50 Best Country Songs About Being Free
Country Tracks That Capture the Feeling of Freedom
There’s a certain rush that hits when you lean into a wide-open road with no set plan. It’s not pure thrill, not pure relief, but something caught in between. You might be behind the wheel on a half-broken highway or standing under a sky that feels too big to fit inside your chest, and the right song drifts in. The kind that makes you breathe deeper without realizing it. The chords stretch out like they have nowhere to be, the words spill loose without worrying about where they’ll land. These tracks carry the grit of real air in your lungs and the pull of a horizon you can’t quite touch.
Freedom isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s quiet enough to hear your own boots crunch in gravel or the hum of an engine fading into dusk. Other times it’s as rowdy as a crowd pressed shoulder to shoulder in a roadside bar, singing the same line too many times. The best ones tap into the whole range of that feeling. You hear it in pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, but there’s something in country that holds onto it a little longer. The twang hangs in the air like dust kicked up from a dirt road. It lingers, even when the night moves on.
Not every moment of freedom feels clean or easy. Some are messy, bittersweet, half-celebration and half-letting go. These songs grab that tangled feeling and play it loud enough to rattle the inside of your head. Here are the best country songs that live in the space where freedom takes shape.
Top 10 Country Songs
1. 'Wide Open Spaces'—The Chicks
2. 'I'm Gonna Miss Her'—Brad Paisley
3. 'The Cowboy Rides Away'—George Strait
4. 'Something to Be Proud Of'—Montgomery Gentry
5. 'I Hope You Dance'—Lee Ann Womack
6. 'American Soldier'—Toby Keith
7. 'Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)'—Dierks Bentley
8. 'Chicken Fried'—Zac Brown Band
9. 'Fast Car'—Luke Combs
10. 'Independence Day'—Martina McBride
Finding Country Songs for Freedom #11—20
11. 'My Town'—Montgomery Gentry
12. 'Free'—Zac Brown Band
13. 'American Heart'—Faith Hill
14. 'Ragged Old Flag'—Johnny Cash
15. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
16. 'The Pill'—Loretta Lynn
17. 'Fly Over States'—Jason Aldean
18. 'Red Dirt Road'—Brooks & Dunn
19. 'Homegrown'—Zac Brown Band
20. 'Only in America'—Brooks & Dunn
Country Songs About Independence #21—30
21. 'A Pirate Looks at Forty'—Jimmy Buffett
22. 'These Days'—Rascal Flatts
23. 'Born to Fly'—Sara Evans
24. 'Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly'—Aaron Tippin
25. 'God Bless the U.S.A.'—Lee Greenwood
26. 'American Kids'—Kenny Chesney
27. 'Goodbye Earl'—The Chicks
28. 'Follow Your Arrow'—Kacey Musgraves
29. 'I Walk the Line'—Johnny Cash
30. 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)'—Toby Keith
List of Country Songs About Freedom #31—40
31. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
32. 'Travelin' Soldier'—The Chicks
33. 'American Saturday Night'—Brad Paisley
34. 'The Long Way'—Brett Eldredge
35. 'Long Live'—Florida Georgia Line
36. 'Live Like You Were Dying'—Tim McGraw
37. 'Blown Away'—Carrie Underwood
38. 'The Fighter'—Keith Urban
39. 'This Is My Country'—The Chicks
40. 'Let 'Em In'—Paul McCartney and Wings
More Country Songs About Independence #41—50
41. 'Red, White & Blue'—Lynyrd Skynyrd
42. 'Some Gave All'—Billy Ray Cyrus
43. 'Simple Man'—Lynyrd Skynyrd
44. 'Free Bird'—Lynyrd Skynyrd
45. 'Home'—Dierks Bentley
46. 'I'm America'—Billy Ray Cyrus
47. 'Where I Come From'—Montgomery Gentry
48. 'God's Country'—Blake Shelton
49. 'My Church'—Maren Morris
50. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man'—Waylon Jennings
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