Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#66)
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 have just been added.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Google Play will soon be fazing out and rolled into YouTube Music. The playlist will continue to be supported on Google Play for the moment, but eventually will be going away along with the service, so please make preparations.
Newest Additions:
Vincent Neil Emerson (feat. Colter Wall) – “Road Runner” – Inspired by a tour Texas native Vincent Neil Emerson took with Canadian Colter Wall, “Road Runner” finds the two young men recounting the frantic road life in song (read more).
Emily Scott Robinson – “The Time For Flowers” – Saving Country Music’s reigning Song of the Year winner for her 2019 composition “The Dress” delivers with this timely offering of wisdom and warmth, featuring both Robinson’s class-leading songwriting and soothing, subtle warble. Mrs. Robinson does it again.
Rattlesnake Milk – “Dave Dudley” – On the dark and dirty side of country music, this Austin-based outfit who has many singing their praises for their new self-titled underground album. This song pays tribute to one of the overlords of country trucking songs.
Arlo McKinley – “Walking Shoes” – Arlo McKinley was the very final artist John Prine himself approved to be signed to Prine’s Oh Boy Records, and McKinley is readying a debut solo record called Die Midwestern slated for release on August 14th. Knowing what Arlo is capable of and with the quality of the first single “Walking Shoes,” it’s certainly an album to get on your radar.
Bryan James – “On Borrowed Time” – Florida-based Bryan James delivers plenty of gruff and attitude on his new album Politics or Religion, but don’t overlook his songwriting. “On Borrowed Time” proves he can offer the reflection of a Sunday morning, not just the party on a Saturday night.
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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, Google Play, Tidal, and on Apple Music thanks to Country Exclusive. For those who don’t stream music, you can still find the song recommendations in list form below.
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Note: The songs on this playlist are curated for listening pleasure
and flow. Otherwise, they are not in any specific order.
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Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:
- “All American Singer” – Zephaniah OHora – Listening to the Music (8-28)
- “Road Runner” – Vincent Neil Emerson feat. Colter Wall – (single)
- “The Time For Flowers” – Emily Scott Robinson – (single)
- “Bottom of the Pile” – Mike and the Moonpies – Touch of You: The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart
- “Neon Cross” – Jaime Wyatt – Neon Cross
- “Old Men” – Corb Lund – Agricultural Tragic
- “Dave Dudley” – Rattlesnake Milk – Self-Titled
- “Evergreen” – Hill Country – Self-Titled
- “River of Fools” – Logan Ledger – (single)
- “Why Do I Still Want You” – Tessy Lou Williams – Self-Titled
- “The Luckier You Get” – American Aquarium – Lamentations
- “How ‘Bout That” – Jonathan Parker – Broken Hearts & Broken Bones
- “Honky Tonk Woman” – Victoria Bailey – Jesus, Red Wine & Patsy Cline (TBA)
- “Forgot About You” – Triston Marez – (single)
- “Same Old Blues” – Joey Allcorn – (single)
- “Walking Shoes” – Arlo McKinley – Die Midwestern (8-14)
- “Renowhere” – Hellbound Glory – Pure Scum
- “Barbers and Bartenders” – Caitlin Cannon – The TrashCannon Album
- “Ditches” – T.J. Hernandez – Destination Unknown
- “Lonesome on My Own” – Reckless Kelly – American Jackpot / American Girls
- “Waiting in Line” – Kathryn Legendre – (single)
- “West Texas in My Eye” – The Panhandlers – The Panhandlers
- “Lightning on the Mountain” – Kyle Nix – Lightning on the Mountain
- “On Borrowed Time” – Bryan James – Politics or Religion
- “Welcome To Hard Times” – Charley Crockett – Welcome To Hard Times (7-31)
- “The Country Doesn’t Sound the Same” – John Baumann – Country Shade
June 28, 2020 @ 10:07 am
Great list, Trigger! Really love the new song from Zephaniah OHora. Incidentally, do you know how his last name is pronounced? Is it Oh-ora (like aurora) or O-Hora with a hard H? I’m hosting a radio show in Wimberley, TX at KWVH called “Outlaws & Outcasts” and I don’t want to flub up the man’s name. lol
June 28, 2020 @ 12:28 pm
The best way I know how to describe it would be how the Star Trek character Uhura’s name is pronounced. Oh-hoo-ra.
June 28, 2020 @ 10:09 am
The Other Playlist:
It’s all about diversity…Australia, Texas, Canada, traditional country, country-pop, bluegrass even Nash-pop…
Prediction: the next playlist will be much more traditional/australian centric. Many great new tracks are out or in the pipeline.
The Top Tracks:
– Best Track 2020 (so far): Jabe Burgess – “I Live For This”
– Most Played Track 2020 (so far): Mike Love Band – “Wild Horse”
– Most Played Song June 2020: American Young – “Say It To Me Sober”
– Guilty Pleasure Track: The McClymonts – “I Got This” (ReEntry)
– Song of the Summer (so far): Voodoo Town – “Girl Next Door” (NEW)
– Best NEW Track or Artist: Katie Brooke – “This Road Is Mine”
First track on the first Katie Brooke EP (released 06/25 – self titled). Katie Brooke is an australian singer/songwriter & health coach. “This Road Is Mine” is a positive, midtempo track with steel guitar. Her first single “Home Town Song” (released in 2018) is part of the EP too.
Active / New & Current Tracks:
The New Graces – “Seasons”
Clay Hollis – “Here I Go Again”
Clancy Pye – “Get Lost” (NEW)
Hinterland – “In The Hinterland”
Kylie Frey – “Spur Of The Moment”
Kathryn Legendre – “Waiting In Line”
Dani Young – “Outback Lullaby” (NEW)
Carson Jeffrey – “Take Away This Pain”
The Silverline – “Home Sweet Homeless”
Arna Georgia – “Passing Through” (NEW)
Tyler Joe Miller – “I Would Be Over Me Too”
Mitch Dean – “A Face In A Long Line” (NEW)
Michelle Billingsley – “Drink ‘Til I’m Pretty” (NEW)
Jaime Wyatt feat. Shooter Jennings – “Hurt So Bad”
Ronnie Joudo – “Falling In Love In Galveston” (NEW)
Active / ReCurrent & Country Gold:
Paul Costa – “Best Version Of Me”
Timmy Brown – “Wish You Knew Me”
Dixiana – “Waitin’ For The Deal To Go Down”
Wade Hayes – “Up North (Down South, Back East, Out West)”
Playlist / Testing:
The Buckleys – “Breathe”
Triston Marez – “One Day”
Hayden Baker – “Waitin’ On Love”
Ray Frost – “You Had Me Running”
Wagons – “Time Heals All Wounds”
Gayle O’Neil feat. Andrew Swift – “Drive Him Crazy”
Kristy Cox feat. Tommy Emmanuel – “Finger Pickin’ Good”
Corb Lund feat. Jaida Dreyer – “I Think You Oughta Try Whiskey”
Josh Arnold feat. Lee Kernaghan – “Thank God I’m A Country Boy” (Aussie Version)
July 1, 2020 @ 12:22 pm
Trigger on your list of the current playlist, you left out the Rattlesnake Milk song. It is on the Spotify and Amazon Music lists but I always go to your list.
July 1, 2020 @ 1:25 pm
Thanks for the heads up. Just added it.
July 2, 2020 @ 5:01 am
Great list – there are also great new tracks from Molly Tuttle and Brent Cobb. Emily Scott Robinson is , however, a real superstar in the making. My favourite album of last year