50 Best Country Songs About Good Life
Country Music Celebrating the Good Life
There’s a certain mood that comes with a day that feels wide open. Sun already high, windows down, maybe the scent of cut grass hanging in the air. You’ve got nothing to chase except the moment you’re standing in, and the right track makes it stretch a little longer. It might be a slow burn with a steel guitar sliding lazy in the background, or a fiddle kicking up dust like a backroad in summer. Those songs don’t rush you into meaning. They stay put and let the small things feel big.
It’s not all picture-perfect scenes with sunsets and porch swings. Sometimes the good life looks like dirt on your jeans, warm beer in a cooler, and music from a pickup’s half-busted speakers competing with crickets. It’s the sound of someone laughing through a story they’ve told a hundred times, or a line that hits in a way you never saw coming. The best of these tracks mix the looseness of a weekend with a heartbeat of gratitude running underneath, something you feel in your chest before you catch it in the lyrics.
You can hear it in the way artists weave the everyday into something worth holding onto. It’s the overlap where pop, rock, country, and R&B songs sometimes land, though here it’s steeped in steel strings and twang. The list ahead pulls together tracks that carry that easygoing energy and hold it steady for a while. Here are the best country songs for living the good life.
Top 10 Country Life Songs
1. 'It's a Great Day to Be Alive'—Travis Tritt
2. 'Humble and Kind'—Tim McGraw
3. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
4. 'Live Like You Were Dying'—Tim McGraw
5. 'I Hope You Dance'—Lee Ann Womack
6. 'Buy Dirt'—Jordan Davis ft. Luke Bryan
7. 'Happy Does'—Kenny Chesney
8. 'I'm Alive'—Kenny Chesney
9. 'Getting Good'—Lauren Alaina
10. 'Don't Blink'—Kenny Chesney
Country Music Hits About Good Living #11—20
11. 'Better Days'—Niko Moon
12. 'Bless the Broken Road'—Rascal Flatts
13. 'Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)'—Gary Allan
14. 'Doin' This'—Luke Combs
15. 'Young'—Kenny Chesney
16. 'The Good Life'—Niko Moon
17. 'Life Part of Livin''—Chase Rice
18. 'This'—Darius Rucker
19. 'Days Go By'—Keith Urban
20. 'The Climb'—Miley Cyrus
Country Songs About Finding Joy #21—30
21. 'Who I Am'—Jessica Andrews
22. 'Alright'—Darius Rucker
23. 'I Could Not Ask for More'—Sara Evans
24. 'Life Is Good'—Jo Dee Messina
25. 'Thank God I'm a Country Boy'—John Denver
26. 'My Wish'—Rascal Flatts
27. 'Happy'—HARDY
28. 'Living on Love'—Alan Jackson
29. 'Choices'—George Jones
30. 'The Good Stuff'—Kenny Chesney
Country Songs About Happiness #31—40
31. 'I'm Gonna Be Somebody'—Travis Tritt
32. 'The Impossible Dream (The Quest)'—Glen Campbell
33. 'It Won't Always Be Like This'—Carly Pearce
34. 'The Journey of Your Life'—Jake Owen
35. 'The Luckiest'—Ben Folds
36. 'Live or Die Trying'—Aaron Watson
37. 'Getting By with a Little Help from My Friends'—Willie Nelson
38. 'Something to Be Proud Of'—Montgomery Gentry
39. 'My Life'—The Chicks
40. 'When It Rains, It Pours'—Luke Combs
Country Songs About Good Times #41—50
41. 'Days of Gold'—Jake Owen
42. 'The Simple Life'—Ricky Skaggs
43. 'Simple Man'—Lynyrd Skynyrd
44. 'Follow Your Arrow'—Kacey Musgraves
45. 'The Bull'—Kip Moore
46. 'I Don't Want This Night to End'—Luke Bryan
47. 'Islands in the Stream'—Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
48. 'Cruise'—Florida Georgia Line
49. 'Barefoot Blue Jean Night'—Jake Owen
50. 'I Just Got Started Lovin' You'—James Otto
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