I’m sort of a country music newb. I didn’t start listening to it until I went off to college in the South. And it wasn’t until this past spring when I really started to listen to it (all day long) and fall in love with it.
I love that each song tells a story. I love that I can relate to said stories. I love that I can figure out the lyrics without guessing. I love that the music doesn’t give me a migraine.
- More LIke Her By Miranda Lambert
- Heart Like Mine By Miranda Lambert
- Who Are You When I’m Not Looking By Blake Shelton
- Take a Back Road By Rodney Atkins
- Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not By Thompson Square
- Knee Deep By Zac Brown Band
- Whatever It Is By Zac Brown Band
- Chicken Fried By Zac Brown Band
- Dirt Road Anthem By Jason Aldean
- Country Girl By Luke Bryan
- There’s Your Trouble By Dixie Chicks
- Toes By Zac Brown Band
- Barefoot Blue Jean By Jake Owen
- I Won’t Let Go By Rascal Flats
- Storm Warning by Hunter Hayes
- Wanna Take You Home By Gloriana
- Staying’s Worse Than Leaving By Sunny Sweet
- You and Tequila By Kenny Chesney
- I Got You By Thompson Square
- Remind Me By Brad Paisley + Carrie Underwood
- Laughed Until We Cried by Jason Aldean
- The House That Built Me By Miranda Lambert
- Enchanted By Taylor Swift
Most of these come on Today’s Country Radio regularly, an awesome Pandora station!
My favorite one from the list (this week) is Are you Gonna Kiss Me Or Not By Thompson Square. I tried embedding the video here, but Youtube won’t let me. It’s worth clicking over though, I promise.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Tell Me: Are you a country music fan? If not, what kind of music do you listen to?
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I didn’t know you were a country fan! Love it. But my boyfriend, Tim McGraw, is hurt he didn’t make the list
He’s been MIA lately…right? I do love him and Faith. Oh wait, he’s not a married man…
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T-swift is about the only country I’ll listen to! I love her but the rest I have a hard time getting into! I am more of a rock and roll girl
I don’t mind country but don’t actively seek it out either. I like T. Swift’s music but I don’t really consider it very country-ish.
Or was it Taylor Hicks? HAHAHHA
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Ohhhh Brad
So weird! Kath just talked about Brad Paisley this morning which made me launch into this whole diatribe about country music on her blog! Haha. I recently just got into Zac Brown Band and love it. I’m also a sucker for a good Carrie Underwood song
I know, deja vu!
Remind Me by Carrie Underwood + Brad Paisley seriously makes me tear up when I hear it! Love, love, love that song!
I KNOW! Prettiest song ever.
I’m in love with Jason Aldean right now…and I love Miranda, too!!! Those were ALL some of my favorite songs!!!
With each song I read I siliently said ‘ooooo- ooo-oooo I love that song!!!’ Good choices!
….Areyou going to kiss me or not, heart warming. I feel like a giddy girl each time I listen to that song!!!
Love this playlist! Sometimes all I want to do is listen to country music! I saw Miranda Lambert in concert and she was great! I love all her music. Have you ever listened to the Civil Wars? They’re kind of country and so so good! I Think you’d like them.
You did? Cool!
I haven’t listened to the Civil Wars…I’m going to check them out now. Thanks.
You should definitely listen to Sugarland. I consider them to be more country-pop – kind of like Taylor Swift. Their songs “Stuck like Glue”, “Settlin’”, and “All I Want To Do” are all phenomenal!
Check out Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum, and Trace Adkins!
I LOOOOVE Lady A, but I have their 2 latest albums and have listened to them ad nauseum!! I do like Sugarland, somehow they missed the list
. Next time! Thanks for the recs.
Ooh I must comment again. I LOVE Kenny. Especially “I Go Back.”
Try listening to “crazy girl” by Eli young band (?)
My friend and her husband danced to this song as their first dance at their wedding. Very sweet
Oh man! I SOOOO meant to put that on my list. I’m pretty sure I wrote it on a post-it note somewhere. LOVE that song!
I LOVE country music it is all that I listen too! I like it because there is an actually story or point to the music and not just a bunch of garbage like I feel some other genres are!
My favorite is Sugarland!!!!!
I was the same way! I never listened to country music until college in Delaware. Then I moved to Virginia, and now Texas. The further South, the more country music you hear!
I love Take a backroad by Rodney Atkins. And I’m a sucker for anything by Taylor Swift. Check out Randy Rogers Band. He is Texas country and not too mainstream. But I think you’d love it.
I am not a country music kind of gal, but I do like T swift once in awhile! I have no idea what kind of music I like bahah, I listen to anything really
I’m not a country music fan but I’ve been surrounded by it! My aunt loves Shania Twain and my old manager loved George Strait.
Let me know when/if you decide to head to Nashvegas, I’ll tell where to go and what to see. I’m born and raised! Although I kind of hate country… hah!
Hopefully soon! Though, probably not
How can you hate it?!
I never got into country (except ones that make it to the adult top 40), but since I’m (re-)learning the guitar now, I should familiarize myself with these. I’m mostly a rap girl.
