Newest Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#67)
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:
Zephaniah OHora – “Black & Blue” – The Brooklyn-based classic country crooner pulls off the very rare playlist feat of having two songs on the playlist simultaneously, and replaces his song “All American Singer” at the top spot with his recently-released “Black & Blue.” Either song will give your serious chills like you’re listening to the ghost of Merle Haggard, and his new album Listening to the Music out August 28th is quickly becoming one of the most anticipated releases of 2020.
Charley Crockett – “Run Horse Run” – Don’t look now, but Charley Crockett may just save country music single-handedly. The second new track from his upcoming record Welcome To Hard Times out July 31st will get you motivated while giving you some major Johnny Cash vibes.
S.G. Goodman – “Space and Time” – You better not overlook this new record from this impassioned Kentucky songwriter that will probably end up on the positive side of many end-of-year lists. Immediately upon cuing up this song you’re undivided attention is earned when the bold and confident voice of S.G. Goodman comes bursting out in a watery tone indicative of classic country.
Tennessee Jet – “Stray Dogs” – The regular running buddy and co-writer with Cody Jinks is getting ready to release a new record called The Country via Thirty Tigers on September 4th, and tantalizes us with this great folk country tune perfect for a road trip.
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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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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:
- “Black & Blue” – Zephaniah OHora – Listening to the Music (8-28)
- “Run Horse Run” – Charley Crockett – Welcome To Hard Times (7-31)
- “Space And Time” – S.G. Goodman – Old Time Feeling
- “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
- “Stray Dogs” – Tennessee Jet – The Country (9-4)
- “The Luckier You Get” – American Aquarium – Lamentations
- “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)
- “All American Singer” – Zephaniah OHora – Listening to the Music (8-28)
- “Barbers and Bartenders” – Caitlin Cannon – The TrashCannon Album
- “Lonesome on My Own” – Reckless Kelly – American Jackpot / American Girls
- “Waiting in Line” – Kathryn Legendre – (single)
- “Lightning on the Mountain” – Kyle Nix – Lightning on the Mountain
- “On Borrowed Time” – Bryan James – Politics or Religion
- “The Country Doesn’t Sound the Same” – John Baumann – Country Shade
July 19, 2020 @ 8:48 am
Is there a way to get older versions of the playlist? Like can I play version #12 or whatever? Thanks
July 19, 2020 @ 8:56 am
You can’t go back and listen to them verbatim, but if you use the search option in the top right corner of the site, you can pull up the archive of the playlist themselves since they are each numbered. So for example if you put in, “playlist 12,” it will take you to it. Or, here’s a hyperlink: https://savingcountrymusic.com/?s=playlist+12
Just replace the final number with whatever playlist you’re looking for, and it will show up as the first search option.
July 19, 2020 @ 9:16 am
That’s too bad. It would be really cool to be able to “go back in time” and listen to old versions with just a click.
BTW, I have to say that you’re really good at this. Sometimes I read a very positive review you give to some album, try it, and don’t immediately like it (e.g. Caitlin Cannon), but then I’m listening to this playlist all the time and come to start to hear why you gave it a good rating in the first place. My only complaint is that you almost always seem to choose the best tracks from an album and when I go to listen to the rest of The album I’m often disappointed. 🙂
Anyway, this playlist is a huge service to the community. Thanks for doing the work!
July 19, 2020 @ 2:52 pm
Hi there, any chance you can put the playlist on Deezer? Cheers mate.
July 19, 2020 @ 3:35 pm
Unfortunately I can’t get access to Deezer here in the US, so I would have to rely on someone with a Deezer account to basically simulcast it, and then I could link to it in these updates, similar to what I do for Tidal.
July 19, 2020 @ 9:48 am
Thanks for the intro to Tennessee Jet…I hadn’t heard of him, but like that song.
July 19, 2020 @ 11:03 am
The Other Playlist:
My new best track of 2020 is “Outback Lullaby” co-written & sung by aussie Dani Young.
It’s a dreamy, atmospheric & unique track with rhythm changes. I’m not a big fan of dance/trance/house remixes of country tracks. “Outback Lullaby” is perfect for a remix.
The Top Tracks:
– Best Track 2020 (so far): Dani Young – “Outback Lullaby”
– Most Played Track 2020 (so far): American Young – “Say It To Me Sober”
– Most Played Song July 2020 (so far): Katie Brooke – “This Road Is Mine”
– Guilty Pleasure Track: The McClymonts – “I Got This”
– Song of the Summer (so far): Robert Counts – “What Do I Know” (NEW)
– Best NEW Track or Artist: Robert Counts – “What Do I Know” (NEW)
“Aggressive” country-rocker.
Active / New & Current Tracks:
Hinterland – “In The Hinterland”
The New Graces – “Misty” (NEW)
Arna Georgia – “Passing Through”
Kylie Frey – “Spur Of The Moment”
Jake Bush – “Gravity & You” (NEW)
Carson Jeffrey – “Take Away This Pain”
The Silverline – “Home Sweet Homeless”
Robynn Shayne – “Devil You Know” (NEW)
Ronnie Joudo – “Falling In Love In Galveston”
Rebecca Lee Nye – “For My Hearts Sake” (NEW)
Andrew Swift – “Never Meant To Break Your Heart” (NEW)
Kristy Cox feat. Tommy Emmanuel – “Finger Pickin’ Good” (NEW)
Corb Lund feat. Jaida Dreyer – “I Think You Oughta Try Whiskey” (NEW)
Josh Arnold feat. Lee Kernaghan – “Thank God I’m A Country Boy” (Aussie Version) (NEW)
Amber Lawrence, Aleyce Simmonds, Kirsty Lee Akers & Dianna Corcoran – “True Blue” (NEW)
Active / ReCurrent & Country Gold:
The New Graces – “Seasons”
Tim Ryan – “Dance In Circles”
Trick Pony – “Every Other Memory”
Arne Benoni – “If It Wasn’t For Love”
Playlist / Testing:
Gareth Leach – “Honey”
Jade Turner – “Highway Town”
Aleyce Simmonds – “Just Do It”
Market Junction – “Out Of Love”
Katrina Burgoyne – “It All Falls Down”
Jeremy Studdard – “Barely Breathing”
Michael Carpenter & The Banks Brothers – “Honky Tonker”
July 19, 2020 @ 12:29 pm
Would LOVE to see this in a spotify or some kind of streaming playlist, OlaR.
July 20, 2020 @ 9:43 am
Would love to see my spotify playlist too…lol.
Still not a big fan of streaming. But…never say never.
July 20, 2020 @ 9:57 am
How else are you consuming all this music if not through streaming?
August 16, 2020 @ 2:03 pm
That “Country Boy” song it was fun. But hearing them call themselves Australian with a southern accent was amusing. But I am enjoying these extras picks. It give me even more to digest.
July 19, 2020 @ 11:53 pm
The two best albums released this far, this year….
Rattlesnake Milk and the Boomswagglers.
July 21, 2020 @ 5:21 am
The music on this play list is very good and reminds me of what you would hear on the charts in the 80s and 90s. Great music. My favourite is Mike & the Moonpies who do real justice to the lost songs of Gary Stewart. Not far behind is Kyle Nix, Charlie Crockett and Jaime Wyatt. The others almost all very good. Your lists always mean buying music from artists I was not previously aware of. Great job.