50 Best Country Songs About Driving
Driving Country Songs for Open Road Playlists
There’s a certain kind of quiet that settles in when the miles start stacking up. Not silence exactly, but that steady hum of tires against pavement, the air pushing in through a half-open window, a thermos of coffee rattling in the cup holder. Maybe the sun’s climbing over the horizon, maybe you’re chasing the tail end of it, and somewhere in the middle of the motion the right song hits. It pulls the road in tighter, turns a stretch of highway into something that feels bigger, like you’ve stepped into a scene from a life you almost recognize.
The best tracks for that space don’t rush to fill it with fireworks. They let the verses stretch, breathe, settle into the rhythm of the ride. There’s something about twang paired with a slow-build chorus that catches the way the landscape changes without warning. One minute it’s all backroads and fields, the next it’s a cluster of gas stations and neon signs fading into the rearview. Songs that ride the line between comfort and restlessness have been showing up for decades, tucked between pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that all understand the pull of a moving horizon.
Not every drive is smooth. Some are aimless, some feel like an escape, some hit with the weight of leaving something behind. The right song can sit in that headspace without trying to fix it, and in the quiet moments between verses you start to realize why it’s been following you down the road. Here are the best country songs for long drives.
Top 10 Country Driving Songs
1. 'On the Road Again'—Willie Nelson
2. 'Life Is a Highway'—Rascal Flatts
3. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
4. 'King of the Road'—Roger Miller
5. 'Cruise'—Florida Georgia Line
6. 'East Bound and Down'—Jerry Reed
7. 'I've Been Everywhere'—Johnny Cash
8. 'I Drive Your Truck'—Lee Brice
9. 'Six Days on the Road'—Dave Dudley
10. 'Drivin' My Life Away'—Eddie Rabbitt
Country Songs About Cars and Trucks #11—20
11. 'Highway Don't Care'—Tim McGraw, Taylor Swift, and Keith Urban
12. 'Fast Car'—Luke Combs
13. 'Guitars, Cadillacs'—Dwight Yoakam
14. 'Pickup Man'—Joe Diffie
15. 'Mud on the Tires'—Brad Paisley
16. 'Somethin' 'Bout a Truck'—Kip Moore
17. 'Amarillo by Morning'—George Strait
18. 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road'—Lucinda Williams
19. 'Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses'—Kathy Mattea
20. 'Wagon Wheel'—Darius Rucker
Essential Country Songs for a Drive #21—30
21. 'Highway Vagabond'—Miranda Lambert
22. 'Dirt Road Anthem'—Jason Aldean
23. 'Take a Little Ride'—Jason Aldean
24. 'We Rode in Trucks'—Luke Bryan
25. 'Heads Carolina, Tails California'—Jo Dee Messina
26. 'Mercury Blues'—Alan Jackson
27. 'Drive (for Daddy Gene)'—Alan Jackson
28. 'Long White Line'—Sturgill Simpson
29. 'Talladega'—Eric Church
30. 'The Road Goes on Forever'—Robert Earl Keen
Country Songs About Hitting the Road #31—40
31. 'Traveller'—Chris Stapleton
32. 'Let's Go to Vegas'—Faith Hill
33. 'Hillbilly Highway'—Steve Earle
34. 'Looking at the World Through a Windshield'—Son Volt
35. 'Highway Boys'—Zach Bryan
36. '80s Mercedes'—Maren Morris
37. 'Take a Back Road'—Rodney Atkins
38. 'Lost Highway'—Hank Williams
39. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man'—Waylon Jennings
40. 'That Ain't My Truck'—Rhett Akins
Songs for Country Road Trips #41—50
41. 'Long Drive Home'—Turnpike Troubadours
42. 'Highway Queen'—Nikki Lane
43. 'One Piece at a Time'—Johnny Cash
44. 'Miles and Miles of Texas'—Asleep at the Wheel
45. 'My Old Chevy'—Brenn Hill
46. 'I'm Movin' On'—Hank Snow
47. 'Red Dirt Road'—Brooks & Dunn
48. 'Chevy Van'—Sammy Johns
49. 'Hot Rod Lincoln'—Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
50. 'I'm in a Hurry (And Don't Know Why)'—Alabama
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