50 Best Country Songs About Places
Country Songs That Celebrate Towns and Landscapes
There is a certain pull when a song ties itself to a place. Sometimes it is a small town with a gas station that smells like fried chicken, other times it is a stretch of highway that feels endless until a chorus makes it familiar. Country music leans hard on that sense of location, and the best tracks make you feel like you have been there even if you never crossed the county line. Some lean literal, naming the state or city out loud, while others bend the rules and still belong in the mix because they echo that same sense of ground and roots.
A lot of these songs hit differently depending on your own map. Someone raised in Texas will hear a lyric about Amarillo and picture one thing, while someone who grew up in the Appalachians will tie their own roads to it. The same way pop, rock, country, and R&B songs sometimes use places as shorthand for bigger emotions, these country tracks use towns, rivers, and backroads to nail down feelings that are otherwise slippery. They might talk about home, longing, escape, or pride, but the place always becomes the anchor.
Not every track is meant as a postcard or a tour guide. Some carry a place in name only, others pull energy from landscapes without ever being meant as travel anthems. That is part of what makes this group so interesting, because the theme holds even when the storytelling twists. The songs gathered here lean into that space, and the list starts below.
Top 10 Place Country Songs
1. 'Wichita Lineman' by Glen Campbell
2. 'Galveston' by Glen Campbell
3. 'Amarillo by Morning' by George Strait
4. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver
5. 'Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man' by Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn
6. 'El Paso' by Marty Robbins
7. 'Jackson' by Johnny Cash and June Carter
8. 'I've Been Everywhere' by Johnny Cash
9. 'God's Country' by Blake Shelton
10. 'Streets of Bakersfield' by Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakam
Country Songs About Famous Places #11 to 20
11. 'I Can Still Make Cheyenne' by George Strait
12. 'Walking in Memphis' by Marc Cohn
13. 'Okie from Muskogee' by Merle Haggard
14. 'Heads Carolina, Tails California' by Jo Dee Messina
15. 'Saginaw, Michigan' by Lefty Frizzell
16. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' by The Charlie Daniels Band
17. 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Lynyrd Skynyrd
18. 'Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer To You)' by Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers
19. 'Little Rock' by Collin Raye
20. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
Notable Country Songs About Towns #21 to 30
21. 'Chattahoochee' by Alan Jackson
22. 'Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind' by George Strait
23. 'Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone' by Charley Pride
24. 'Rocky Mountain High' by John Denver
25. 'God Blessed Texas' by Little Texas
26. 'I Don't Wanna Die In This Town' by The Old 97's
27. 'Toes' by Zac Brown Band
28. 'On a Bus to St. Cloud' by Trisha Yearwood
29. 'Carolina in My Mind' by James Taylor
30. 'Midnight in Montgomery' by Alan Jackson
Country Songs About Regions #31 to 40
31. 'This Land Is Your Land' by Woody Guthrie
32. 'New York City' by The Dixie Chicks
33. 'City of New Orleans' by Arlo Guthrie
34. 'Me and Paul' by Willie Nelson
35. 'There Is No Arizona' by Jamie O'Neal
36. 'Nashville' by Chris Stapleton
37. 'Callin' Baton Rouge' by Garth Brooks
38. 'Tulsa Time' by Don Williams
39. 'My Home's in Alabama' by Alabama
40. 'Beaches of Cheyenne' by Garth Brooks
Country Songs About Places and Cities #41 to 50
41. 'Tennessee Whiskey' by Chris Stapleton
42. 'Blue Tacoma' by Russell Dickerson
43. 'My Town' by Montgomery Gentry
44. 'To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High)' by Ryan Adams
45. 'Southern Nights' by Glen Campbell
46. 'Streets of Baltimore' by Gram Parsons
47. 'Dixie' by Dan Emmett
48. 'The House That Built Me' by Miranda Lambert
49. 'Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight' by The Oak Ridge Boys
50. 'I'd Love to Lay You Down' by Conway Twitty
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