50 Best Country Songs About Arkansas
Best Country Songs Set in Arkansas
There’s a distinct kind of heat in Arkansas that sticks to you. It’s not only the weather. It’s the stretch of Delta land that hums under your feet, the quiet weight of a small town, the gravel roads you swear you could drive blindfolded, and the way the sun falls low and orange across a backyard that’s held a hundred cookouts and a few grudges. Some songs catch that weight. They don’t explain Arkansas. They sit in it. They pull from the soil and the porch steps and the old radios that never quite get the static out.
Country music tends to hang around this place like the humidity. Not polished, not performative. Even the proud songs have a little dirt under the fingernails. They know the difference between being from somewhere and being of it. And Arkansas has always had a strange pull. It shows up in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that can’t quite leave it alone. Sometimes it’s a punchline. Other times it’s a postcard. But the best ones, the ones that matter, lean into the contradictions and let the place sprawl the way it actually does.
This isn’t about romanticizing the state or turning it into a metaphor. It’s about music that lands like the smell of fried catfish drifting in through a screen door. Music that knows the difference between a family gathering and a family fight. There’s twang and pride, sure, but there’s also grit and a whole lot of second thoughts. These songs hold all of that without trying to clean it up. Here are the best country songs that carry the sound and spirit of Arkansas.
Top 10 Arkansas Songs
1. 'Arkansas'—Chris Stapleton
2. 'Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)'—Wayland Holyfield
3. 'A Little Past Little Rock'—Lee Ann Womack
4. 'Five Feet High and Rising'—Johnny Cash
5. 'Oh, Arkansas'—Terry Rose and Gary Klaff
6. 'The Arkansas Traveler'—Official State Historic Song
7. 'Goin' Back to Arkansas'—Big Bill Broonzy
8. 'Home'—Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
9. 'Arkansas Lovin' Man'—Johnny Cash
10. 'Arkansas Farmboy'—Glen Campbell
Arkansas Country Music Hits #11—20
11. 'Arkansas Heat'—Gossip
12. 'Running Out of Hope, Arkansas'—Brennen Leigh
13. 'The Lord God Bird'—Sufjan Stevens
14. 'Sweet Southern Comfort'—Buddy Jewell
15. 'The One on the Right Is on the Left'—Johnny Cash
16. 'I Can See Arkansas'—Anne Murray
17. 'Little Rock'—Collin Raye
18. 'Arkansas'—Damien Jurado
19. 'I'm a Dancin' Fool'—Little Rock
20. 'Arkansas Diamond'—Waylon Wyatt
Country Songs About Arkansas #21—30
21. 'You Made Me'—Kelsey Lamb
22. 'Light On In The Kitchen'—Ashley McBryde
23. 'Heart and Soul'—Conway Twitty
24. 'Poor Old Dirt Farmer'—Levon Helm
25. 'Keep Up With a Cowgirl'—Ashley McBryde
26. 'Rattlesnake Preacher'—Ashley McBryde
27. 'Arkansas Blues'—Bessie Smith
28. 'Song of the Patriot'—Johnny Cash
29. 'Roll On'—Alabama
30. 'Red Dirt Girl'—Emmylou Harris
Best Arkansas Country Songs #31—40
31. 'The Devil I Know'—Ashley McBryde
32. 'This Is My Dirt'—Justin Moore
33. 'Where the Bluebird Sings'—Alabama
34. 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'—The Band
35. 'Long Line Rider'—The Dillards
36. 'Jacksonville'—The Cadillac Three
37. 'Going to Leave Ol' Arkansas'—J. W. Ward
38. 'Arkansas Lovin' Man'—Waylon Jennings
39. 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place'—The Animals
40. 'Let Me Bring My Clothes Back Home'—Irving Jones
More Country Songs About Arkansas #41—50
41. 'Arkansas Boogie'—Louis Jordan
42. 'Helena'—The Mamas & the Papas
43. 'Fayetteville'—Marty Robbins
44. 'Hot Springs'—The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
45. 'Jonesboro'—The Carter Family
46. 'Little Rock'—Reba McEntire
47. 'Pine Bluff'—The Osborne Brothers
48. 'Texarkana Baby'—Eddy Arnold
49. 'Ozark Mountain Jubilee'—The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
50. 'Where the Soul of a Man Never Dies'—Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys
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