Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#163)

Don’t ever find yourself taking for granted that we live in such a fruitful, resurgent time for true country music. It’s a bumper crop of incredible songs coming out each week. This is where you can find the cream of the crop.

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:

Brennen Leigh – “Dumpster Diving” – This song mixes Brennen’s classic humor with her cutting insight, saying more in a minute forty than many blathering and aimless tracks do in four minutes, though it does leave you wanting more. Don’t worry though, there’s 11 more tracks due out October 3rd on new album Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love.

Will Banister, Jake Worthington – “Honky Tonk Talkin’” – Will Banister is one of the best living traditional country voices out there right now, and he joins up with one of the fastest-rising traditional country voices in Jake Worthington for this Outlaw country half-time heater. This song was co-written by Will with Zach Top and Zach’s producer Carson Chamberlain.

Waylon Jennings – “The Cowboy (Small Town Texas)” – Though written by fellow country legend Johnny Rodriguez, this is the perfect composition for Waylon, singing about humble beginnings in small town Texas (In Waylon’s case, Littlefield), along with referencing the “hippies and cowboys” scene that Waymore stumbled upon in Austin, TX. It accompanies other new, unheard songs from Waylon on the album Songbird out October 3rd.

Spencer Hatcher – “When She Calls Me Cowboy” – Spencer Hatcher is one of the most promising up-and-coming voices in traditional country music, and this new song underscores why. It’s also why it was such a tragedy to hear that his mother was killed, and father injured in a home invasion earlier this month. We continue to pray for this young man’s family, while supporting him as part of our country music family.

Jared Dustin Griffin – “Bag of Bones” – It’s the gravely voice that initially piques your ear. But it’s the lyrics and the hook that keep you listening. Accompanied by vocalist Heather Little on the track, “Bag of Bones” is from Griffin’s upcoming album The Perseverance of Sisyphus out September 26th.

Tyler Hatley, Justin Clyde Williams – “Linda James (Live)” – These two North Carolina songwriters have a new collaborative, live/recorded hybrid album all called The Dick & Tammy Show that’s quite entertaining. And though there are a bunch of great original songs written by the two, it’s their rendition of this Nicholas Jamerson song that it feels like the world needs to hear, especially how the two harmonize at the end.

Joshua Hedley – “Fresh Hot Biscuits” – Hedley has us all losing our heads in anticipation of his new Western Swing album All Hat due out on October 24th. “Fresh Hot Biscuits” definitely evokes the era, and hopefully will reignite interest in this important country subgenre.

Charley Crockett – “Tennessee Quick Cash” –  This is perhaps the best on Charley Crockett’s new album Dollar A Day. Though the direct reference is to pawnbrokers, the allusion is to to the record labels in Nashville and their predatory ways. Sure, you can pawn your future with a major label and walk away with some jingle in your pocket. But they may own your ass indefinitely afterwards. This song could become a Charley Crockett all-timer.

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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, and Apple Music. 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:

• “Tennessee Quick Cash” – Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day
• “I Drink Well With Others” – Sunny Sweeney – Rhinestone Requiem
• “Honky Tonk Talkin'” – Will Banister, Jake Worthington – (single)
• “Dumpster Diving” – Brennen Leigh – Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love (10-3)
• “A Memory Lost Somewhere” – Kyle Gates – (single)
• “Fresh Hot Biscuits” – Joshua Hedley – All Hat (10-24)
• “A Lesson In Leavin’” – Sierra Ferrell, Nikki Lane – (single)
• “Linda James” – Tyler Hatley, Justin Clyde Williams – The Dick and Tammy Show
• “Keys To The Tacoma” – Joshua Ray Walker – Tropicana
• “The Cowboy (Small Texas Town)” – Waylon Jennings – Songbird (10-3)
• “When You Can’t Remember” – Cody Jinks – In My Blood
• “When She Calls Me Cowboy” – Spencer Hatcher – (single)
• “My Home’s In Oklahoma” – Jake Worthington – When I Write The Song (9-12)
• “South of Sanity” – Zach Top – Ain’t In It For My Health (8-29)
• “Heartbreak City, USA” – Tami Neilson – Neon Cowgirl
• “Giving Up And Giving In” – Myron Elkins – Nostalgia For Sale
• “I Keep Your Memory Alive” – Randall King – (single)
• “Misty Blue” – Jesse Lovelock – (single, Jesse Lovelock and the Velvet Voices)
• “Easy To Find” – Chasen Wayne – Corpus
• “Bag of Bones” – Jared Dustin Griffin – The Perseverance of Sisyphus (9-26)
• “All Around Cowboy” – Charley Crockett – Dollar A Day (8-8)
• “Woodruff City Limit” – Nikki Lane – (single)
• “Modern Railways” – Cody Christian – (single)
• “Houston Belongs To Me” – Sunny Sweeney – Rhinestone Requiem
• “Cheatin On My Honky Tonk” – Randall King feat. Braxton Keith (single)
• “Spectacle Lake” – The Onlies – You Climb The Mountain (9-19)
• “Foolish Heart” – Tami Neilson – Neon Cowgirl