50 Best Country Songs About Phones
Best Country Phone Songs
There’s something strange about phones in country tracks. They end up as lifelines, weapons, excuses, or sometimes a ghost that keeps ringing when you don’t want it to. A call unanswered can feel louder than any guitar riff, and a late-night voicemail can sit heavier than a whiskey hangover. Country doesn’t always treat the phone like a gadget. It becomes the middleman between distance and longing, the thing that connects two voices that probably shouldn’t be talking anymore.
Not every track literally circles around a phone, but the feeling hangs there all the same. A drunk dial. A number scribbled on a napkin. A silence that means no one’s calling back. The same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs twist the idea of connection, these songs let the phone stand in for all the mess that comes with wanting to reach someone who’s out of reach. Sometimes it’s desperate, sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it stings.
The mood can swing fast. One track leans sweet and lonely, another burns bitter with rejection, another shrugs it off with a smirk. It’s the kind of mix where the phone is never really about the phone at all, but what happens on the other end. With that in mind, here are the best country songs on phones.
Top 10 Phone Country Songs
1. 'The Telephone Call' by Tammy Wynette and George Jones
2. 'Austin' by Blake Shelton
3. 'I Just Called to Say I Love You' by Stevie Wonder
4. 'Lonesome 7-7203' by The Kentucky Headhunters
5. 'It's Your Call' by Reba McEntire
6. 'One Number Away' by Luke Combs
7. 'Don't The Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time' by Mickey Gilley
8. 'Dear Telephone' by Marty Robbins
9. 'Why Don't That Telephone Ring' by The Judds
10. 'Callin' Baton Rouge' by Garth Brooks
More Country Songs About Calls #11 to 20
11. 'Hello, I'm a Jukebox' by The Kendalls
12. 'Hello Walls' by Faron Young
13. 'A-11' by Johnny Paycheck
14. 'He'll Have to Go' by Jim Reeves
15. 'She'll Have to Go' by Ricky Van Shelton
16. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
17. 'You'll Think of Me' by Keith Urban
18. 'I Told You So' by Randy Travis
19. 'If You Want to Be My Woman' by Tracy Byrd
20. 'Every Light in the House' by Trace Adkins
Additional Country Songs on the Phone #21 to 30
21. 'You Look So Good in Love' by George Strait
22. 'Don't Close Your Eyes' by Keith Whitley
23. 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers
24. 'Where That Came From' by Randy Travis
25. 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E' by Tammy Wynette
26. 'Long Distance' by The Turnpike Troubadours
27. 'Call Me Home' by Billy Currington
28. 'Hello' by Lionel Richie
29. 'I Will Always Love You' by Dolly Parton
30. 'Online' by Brad Paisley
Country Music Phone References #31 to 40
31. 'Chasing You' by Randy Houser
32. 'Take Me to the River' by George Strait
33. 'Where the Bluegrass Grows' by The Lonesome River Band
34. 'The Long Way' by Brett Eldredge
35. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' by The Charlie Daniels Band
36. 'Whiskey Lullaby' by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
37. 'Call Me' by Lorrie Morgan
38. 'The Texting Song' by Dickie McCoy
39. 'Calling My Phone' by Elijah Scott
40. 'If There's a Phone in Heaven' by Mike Manuel
More Country Songs With Phone Themes #41 to 50
41. 'Hotline Bling' by Drake
42. 'Hanging on the Telephone' by Blondie
43. 'Kiss Me Thru the Phone' by Soulja Boy
44. 'Payphone' by Maroon 5
45. 'Mr. Telephone Man' by New Edition
46. 'Telephone Line' by Electric Light Orchestra
47. 'Hello Central, Give Me Heaven' by The Carter Family
48. 'Mama's Phone' by Little Big Town
49. 'Hello, Operator' by The White Stripes
50. 'No Phone' by Cake
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