Country Music Songs to Get a Country Hater to Like Country

[Anonymous]

Walker Hayes A.A., Fancy Like
Cooper Alan - Can't Dance, love his mashups too
Paul Brandt - My Heart Has a History

[Anonymous]

Snapback by Old Dominion

[Anonymous]

Start w/ indie blue grass and work your way in like Blue Mountain

Patsy Cline

Early country ish Miley Cyrus

[Anonymous]

Ruston Kelly, Hurricane in my Head

Old 97s, Doreen

Scott Miller, Amtrak crescent

Sons of Bill, Santa Ana Winds


You’ll prob have more luck with alt country than radio stuff if he likes rock.

[Anonymous]

Can't find 'One margarita fool' - who's it by?

[Anonymous]

Anything by Old Dominion or Brothers Osborne or Chris Stapleton. So, so good.
We've been on a John Pardi kick over here lately: Tequila a Little Time With You is pretty catchy.

[Anonymous]

Maren Morris, My Church

I’m really more of a Jason Isbell person myself, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Come Walk This World with Me (by George Jones)

such a gorgeous one. someone who cannot appreciate George Jones probably just doesn’t like music and is a lost cause anyway.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can't find 'One margarita fool' - who's it by?

One margarita

[Anonymous]

I think a lot of the suggestions are off track. Someone who “refuses to like country” won’t like country radio hits that are more rock than country anyway. You need to show them country at its absolute best, virtuoso voices and gorgeous simple lyrics. Dolly, George Jones, Merle … if you want a more upbeat sound, outlaw country like Willie Nelson.

[Anonymous]

Brad Paisley
Me Neither

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3WYHFCryFVg

[Anonymous]

I have 18 SiriusXM presets in my car, of various genres. None of them Country.

[Anonymous]

Suds in the Bucket - Sara Evans
Good Directions - Luke Bryan
Redneck Woman - Gretchen Wilson
OMG anything by George Strait...Give it Away, Let Herself Go, All My Exes, Check Yes or No, Amarillo by Morning.


Def do not start with Big and Rich.

[Anonymous]

I think the key question is what kind of music does this person like?

There is a ton of crossover country. I grew up on indie rock and I love Morgan Wade, she has a heavy southern accent but rock instramentation and indie rock themes-matches and metaphors and take me away are two great songs. I enjoy a lot of the suggestions by pp, but lets be real that they are trash pop country songs and I think someone who isn't into the genre would not be won over (looking at your walker hays and old dominion).