50 Best Country Songs About Going Home
Country Music That Feels Like Heading Back Home
There’s a certain pull that hits when you’re on the way back to where it all started. It’s not pure nostalgia, not full relief, but something heavier sitting in the middle. Maybe you’re staring out the window as the miles fold back, or you’re hitting that last stretch of a drive where every landmark feels like an old inside joke. The right track can catch you in that quiet swirl, the one where the past and present stack on top of each other. You’re in motion, but part of you is already at the kitchen table or leaning on the fence in the backyard.
Nobody rolls back into town like a movie scene with perfect lighting and a cheerful wave. Sometimes it’s awkward, like stepping into a room you know but finding the furniture all moved around. The air smells familiar but a little different, and your head starts sorting through memories you didn’t plan to unpack. Then the right song drops in, turning that drive or flight into something bigger. Could be Kacey Musgraves letting a melody drift like open fields, or Chris Stapleton giving the moment grit and weight. You hear pieces of yourself in it, pieces that got left behind but never really went anywhere.
Homecomings can be messy or quiet or way too loud. They can wrap around you or push you to figure out what you’ve been carrying all this time. These are the tracks that hold that strange energy, the ones that make the return trip feel alive in a way nothing else does. In the same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs can shape a road trip or a late night, these country picks turn going back into something you can hear as much as you can feel. Here are the best country songs for heading home.
Top 10 Going Home Country Songs
1. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
2. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
3. 'I'm Already There'—Lonestar
4. 'Meanwhile Back at Mama's'—Tim McGraw featuring Faith Hill
5. 'My Town'—Montgomery Gentry
6. 'Home'—Blake Shelton
7. 'Coming Home'—Old Dominion
8. 'I Drive Your Truck'—Lee Brice
9. 'Goin' Home'—Kenny Chesney
10. 'Don't Blink'—Kenny Chesney
Country Songs About Returning Home #11—20
11. 'Small Town Boy'—Dustin Lynch
12. 'Hometown Girl'—Thomas Rhett
13. 'My Old Kentucky Home'—Randy Newman
14. 'Homegrown'—Zac Brown Band
15. 'Sweet Annie'—Zac Brown Band
16. 'Carolina'—Parmalee
17. 'Raised On Country'—Chris Young
18. 'My Kinda Party'—Jason Aldean
19. 'Southern Comfort Zone'—Brad Paisley
20. 'Where I Come From'—Alan Jackson
Country Songs About Hometown Roots #21—30
21. 'God's Country'—Blake Shelton
22. 'Dirt Road Anthem'—Jason Aldean
23. 'Something About a Truck'—Kip Moore
24. 'Backwoods'—Justin Moore
25. 'Where I Belong'—Rachel Farley
26. 'I Go Back'—Kenny Chesney
27. 'Home'—Dierks Bentley
28. 'Back Home'—Kacey Musgraves
29. 'Hometown'—Sam Hunt
30. 'My Hometown'—Charlie Robison
Country Music Hits About Home #31—40
31. 'I'm From the Country'—Tracy Byrd
32. 'Small Town USA'—Justin Moore
33. 'Hometown'—Stephen Wilson Jr.
34. 'Back to My Roots'—Jay Smith
35. 'Roots'—Zac Brown Band
36. 'Austin'—Blake Shelton
37. 'Amarillo by Morning'—George Strait
38. 'Tulsa Time'—Don Williams
39. 'El Paso'—Marty Robbins
40. 'My Tennessee Mountain Home'—Dolly Parton
Country Songs About Where We Belong #41—50
41. 'Family'—LeAnn Rimes
42. 'Family Tradition'—Hank Williams, Jr.
43. 'Daddy Sang Bass'—Johnny Cash
44. 'Family Table'—Zac Brown Band
45. 'In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)'—Dolly Parton
46. 'Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)'—The Judds
47. 'Family'—Hailey Whitters
48. 'Family Is Family'—Kacey Musgraves
49. 'Hometown'—LOCASH
50. 'I'm Comin' Home'—Murder by Death
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