50 Best Country Songs About Iowa
Country Music Celebrating Iowa Landscapes and Life
There’s a certain feeling tied to Iowa that comes through in the right song. It’s not all sweeping prairies and postcard sunsets. There’s grit in the silos, quiet in the cornfields, long roads that seem to stretch forever until they suddenly don’t. You hear it in the crack of a guitar string before the first verse. In the drawl of a voice that knows what an empty highway sounds like at midnight. These tracks don’t paint Iowa as some frozen-in-time snapshot. They live in the real version, the one where dust kicks up on the gravel and the wind cuts across an open stretch in late fall.
The stories in these songs tend to hang in the space between nostalgia and stubborn pride. Some are rooted in small-town kitchens and others in crowded county fairs, sweat sticking under the brim of a hat. A few cut deeper, taking on the kind of loss that lingers when you’ve left but can’t shake the feeling you’re still there. There’s a mix of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that circle the same patch of land in different ways, each pulling out a detail the others leave behind. Iowa shows up as a place you know in your bones even if you’ve only driven through once.
Not every track treats it with reverence. Some lean into the rowdy nights, the unpaved roads, the kind of laughter that only happens far from city lights. Others slow down until the silence gets so thick you hear your own heartbeat. All of them find their own truth in the state’s flat lines and river bends. Here are the best country songs about Iowa.
Top 10 Iowa Country Songs
1. 'Iowa'—Paisley Fields
2. 'This is Iowa'—Zach Svoboda
3. 'It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines'—Tom T. Hall
4. 'Iowa Waltz'—Greg Brown
5. 'On a Bus to St. Cloud'—Trisha Yearwood
6. 'Stranded in Iowa'—Manfred Mann's Earth Band
7. 'Farmer's Blues'—Merle Haggard and Marty Stuart
8. 'Midwestern Farmers Daughter'—Margo Price
9. 'Amarillo Sky'—Jason Aldean
10. 'International Harvester'—Craig Morgan
Iowa Rural Life Country Music #11—20
11. 'Where the Green Grass Grows'—Tim McGraw
12. 'Rain is a Good Thing'—Luke Bryan
13. 'Where Corn Don't Grow'—Waylon Jennings
14. 'A Man on a Tractor'—Rodney Atkins
15. 'She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy'—Kenny Chesney
16. 'Last of a Dying Breed'—Neal McCoy
17. 'Heartland'—George Strait
18. 'Fly Over States'—Jason Aldean
19. 'Down on the Farm'—Tim McGraw
20. 'Here's to the Farmer'—Luke Bryan
Country Songs About Iowa Farms #21—30
21. 'John Deere Tractor'—The Judds
22. 'Daddy Won't Sell the Farm'—Montgomery Gentry
23. 'Harvest Ain't Just Corn'—The Country Sky
24. 'The Iowa Corn Song'—Percy Faith
25. 'Midwest Lullaby'—Sons of the Pioneers
26. 'Corn'—Blake Shelton
27. 'Fields of Gold'—Eva Cassidy
28. 'A Simple Man'—Lynyrd Skynyrd
29. 'Thank God I’m a Country Boy'—John Denver
30. 'Country Girl (Shake It for Me)'—Luke Bryan
Country Music Capturing Iowa's Vibe #31—40
31. 'Family Tradition'—Hank Williams Jr.
32. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads'—John Denver
33. 'Where I Come From'—Alan Jackson
34. 'The Dirt Road Anthem'—Jason Aldean
35. 'God’s Country'—Blake Shelton
36. 'Raised on Country'—Chris Young
37. 'All American Girl'—Carrie Underwood
38. 'Born to Boogie'—Hank Williams Jr.
39. 'Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)'—Dierks Bentley
40. 'I'm from the Country'—Tracy Byrd
Finding Iowa in Country Music #41—50
41. 'Small Town Boy'—Dustin Lynch
42. 'The Boys and the Girls Are Gone'—Hailey Whitters
43. 'In a Field Somewhere'—Hailey Whitters
44. 'Small Town USA'—Justin Moore
45. 'My Town'—Montgomery Gentry
46. 'Home Sweet Home'—Mötley Crüe
47. 'Goin' Back to Georgia'—Josh Turner
48. 'The House That Built Me'—Miranda Lambert
49. 'My Home’s in Indiana'—The Judds
50. 'Heart Like a Hometown'—Keith Urban
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