OMG I love love love country which is super weird for a native new yorker! (at least from the downstate nyc region). We don’t have a single country music radio station in new york city or long island.
Don’t forget Lady Antebellum..they are one my favorites!! and Brad Paisley, and Sugarland, and Rodney Atkins, and Trace Atkins, and Eric Church, and Luke Bryan!
I do love Lady A! Unfortunately, I listened to their album WAY too many times. I need the new one!!
I go back and forth with Country — I’ll listen to it every day for months on end, and then I’ll decide to listen to something else. There are some Country songs that I just love and cry every time I hear them.
I LOVE Jason Aldean! I’m not a big country fan in general, but there are certain songs and artists that I really like.
My family owned a Country-Western store most of my life (boots, saddles, cowboy hats–the whole 9 yards) so I’m definitely a fan.
Rascall Flatts’ earlier stuff is some of my favorite music ever! I’m also a devoted George Straight fan (I used to play “Check Yes or No” endlessly until my family got sick of it. Haha.)
i listen to country incessantly while I study. I think it’s because it’s soothing, and you can’t really dance to it so I’m not bopping in my seat
Have you heard the new Lady Gaga song, “You and I”? It’s totally country and I’m really into it
I love anything Dixie Chicks, Carrie Underwood, and I love the song ‘Boondocks’ by Little Big Town!
Haha I can totally bop to it…it gets awkward when I walk around my neighborhood
I love your play-list!
My sister LOVES country music — she listens to KJ97 all of the time! Some of her favorites are “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not,” “Heart Like Mine Storm Warning,” “The House That Built Me,” and “Enchanted.” 
I’m a huge fan of country music! The last song at my wedding was Toes by Zac Brown Band! I still go back to that night when I hear it
Awww cute!
If you visit Nashvegas, you better come visit Kori & me too!!!! =)
Of course!!!!
I was never a big country music fan, but for the past 2 years it’s pretty much all I listen to.
I love Miranda Lambert, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift, Gloriana, and the list goes on. You should check out Whitney Duncan. She’s one of my favorite country music artists.
I love that both you and Kath posted about Country Music today (and that Mama Pea is a listener AND that I heard “Remind Me” on my way to work. this morning!!!!) I’m a newer fan of the music as well. And while I enjoy living in the big city, listening to country makes me want to sell my Volkswagen, buy a truck and a pair of cowboy boots and drink beer outside
I’m a country music newb too! I’ve been digging Country Must Be Country Wide by Brantley Gilbert. His voice is so rough….it’s kinda hot. =P
I started liking country a few years ago and am now addicted. Knee deep is great! I also like Rascal Flatts a lot.
I like a variety of music. I love country music when I am in the mood to relax and some of my favorites are Eric Church and Blake Shelton. Now when I am going to work out that is a different story–I am all about the rap in that case. A gangsta beat really gets me going. lol.
Not a big country fan, but loveee taylor swift!
Ahhhhh COME TO NASHVILLE!!!
I go to school here smack dab in the middle of nashville, and I love it!!!! I have been a Tennessean all my life, but there is no place like Nash, especially the night life! 
Taylor Swift was at the coffee shop I go to called Fido the other day, and Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman go to the starbucks around here!!! No big deal right?? haha 
No way!! I’m coming!
I wasn’t a big country fan until I met my husband about 5 years ago, but now I listen all the time!
LOVE country music!! Brad Paisley’s “Old Alabama” is great!
I’m a huge country fan – and love lots of the songs you listed!! Dirt Road Anthem is my current favorite – it reminds me of summers growing up in a teeny town! I really like Pat Green as well, he’s my go-to Saturday around the house music
I love Taylor Swift! I saw her in concert a month ago and ‘Enchanted’ was one of my favorite songs she performed:)
Jealous!!! That is my absolute favorite song by her…except I’ve listened to it way too many times.
I lived in Nashville last year during my dietetic internship and absolutely loved it! One of my favs now is The Way You Lie by The Band Perry.
I am a HUGE country music fan. Besides broadway musicals, country is basically the only thing I listen to
I like your mix, but you need to throw some Tim Mcgraw and Garth Brooks in there 
The Dixie Chicks rock!!
Haha well these are the latest ones I like. Tim McGraw hasn’t come out with anything new recently, right?
That’s too funny, I just read Kath’s post where she mentioned country/Brad Paisley!
I’ve never really given true country music much of a chance, but I do love Americana music, which I find has a slight twang and bluesy feel to it. Other than that, I love alternative music and solo male artists like Jack Johnson and John Mayer.
I love that you included Jake Owen! I just got his new CD and haven’t stopped listening to it since! For anyone who hasn’t heard it yet, it’s definitely worth checking out
His SoundCloud page has clips of all the songs from the album: http://soundcloud.com/jakeowen
I *heart* Zac Brown, and would you believe that my husband and I just flew into Nashville this afternoon?
No way!!!!! Have fun!
I LOVE country music, thank you for all the great suggestions!!
love this list. I just became obsessed with country and I used to be one of those people that couldn’t stand it!! I’m currently obsessed with Crazy Girl by Zach Brown Band. Greatness.