50 Best Country Songs About End of Summer
Country Songs to Close Out the Summer Season
There’s a strange kind of ache when late August creeps in and the air starts to lose its heat. You’re still walking barefoot through grass that crunches under the sun, but the evenings feel different. There’s a shift you can’t name, something in the sky that makes music hit harder. Maybe you're driving with the windows down, feeling the mix of warm wind and that first cool breeze, or sitting in a lawn chair watching the last fireflies while a half-empty cooler sweats beside you. These moments live in certain songs, the kind that lean into the bittersweet side of fading light and worn-out days.
End-of-summer tracks aren’t clean or neatly wrapped up. They’re a little sunburned, maybe half-drunk on cheap beer, still carrying the dust from that last festival or the grit from a dirt road you didn’t mean to take. They hold a tired happiness, one that knows the best nights are already behind you but still pretends there’s one more to come. It’s the same thread that runs through pop, rock, country, and R&B songs when they’re built for endings, the kind where you sing along louder because you know the season’s almost gone.
Some of these songs feel like watching the sun sink into a lake without speaking. Others hit like the quiet after a tailgate when everyone’s gone and the cicadas have taken over the air. They’re not here to tell you everything will stay the same. They lean into the fading and make it sting in the best way. Here are the best country songs for the end of summer.
Top 10 Country Summer Songs
1. 'A Little More Summertime'—Jason Aldean
2. 'Summertime'—Kenny Chesney
3. 'Strawberry Wine'—Deana Carter
4. 'The Boys of Fall'—Kenny Chesney
5. 'Summers End'—John Prine
6. 'Pontoon'—Little Big Town
7. 'Summertime Blues'—Alan Jackson
8. 'Summer's Gone'—Father John Misty
9. 'Augusta'—Dave Loggins
10. 'Chill of an Early Fall'—George Strait
Country Music for Late Summer #11—20
11. 'I'm Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin' Song)'—Brad Paisley
12. 'A Little More Summertime'—Jason Aldean
13. 'Summer's Comin''—Clint Black
14. 'Beat This Summer'—Brad Paisley
15. 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night'—Jake Owen
16. 'When the Sun Goes Down'—Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker
17. 'Long Hot Summer'—Keith Urban
18. 'Redneck Yacht Club'—Craig Morgan
19. 'Some Beach'—Blake Shelton
20. 'Chattahoochee'—Alan Jackson
Country Songs about Summer Memories #21—30
21. 'Vacation'—Thomas Rhett
22. 'Toes'—Zac Brown Band
23. 'Harvest Time'—Luke Bryan
24. 'All Summer Long'—Kid Rock
25. 'Like a Summer Thursday'—Townes Van Zandt
26. 'I Was on a Boat That Day'—Old Dominion
27. 'Summer Fever'—Little Big Town
28. 'The Long Way'—Brett Eldredge
29. 'Sunshine and Summertime'—Faith Hill
30. 'Something Like That'—Tim McGraw
Country Music for Summer Evenings #31—40
31. 'Summer Nights'—Rascal Flatts
32. 'No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems'—Kenny Chesney
33. 'Dancin' in the Country'—Tyler Hubbard
34. 'Day Drinking'—Little Big Town
35. 'Cruise'—Florida Georgia Line
36. 'Something in the Orange'—Zach Bryan
37. 'Hurricane'—Luke Combs
38. 'Margaritaville'—Jimmy Buffett
39. 'Good Directions'—Billy Currington
40. 'Body Like a Back Road'—Sam Hunt
More Country Songs for Summer's End #41—50
41. 'Springsteen'—Eric Church
42. 'Somewhere on a Beach'—Dierks Bentley
43. 'Pray for Rain'—Cody Johnson
44. 'Water'—Brad Paisley
45. 'The Dreaming Fields'—Trisha Yearwood
46. 'Last Summer'—Blake Shelton
47. 'Long Hot Summer Days'—John Hartford
48. 'Augusta'—Dave Loggins
49. 'Tequila Sundown'—Jon Wolfe
50. 'I Still Miss Someone'—Johnny Cash
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