50 Best Country Songs About Minnesota
Top Country Minnesota Songs
There’s a strange pull that Minnesota has in country music. It shows up in lyrics like a backdrop for long roads, frozen mornings, and quiet towns that feel bigger in memory than they do in real life. The state works as shorthand for distance, for something left behind, or for that kind of wide sky you only notice once you’ve driven past the last exit for miles. These tracks don’t always spell it out directly, but the spirit slips through in the way a fiddle bends or a lyric lands like cold air on your face.
Plenty of artists dip into Minnesota like it’s a postcard they’ve kept in their pocket. Sometimes it’s nostalgia, sometimes it’s heartbreak, sometimes it’s a strange mix that refuses to settle into one mood. Country music has its own way of holding that space, but you’ll also find pop, rock, country, and R&B songs crossing into the same territory. Not every track lays out the geography in detail. Some lean on the name as a feeling, and it works, because certain places carry more weight than the syllables they take up.
So the list ends up wider than expected. Some of these cuts use Minnesota as a backdrop, some only name-drop it, and some bend the theme until it fits anyway. It doesn’t matter if the story is literal or if the state stands in as a metaphor. What holds them together is the way they capture that particular kind of restless energy tied to a place people leave, return to, or carry around like a ghost. Here are the best country songs about Minnesota.
Top 10 Minnesota Country Songs
1. 'Girl from the North Country' by Bob Dylan
2. 'Minnesota' by Adrian Nunez
3. 'On a Bus to St. Cloud' by Trisha Yearwood
4. 'Duluth' by Trampled by Turtles
5. 'The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota' by Weird Al Yankovic
6. 'God Bless the U.S.A.' by Lee Greenwood
7. 'Minnesota Homegrown' by The Heavy Set
8. 'I Like It in Duluth' by The Moose Wallow Ramblers
9. 'Minnesoter' by The Dandy Warhols
10. 'Highway 61 Revisited' by Bob Dylan
Minnesota Inspired Country Songs #11 to 20
11. 'Big River' by Johnny Cash
12. 'Minnesota' by Northern Light
13. 'Minnesota Pride' by White Iron Band
14. 'Minnesota Polka' by The Gear Daddies
15. 'Fast Times in Minnesota' by Jeremy Messersmith
16. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
17. 'Sweet Part of the City' by The Hold Steady
18. 'I'm a Rambler, I'm a Gambler' by The Stanley Brothers
19. 'Mississippi' by Rosanne Cash
20. 'Redneck Yacht Club' by Craig Morgan
Country Songs with a Midwest Theme #21 to 30
21. 'Lake Marie' by John Prine
22. 'Long Hot Summer Day' by Turnpike Troubadours
23. 'Middle of America' by Hailey Whitters
24. 'All Summer Long' by Kid Rock
25. 'Fly Over States' by Jason Aldean
26. 'Wichita Lineman' by Glen Campbell
27. 'Cincinnati, Ohio' by Connie Smith
28. 'Saginaw, Michigan' by Lefty Frizzell
29. 'Plain to See Plainsman' by Colter Wall
30. 'South Dakota' by Chris Stapleton
Country Songs Reflecting Midwestern Life #31 to 40
31. 'Truck Drivin' Man' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
32. 'The Mississippi' by Charlie Daniels
33. 'Where the Earth is Round' by Ann Reed
34. 'River of Time' by The Judds
35. 'The Fair' by Ann Reed
36. 'Hey, Minnesota' by Ann Reed
37. 'My Minnesota State Fair' by Ann Reed
38. 'The Lumberman's Alphabet' by Heenan and Sayers
39. 'The Mississippi' by Indigo Girls
40. 'Minnesota Girls' by The Shackletons
More Country Songs About Midwestern Culture #41 to 50
41. 'Favorite Country Song' by HARDY
42. 'Minnesota Wild' by Tiny Voices
43. 'Take a Back Road' by Rodney Atkins
44. 'Wagon Wheel' by Darius Rucker
45. 'A Country Boy Can Survive' by Hank Williams, Jr.
46. 'God Country' by Blake Shelton
47. 'Our Grass is Legal' by Hailey Whitters
48. 'Just Like Johnny' by Redferrin
49. 'Hobo' by Charlie Parr
50. 'I'm From Minnesota' by Alex Frecon
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