50 Best Country Songs About North Dakota
Country Music Songs That Capture North Dakota
There’s a very particular feeling tied to North Dakota. The kind you catch on a long drive past fields that stretch forever, when the radio drifts between static and a voice that somehow makes the flat horizon feel heavy. It’s not glossy, not framed for postcards, but something rougher that lingers after the song ends. A lot of tracks lean into place like this, and while some may not be literally written for North Dakota, they carry the same kind of grit and openness that belongs there.
These songs don’t smooth out the edges. They lean into the quiet, the wind, the small towns that flicker by at night. Some of them are flat-out country storytelling, others pull from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that manage to pin down a mood that fits anyway. It’s less about the accuracy of geography and more about the texture of the sound, the way it fills that space between loneliness and wide sky.
The best ones don’t try to make the place cooler than it is. They let it feel sparse, maybe even a little unshaken, and that’s what makes the music land harder. These tracks carry the kind of atmosphere that makes the plains feel alive even when nothing moves, and here are the best country songs tied to North Dakota.
Top 10 North Dakota Country Songs
1. 'North Dakota' by Chris Knight
2. 'North Dakota' by Lyle Lovett
3. 'My North Dakota Home' by Myron A. Leet
4. 'The North Dakota Cowboy' by Chuck Suchy
5. 'Badlands Fever' by Wayne Douglas
6. 'I'll Be There in North Dakota' by Billy Walker
7. 'North Dakota, You've Never Been to North Dakota' by Kory Quist
8. 'North Dakota' by Roger Weeks
9. 'Dakota Girl' by Wayne Douglas
10. 'O Cumberland River' by Old Crow Medicine Show
Country Music About The Peace Garden State #11 to 20
11. 'North Dakota Hymn' by James W. Foley
12. 'Home on the Range' by Dr. Brewster Higley
13. 'Dakota' by Billy Dean
14. 'Red River Shore' by Bob Dylan
15. 'Sweet Dakota Lady' by Wayne Douglas
16. 'Plains of North Dakota' by Nanci Griffith
17. 'Old North Dakota' by Tom T. Hall
18. 'I've Got a Gal I Love (in North and South Dakota)' by Frank Sinatra
19. 'Across the Wide Missouri' by The Kingston Trio
20. 'Prairie Town' by The Wailin' Jennys
Country Songs Reflecting North Dakota Life #21 to 30
21. 'Wagon Wheel' by Darius Rucker
22. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' by The Charlie Daniels Band
23. 'Gonna Be a Cowboy' by Chris LeDoux
24. 'Where the Pavement Ends' by Little Texas
25. 'Heartland' by George Strait
26. 'Flyover States' by Jason Aldean
27. 'Home Grown' by Zac Brown Band
28. 'Dirt Road Anthem' by Jason Aldean
29. 'Lonesome, On'ry and Mean' by Waylon Jennings
30. 'The River' by Garth Brooks
Country Music Featuring The North Dakota Landscape #31 to 40
31. 'Dakota' by Kenny Rogers
32. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver
33. 'Where the Buffalo Roam' by C.W. McCall
34. 'The Way I Am' by Merle Haggard
35. 'God Bless the U.S.A.' by Lee Greenwood
36. 'A Picture of Me (Without You)' by George Jones
37. 'Windy' by The Association
38. 'The Cowboy's Prayer' by Marty Robbins
39. 'My Hometown' by Charlie Rich
40. 'Rocky Mountain High' by John Denver
North Dakota Country Music Essentials #41 to 50
41. 'Streets of Bakersfield' by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens
42. 'The Long Black Veil' by Lefty Frizzell
43. 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' by Johnny Cash
44. 'Wichita Lineman' by Glen Campbell
45. 'I Walk the Line' by Johnny Cash
46. 'Your Cheatin' Heart' by Hank Williams
47. 'Hello Walls' by Faron Young
48. 'The Fightin' Side of Me' by Merle Haggard
49. 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' by George Jones
50. 'Coal Miner's Daughter' by Loretta Lynn
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