Pour yourself a vodka & ginger ale and listen to:

"That's the Way The World Goes Round"
"Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore"
"Dear Abby"
"Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian"
"When I Get To Heaven"


by John Prine

Timber-Patty Loveless
One Man Band-Montgomery Gentry
My World-Second Chaynce
Automatic-Miranda Lambert
You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma—David Frizzell and Shelly West
Cup of Tea-Rex Allen and Margo Smith
Crowded Table-Highwomen

Thank you for this thread!

On the more serious side:
The Gambler
Sixteen Tons
The Coward of the County
Three Wooden Crosses
Butterfly Kisses
Don’t Take the Girl
The Coward of the County
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Live Like You’re Dying
Big John
Let Me Go Lover

Also:
Counting Flowers on the Wall
Would You Go With Me?

Anonymous wrote:Drunk by Miranda Lambert
She also has another song about basically being a hot mess (I think there’s a line about mascara running) which is great. Something about her mother not approving. Too lazy to Google.

This is on my playlist - “Mama’s Broken Heart.” Fantastic song.

Other country songs I love, as an Xer who grew up here and didn’t get a lot of exposure to it until college in the middle of nowhere when it was one of the only radio stations we had:
nearly all of the Dixie Chicks catalog
ditto Mary Chapin Carpenter
455 Rocket, Kathy Mattea
No One Needs to Know, Shania Twain
I’m Alright, Jody Messina
Except for Monday, Lorrie Morgan
Runaway Train, Roseanne Cash
Born to Fly, Sara Evans
Believe Me Baby, Trisha Yearwood
You Don’t Even Know Who I Am, Patty Loveless
And I don’t love Taylor Swift generally but “Mean” is perfect.

Drunk by Miranda Lambert
She also has another song about basically being a hot mess (I think there’s a line about mascara running) which is great. Something about her mother not approving. Too lazy to Google.

A current new discovery and favorite, Margo Cilker "Tehachapi": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx8A86D4Nns

Mount Moriah, "Higher Mind": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W93PuFGy26U

When I need some tired-lady power, Margo Price, "a little pain": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68-J3wJjaDY

Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr.
Get your shine on - Florida Georgia Line
My Maria - Brooks & Dunn
Traveller - Chris Stapleton

Anonymous wrote:Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker)
It Ain’t My Fault (Brothers Osborne)
Most songs by Florida-Georgia Line
Let it Be (FG Line and Bebe Rexha)

PP here. Also LANCO’s Greatest Love Story.

Wagon Wheel (Darius Rucker)
It Ain’t My Fault (Brothers Osborne)
Most songs by Florida-Georgia Line
Let it Be (FG Line and Bebe Rexha)

When it rains it pours (and lots of other songs by Luke Combs)

Wagon Wheel by Darius Rucker and that other song by him that says, “I’ve got shoes under my feet and a woman in bed laying next to me, and it’s alright” or something. Hootie sings happy songs.

(Dixie) Chicks Earl song

Knockin Boots
Drunk on a Plane
Chicken Fry
Life is short, Make it sweet

(I can’t remember the names of some other ones—let me google.)

Why Don’t We Just Dance
Gimmie That Girl
Thank God I’m a Country Boy
Boot Scootin’ Boogie
Harper Valley PTA
If You’re Gonna Play in Texas
A Boy Named Sue
On the Road Again
19 Somethin’
Devil Went Down to Georgia
Orange Blossom Special

Spark joy? Are you the Marie Kondo of country?

List any and all favorites to inspire me.
If they’re sad and heavy, you can still list them. I mean, it’s just fun to talk about.

I can take or leave any suggestions for my actual Playlist

I have a playlist of any song I come across new, or re-listen after many years, that has the “spark Joy” feel to it.
Just anything that feels great to me. Makes me dance, or feel positive, or brings back good memories.

What are YOUR favorite country songs?
And Especially spark joy. So, maybe not the sad heavy songs. But, maybe include those too if they draw something out of you, like a positive determination.

[*I have this spark joy playlist, but I want a separate Country one, because I love it all and don’t want to mix it in with pop, rock.

Same if I had a classical faves list. I’m in a different mood listening to country vs. other music. I have a couple country on my playlist, and they work, but I don’t want to do too much.]