50 Best Country Songs About Distance
Country tracks that capture the pull and stretch of long distance
There’s a certain weight that comes with miles between people. Not a cinematic ache, not the kind of tidy longing that pop, rock, country, and R&B songs sometimes try to wrap in neat choruses. It’s stranger than that. You’re standing in an airport parking lot or on a porch with your phone in your hand, trying to make small talk while the space between you expands in real time. The right track can land in that exact headspace, where everything feels stalled but still moving. It’s the hum of a truck engine on an empty highway, the crackle of a late-night call that cuts in and out.
Distance has a way of making moments sharper and messier. One day it’s a voice note that makes you grin in the middle of the grocery store, the next it’s scrolling through photos you should probably delete but don’t. The songs that hold up here aren’t in a rush to resolve anything. They live in the pause between seeing someone and seeing them again. You can hear it in the drawl of a verse, in the way a steel guitar drags out the tail end of a note, stretching it like time itself.
Sometimes the connection feels thin enough to snap, other times it’s stronger than when you were face to face. The mood shifts without warning, and the music follows. A fiddle can sound lonely in one moment and defiant in the next. The tracks here lean into that sway, carrying both the ache and the grit without cleaning them up. Here are the best country songs that fit the feeling of long distance.
Top 10 Country Distance Songs
1. 'I'm Already There'—Lonestar
2. 'Need You Now'—Lady A
3. 'I Can Still Make Cheyenne'—George Strait
4. 'Carrying Your Love with Me'—George Strait
5. 'On the Road Again'—Willie Nelson
6. 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix'—Glen Campbell
7. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
8. 'Come Monday'—Jimmy Buffett
9. 'Meanwhile Back at Mama's'—Tim McGraw
10. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
Classic Country Music About Being Apart #11—20
11. 'Don't Forget to Remember Me'—Carrie Underwood
12. 'Austin'—Blake Shelton
13. 'Every Mile a Memory'—Dierks Bentley
14. 'I Go Back'—Kenny Chesney
15. 'Traveling Soldier'—The Chicks
16. 'Meet Me in Montana'—Dan Seals and Marie Osmond
17. 'You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma'—David Frizzell and Shelly West
18. 'Amarillo by Morning'—George Strait
19. 'Five Hundred Miles'—Bobby Bare
20. 'Gentle on My Mind'—Glen Campbell
Country Traveling Tunes #21—30
21. 'A Place in This World'—Taylor Swift
22. 'Long Monday'—John Prine
23. 'Life Is a Highway'—Rascal Flatts
24. 'I've Been Everywhere'—Johnny Cash
25. 'Six Days on the Road'—Dave Dudley
26. 'Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses'—Kathy Mattea
27. 'Callin' Baton Rouge'—Garth Brooks
28. 'Home'—Alan Jackson
29. 'I Should Be With You'—Steve Wariner
30. 'Carolina in My Mind'—James Taylor
Country Hits About Long Distance #31—40
31. 'Sleeping Alone'—Flatland Cavalry
32. 'From a Distance'—Nanci Griffith
33. 'Where Corn Don't Grow'—Travis Tritt
34. 'Long Distance Lullaby'—Matt Stell
35. 'Come Home Soon'—SheDaisy
36. 'Long White Line'—Sturgill Simpson
37. 'Houston'—Larry Gatlin
38. 'Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man'—Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
39. 'Song for Another Time'—Old Dominion
40. 'Get Out of This Town'—Carrie Underwood
Country Songs About Separation #41—50
41. 'Don't You Wanna Stay'—Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson
42. 'Miles and Miles of You'—Aaron Watson
43. 'If I Could Only Fly'—Blaze Foley
44. 'Whiskey Lullaby'—Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
45. 'Bless the Broken Road'—Rascal Flatts
46. 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'—Willie Nelson
47. 'Right Here Waiting'—Richard Marx
48. 'God's Will'—Martina McBride
49. 'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)'—Gary Stewart
50. 'I'll Be'—Reba McEntire
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