50 Best Country Songs About Tennessee

Best Country Songs That Celebrate Tennessee

There’s a feeling baked into Tennessee that’s hard to pin down. It’s smoky barrooms tucked between green hills, highways that seem endless, and quiet backroads where everything slows down until the cicadas are louder than your own thoughts. Songs tied to this place capture that atmosphere in ways that lean heavy on nostalgia, but not always in a straight line. Some tracks go for wide open pride, others lean on heartbreak, and a few wander into something stranger, yet all still sound like they were born out of the same soil. Even when a track drifts into pop, rock, country, and R&B songs, the thread is still there, tangled up with the state itself.

Not every tune points directly to Tennessee on the map. Sometimes the pull comes sideways, with lyrics that never name it outright yet still fit the mood of long drives, neon glow spilling onto cracked pavement, or a voice cracked from the weight of memory. Those songs sit alongside the obvious ones, and they belong in the same space. They might feel like they were written during a night that stretched longer than it should have, or while standing on a porch staring at the horizon. That’s the strange trick of music tied to a place—it doesn’t always need a clear address to get the feeling across.

The energy shifts between messy joy, sharp longing, and quiet reflection, and it all builds into a mix that feels distinctly Tennessee no matter the path taken. A lot of these tracks hold onto imperfection, refusing to smooth things out, which is exactly why they hit the way they do. Some are anthems, some are whispers, and a few split the difference by stumbling into both. Here are the best country songs that carry the Tennessee spirit.

1. 'Rocky Top' by The Osborne Brothers

2. 'My Tennessee Mountain Home' by Dolly Parton

3. 'Tennessee Whiskey' by Chris Stapleton

4. 'Tennessee Stud' by Johnny Cash

5. 'Smoky Mountain Rain' by Ronnie Milsap

6. 'Back Where I Come From' by Kenny Chesney

7. 'Dixieland Delight' by Alabama

8. 'Tennessee Waltz' by Pee Wee King

9. 'Walking in Memphis' by Marc Cohn

10. 'That's How I Got to Memphis' by Tom T. Hall

11. 'Wrong Side of Memphis' by Trisha Yearwood

12. 'Tennessee Homesick Blues' by Dolly Parton

13. 'Nashville Without You' by Tim McGraw

14. 'Tennessee River' by Alabama

15. 'Maybe It Was Memphis' by Pam Tillis

16. 'Tennessee Orange' by Megan Moroney

17. 'Back to Tennessee' by Billy Ray Cyrus

18. 'Tennessee Flat-Top Box' by Johnny Cash

19. 'Guitar Town' by Steve Earle

20. 'Tennessee River Runs Low' by The Secret Sisters

21. 'Dime Store Cowgirl' by Kacey Musgraves

22. 'Nashville Cats' by The Lovin' Spoonful

23. 'Tennessee' by Sugarland

24. 'Visit Me in Music City' by Bobby Bare Jr.

25. 'Tennessee' by The Cadillac Three

26. 'Cumberland Gap' by Jason Isbell

27. 'Tennessee Queen' by Ernest

28. 'Southern Comfort Zone' by Brad Paisley

29. 'Chattanooga Lucy' by Kenny Rogers

30. 'Tennessee Song' by Margo Price

31. 'Tennessee River Run' by Darryl Worley

32. 'Tennessee Blues' by Steve Earle

33. 'Girl Named Tennessee' by Needtobreathe

34. 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' by The Charlie Daniels Band

35. 'Nashville Skyline Rag' by Bob Dylan

36. 'Tennessee' by Arrested Development

37. 'Tennessee Me' by The Secret Sisters

38. 'Down on Music Row' by Dolly Parton

39. 'Crazy Town' by Jason Aldean

40. 'Tennessee' by Hank Williams Jr.

41. 'Maybe It Was Memphis' by Pam Tillis

42. 'Nashville' by David Houston

43. 'Tennessee' by Gillian Welch

44. 'Talkin' Tennessee' by Morgan Wallen

45. 'Sundown in Nashville' by Marty Stuart

46. 'Tennessee Dreamin'' by Upchurch

47. 'My Homeland, Tennessee' by Roy Lamont Smith

48. 'Tennessee Jed' by Grateful Dead

49. 'A Boy Named Sue' by Johnny Cash

50. 'Tennessee' by Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors