 25 Playlist.

49 Winchester – “Hillbilly Happy” – The boys from Virginia get you extra amped up for August 2nd when their new album Leavin’ This Holler arrives with this fun country rock heater.

Ben Jerrell – “Tucumcari Tonight” – Ben Jerrell has a new surprise album out called A Country Song, and any road dog worth their salt has passed the “Tucumcari Tonight” signs out on Interstate 40/old Route 66. This trucker tune will definitely get your motor running.

Rachel Brooke – “The One Who Got Away” – Underground country legend Jayke Orvis once said of Rachel Brooke that she has so much pain in her voice. You can hear that in this track from the “Queen of Underground Country.” Brooke has been releasing a string of country hearbreakers ahead of a proper album release down the road, and this one might be the best so far.

Melissa Carper – “Let’s Get Outta Here” – Melissa Carper takes you all the way back to the 1940s on her new album Borned In Ya. The album is more about era than genre, but “Let’s Get Outta Here” has lots of sweet Golden Era country instrumentation to go along with Carper’s always clever writing.

Billy Strings – “Richard Petty” – Billy has been featuring this excellent a capella song with his band in concert for some time now. The release of his first live album Live Vol. 1 finally gives us a recorded version we can pull up and enjoy. Think Strings has gone all jam band on us? “Richard Petty” is here to disagree, and give you goosebumps along the way.

Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) – “Who I Am” – Sturgill is back, and though some of his detractors will say his new album Passage Du Desir is not country, “Who I Am” and a few other songs would beg to differ. For sure the album is more omnivorous than Simpson’s early albums, but this song shows Sturg can still deliver a stellar country song when he decides to.


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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:

• “Pain and Sorrow” – Matt Castillo – Pushing Borders
• “Cut Me Loose” – Jesse Daniel w/ Ben Haggard– Countin’ The Miles
• “Misery Loves Country” – George Dearborne – Lotta Honky Tonkin’ Left In Me
• “Oldsmobile” – Hogslop String band feat. Sierra Ferrell – (single)
• “Come Rest Your Head (On My Pillow)” – Kaitlin Butts w/ Vince Gill – Roadrunner
• “Tucumcari Tonight” – Ben Jarrell – A Country Song
• “Eagle Rare” – Silverada – Silverada
• “Hillbilly Happy” – 49 Winchester – Leavin’ This Holler (8-2)
• “Big Bad Heart” – Lance Roark (single)
• “The One Who Got Away” – Rachel Brooke – (single)
• “Overnight Success” – The Mavericks – Moon & Stars
• “Moth to a Flame” – Morgan Wade – Obsessed (8-16)
• “Big Medicine Moon” – Tris Munsick & The Innocents – (single)
• “Let’s Get Outta Here” – Melissa Carper – Borned In Ya
• “Messy As A Magnolia” – American Aquarium – The Fear of Standing Still (7-26)
• “I Can’t Unlove You” – Kimmi Bitter – Old School
• “Wish Me Well” – Red Shahan – Loose Funky Texas Junky
• “Burn It Down” – Shawna Thompson – Lean On Neon (9-13)
• “Leave Your Leaving Behind” – Walker Montgomery – (single)
• “Montana” – Charlie Marie – Live AF
• “Who I Am” – Johnny Blue Skies (Sturgill Simpson) – Passage Du Desir
• “Traveling The Highway Home” – Kelsey Waldon w/ Margo Price – There’s Always a Song
• “Letting It Go” – Alice Wallace – Here I Am
• “28” – Zach Bryan – The Great American Bar Scene
• “Deep Feeler” – Liv Greene – Deep Feeler (10-18)
• “Richard Petty” – Billy Strings – Live Vol. 1