50 Best Country Songs About Tires

Best Country Tire Songs That Hit the Road

There’s a strange charm in how tires sneak their way into country tracks. Sometimes they’re rolling down dirt roads, sometimes they’re burned out on the edge of town, and sometimes they’re nothing more than a metaphor you didn’t expect. It isn’t always literal either. A handful of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs get thrown in the mix and somehow match the same grit. Tires become a stand-in for leaving, for stubbornness, or for the sound of someone moving on faster than you can catch up.

The thing is, these tracks don’t clean things up. They lean into the noise of rubber on gravel, the smoke when the wheels spin, the silence when the ride stalls out. Some are rowdy anthems you blast at full volume with the windows down, others are half-worn ballads where the tires carry the weight of the story. A song doesn’t have to spell out tires word for word to feel tied into that space. The imagery and energy still circle back to them, and that’s what keeps them sticking in your head.

It all fits into that same restless mood where travel, heartbreak, and a little recklessness collide. Tires show up as scars on pavement, as proof someone was there, as a reminder that moving forward can be messy. The tracks on this list pick up on that feeling and throw it out into the world with the kind of twang that makes you nod along. Here are the best country songs on tires.

1. 'Mud on the Tires' by Brad Paisley

2. 'Drive (For Daddy Gene)' by Alan Jackson

3. 'Six Days on the Road' by Dave Dudley

4. 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road' by Lucinda Williams

5. 'On the Road Again' by Willie Nelson

6. 'I Drive Your Truck' by Lee Brice

7. 'East Bound and Down' by Jerry Reed

8. 'King of the Road' by Roger Miller

9. 'Drivin' My Life Away' by Eddie Rabbitt

10. 'Highwayman' by The Highwaymen

11. 'Life Is a Highway' by Rascal Flatts

12. 'Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)' by Alabama

13. 'Take a Back Road' by Rodney Atkins

14. 'Truck Drivin' Man' by Buck Owens

15. 'White Line Fever' by Merle Haggard

16. 'The Road Goes on Forever' by Robert Earl Keen

17. 'Pickup Man' by Joe Diffie

18. 'Highway Don't Care' by Tim McGraw with Taylor Swift and Keith Urban

19. 'Cruisin'' by Florida Georgia Line

20. 'The Ride' by David Allan Coe

21. 'Jackson' by Johnny Cash and June Carter

22. 'Take Me Home, Country Roads' by John Denver

23. 'I've Been Everywhere' by Johnny Cash

24. 'Mercury Blues' by Alan Jackson

25. 'Amarillo by Morning' by George Strait

26. 'I'm a Ramblin' Man' by Waylon Jennings

27. 'Riding With Private Malone' by David Ball

28. 'Looking at the World Through a Windshield' by Son Volt

29. 'Wagon Wheel' by Darius Rucker

30. 'Cadillac Ranch' by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

31. '18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses' by Kathy Mattea

32. 'Getaway Car' by Miranda Lambert

33. 'Fast Car' by Luke Combs

34. 'The Long Black Veil' by Lefty Frizzell

35. 'The One I Loved Back Then (The Corvette Song)' by George Jones

36. 'My Old Bronco' by Luke Bryan

37. 'Honky Tonk Highway' by Luke Combs

38. 'Highway Queen' by Nikki Lane

39. 'Free' by Zac Brown Band

40. 'My Truck' by BRELAND

41. 'Truck Yeah' by Tim McGraw

42. 'Something 'Bout a Truck' by Kip Moore

43. 'We Rode in Trucks' by Luke Bryan

44. 'I Got a Car' by George Strait

45. 'Cadillac Red' by The Judds

46. 'Long White Cadillac' by Dwight Yoakam

47. 'The Car' by Jeff Carson

48. 'Just Drive' by Erin Kinsey

49. 'Circles Around This Town' by Maren Morris

50. 'Used Cars' by Sunny Sweeney