50 Best Country Songs About Oregon

Country Songs Connected to Oregon

There’s a strange pull Oregon has on musicians. It slips into lyrics the way mountains shadow highways or how rain turns sidewalks into film reels. The state shows up when writers need a backdrop that feels untamed, wide open, and a little lonely. Not every track that leans on Oregon was written with the map in mind, but the way the sound bends toward longing or escape fits the picture. Like with plenty of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, place names often work as shorthand for a mood. Oregon gets used that way too, sometimes literal, sometimes symbolic, always with a weight that sticks.

The energy you find in these tracks lands somewhere between restless and rooted. Country voices especially grab hold of that mix, because Oregon can feel both rugged and delicate depending on the angle. A ballad about heading west might not mention the rivers or the pines, yet the imagery still feels tied to the land. Other times the lyrics get more direct, calling out towns or coastlines in a way that makes listeners picture fog rolling over fields. The line between place and feeling blurs fast, which is probably why artists keep circling back to it.

Some of these songs sound like road trips, others like quiet mornings on porches no one else will sit on again. They capture Oregon not as a postcard, but as a backdrop for choices, heartbreaks, and fleeting calm. The playlist is messy in the best way, because the theme spills beyond geography into tone and atmosphere. Here are the best country songs connected to Oregon.

1. 'Portland, Oregon' by Loretta Lynn and Jack White

2. 'Lumberjack' by Johnny Cash

3. 'Eugene, Oregon' by Dolly Parton

4. 'Roll On, Columbia, Roll On' by Woody Guthrie

5. 'Portland Town to Klamath Falls' by Tony Furtado and Kristin Andreassen

6. 'The Oregon Song' by Frank Dean

7. 'Oregon Trail' by Woody Guthrie

8. 'Rose City Blues' by Todd Snider

9. 'Oregon Line (That Oregon Trail)' by Pharis and Jason Romero

10. 'Mt. St. Helens' by Mirah

11. 'Last of the M.C. Horses' by Ian Tyson

12. 'Oregon' by Buffalo Kin

13. 'Coming Home (Oregon)' by Mat Kearney

14. 'Broken Arm in Oregon' by The Decemberists

15. 'Tillamook County Jail' by The Decemberists

16. 'Twin Rocks Oregon' by Shawn Mullins

17. 'Coos County Blues' by Harry Stamper

18. 'Pacific Northwestern Blues' by Justin Townes Earle

19. 'Northbound' by Tim Easton

20. 'Portland Town' by Ben Hunter and Joe Seamons

21. 'The Last One to Leave Seattle' by Waylon Jennings

22. 'Western White Pines' by Colby Acuff

23. 'North to Alaska' by Johnny Horton

24. 'When it's Springtime in Alaska' by Johnny Cash

25. 'Chains' by Patty Loveless

26. 'The Oregon Coast' by The Old Crow Medicine Show

27. 'The Wallowa River' by Steve Forbert

28. 'Cascade' by The Brothers Comatose

29. 'Willamette Valley' by John Craigie

30. 'Streets of Aberdeen' by Hellbound Glory

31. 'I Can't Go Home' by Blackhawk County

32. 'Old Settler' by Francis Henry

33. 'Haircut' by Ray Stevens

34. 'Hard Travelin'' by Woody Guthrie

35. 'The Song of the Grand Coulee Dam' by George Rezendes, David Grisman, and Tracy Grisman

36. 'The Ballad of Jackhammer John' by Cahalen Morrison, Joe Seamons and Jon Neufeld

37. 'New Found Land' by John Moen and Chris Funk

38. 'The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done' by Caitlin Belem Romtvedt, David Romtvedt, and Joe Seamons

39. 'Columbia's Waters' by Caitlin Belem Romtvedt, David Romtvedt, and Joe Seamons

40. 'White Ghost Train' by Cahalen Morrison

41. 'Oregon Trail' by T.R. Stewart

42. 'The Columbia River Collection' by Woody Guthrie

43. 'Willamette Valley' by The Old Crow Medicine Show

44. 'Pacific Northwest' by Brandy Clark

45. 'Oregon' by The Decemberists

46. 'Blue Wing' by Tom Russell

47. 'Oregon' by Mat Kearney

48. 'The Oregon Trail' by Peter Yarrow

49. 'The Ballad of the Oregon Trail' by The Kingston Trio

50. 'Go West' by The Village People