50 Best Country Songs About Fort Worth
Country Tracks that Capture the Spirit of Fort Worth
There’s a particular kind of grit in Fort Worth that seeps into the music tied to it. Not a postcard version of cowboy charm, but the kind that smells like dust and barbecue smoke after sundown. You picture neon flickering outside a roadside bar, maybe a freight train groaning somewhere past the city limits. A steel guitar can make the air feel heavy in a way that even pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can’t fake. The city isn’t frozen in some Wild West myth, but it carries the weight of that history in the way a song can linger after the last note fades.
Some tracks land like a Friday night on Exchange Avenue with laughter spilling out of open doors. Others sound like a long drive west on I-30 with nothing but the horizon and the hum of tires. These are songs that keep Fort Worth in their bones without sugarcoating it. They’ve got the edges left on, the imperfections that make them ring truer than anything polished up for radio gloss. You can almost hear the clink of longneck bottles between verses or feel the low rumble of bass through a cracked dancehall floor.
It’s not all nostalgia and it’s not all romance. Sometimes the city shows up in a line or two that sneaks into your head hours later. Other times it’s right there in the chorus, big and proud like a stage lit up for the headliner at Billy Bob’s. These tracks hold that mix of swagger and dust, and they’ve earned a place in the lineup that follows. Here are the best country songs tied to Fort Worth.
Top 10 Fort Worth Country Songs
1. 'Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind'—George Strait
2. 'West of Fort Worth'—Grant Gilbert
3. 'Fort Worth'—Casey Donahew
4. 'Stockyards'—Casey Donahew
5. 'Cowboy Kind of Way'—Drake Milligan
6. 'The Fireman'—George Strait
7. 'That's Texas'—Cody Johnson
8. 'Waltz Across Texas'—Ernest Tubb
9. 'Somewhere Down in Texas'—Jason Boland & The Stragglers
10. 'The Road Goes On Forever'—Robert Earl Keen
Texas Country Music References #11—20
11. 'I'll Sing About Mine'—Adam Hood
12. 'July In Cheyenne (Song For Lane's Momma)'—Aaron Watson
13. 'Dreams and Gasoline'—Rob Baird
14. 'Ragged As the Road'—Reckless Kelly
15. 'Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues'—Parker McCollum
16. 'Snake Farm'—Ray Wylie Hubbard
17. 'Cast No Stones'—Cody Jinks
18. 'Angry All The Time'—Bruce Robison
19. 'My Feet Don't Touch the Ground'—Brandon Jenkins
20. 'Wave on Wave'—Pat Green
Country Songs with a Texas Theme #21—30
21. 'Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)'—Waylon Jennings
22. 'If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band)'—Alabama
23. 'God Blessed Texas'—Little Texas
24. 'El Paso'—Marty Robbins
25. 'If It Wasn't For Texas'—George Strait
26. 'Austin'—Blake Shelton
27. 'Galveston'—Glen Campbell
28. 'The Bluest Eyes in Texas'—Restless Heart
29. 'Deep in the Heart of Texas'—Gene Autry
30. 'My Home's In Alabama'—Alabama
Texas and Red Dirt Country Music Favorites #31—40
31. 'Thunderbird Will Do Just Fine'—Eleven Hundred Springs
32. 'Lord Loves the Drinkin Man'—Kevin Fowler
33. 'Wear My Ring'—Bart Crow
34. 'Guinevere'—Eli Young Band
35. 'Pearl Snaps'—Jason Boland & The Stragglers
36. 'Loving County'—Charlie Robison
37. 'Gin, Smoke, Lies'—Turnpike Troubadours
38. 'The Everclear Song'—Roger Creager
39. 'George's Bar'—Pat Green
40. 'Nashville Blues'—Cory Morrow
Top Fort Worth Inspired Country Music #41—50
41. 'Biloxi'—Jack Ingram
42. 'Vancouver'—Reckless Kelly
43. 'She Likes the Beatles'—William Clark Green
44. 'Tonight's Not The Night (for Goodbye)'—Randy Rogers Band
45. 'My Hometown'—Charlie Robison
46. 'The Chair'—George Strait
47. 'My Texas'—Josh Abbott Band
48. 'I'm Country'—Chris LeDoux
49. 'Honky Tonk Saturday Night'—George Strait
50. 'Take Me To Texas'—George Strait
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