50 Best Country Songs About Florida
Country music inspired by Florida landscapes and stories
There’s a strange mix of heat and nostalgia that sticks to you in Florida. Salt in the air, citrus groves in the distance, roadside gator farms that feel frozen in time. Country tracks rooted in the state don’t chase postcard perfection. They lean into the stickiness, the long stretches of highway where the radio signal fades and comes back. Some songs smell like sunscreen and diesel. Others sound like they were written on a screened porch during a thunderstorm that knocked the power out. Florida isn’t a backdrop here. It’s the thing that shapes the rhythm, colors the verses, and tilts the mood.
This isn’t the Florida that exists in tourist brochures. It’s the one where fishing boats leave before sunrise, where small-town diners still serve pie for breakfast, where the light hits different on the Gulf than it does on the Atlantic. The music reflects that split personality. You get stories that feel laid-back until a line cuts through like a hook in the water. There’s space for the beach crowd and the backroad wanderer, for lazy afternoons that slip into nights humming with neon and live bands by the water. In between, you can hear how the place keeps shifting under the weight of its own contradictions.
Country artists have been capturing that Florida energy for years, sometimes blending in the sway of Gulf Coast blues or the bounce of island rhythms. It’s the same pull that’s drawn pop, rock, country, and R&B songs to nod toward the state in their own ways. But here, the focus stays locked on twang, steel strings, and the way Southern storytelling collides with saltwater edges. These tracks pull you into Florida’s backroads and shorelines without softening the rough edges. Here are the best country songs that tap into the spirit of Florida.
Top 10 Florida Country Songs
1. 'Margaritaville'—Jimmy Buffett
2. 'Florida Georgia Line'—Florida Georgia Line
3. 'When the Sun Goes Down'—Kenny Chesney featuring Uncle Kracker
4. 'Toes'—Zac Brown Band
5. 'Seminole Wind'—John Anderson
6. 'The Everglades'—Waylon Jennings
7. 'Florida Boy Forever'—Brian Kelley
8. 'Sunshine State of Mind'—Brian Kelley
9. 'Panama City'—Corey Smith
10. 'Florida'—Patty Griffin
Florida Country Music Choices #11—20
11. 'Beach Cowboy'—Brian Kelley
12. 'Key West'—Florida Georgia Line
13. 'Miami, My Amy'—Keith Whitley
14. 'Jacksonville'—Josh Turner
15. 'Tallahassee Lassie'—Freddy Cannon
16. 'Daytona Nights'—Tanner Usrey
17. 'A1A'—Jimmy Buffett
18. 'Back to the Island'—Jimmy Buffett
19. 'Southern Voice'—Tim McGraw
20. 'The Road Goes on Forever'—Robert Earl Keen
Florida Country Music for Fans #21—30
21. 'Anywhere But Here'—Chris Cagle
22. 'Bury Me in Dixie'—Riley Green
23. 'Gulf Coast Highway'—Darius Rucker
24. 'Sailing to Florida'—Jerry Jeff Walker
25. 'Last Mango in Paris'—Jimmy Buffett
26. 'Florida Blues'—Blind Blake
27. 'Florida Sunshine'—Gretchen Wilson
28. 'Florida Time'—Jake Owen
29. 'I Love My Country'—Florida Georgia Line
30. 'Floridays'—Jimmy Buffett
More Florida Country Songs to Hear #31—40
31. 'Tallahassee'—Brett Eldredge
32. 'Down on the Gulf Coast'—Zac Brown Band
33. 'Florida Kiss'—Chase Rice
34. 'All I Need Is You'—Chris Janson
35. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia'—The Charlie Daniels Band
36. 'Gator Country'—Molly Hatchet
37. 'Tryin' to Reason With the Hurricane Season'—Jimmy Buffett
38. 'The South'—The Cadillac Three featuring Florida Georgia Line, Dierks Bentley, and Mike Eli
39. 'My Old Florida Home'—Chris Stapleton
40. 'Havana Daydreamin'—Jimmy Buffett
Discover New Florida Country Songs #41—50
41. 'Daytona'—Keith Urban
42. 'Nothin' but Taillights'—Frankie Ballard
43. 'Take Me Back to Florida'—Brett Young
44. 'That Was Us'—Riley Green
45. 'Jacksonville'—Brandon Flowers
46. 'Barefoot Blues'—Kenny Chesney
47. 'Florida'—Garth Brooks
48. 'The Florida Shuffle'—The Florida Boys
49. 'Hometown'—Sam Hunt
50. 'I'm from the Country'—Tracy Byrd
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