50 Best Country Songs About West Texas

Best Country Music on West Texas

There’s a strange weight that clings to songs tied to West Texas. The land feels endless, flat in a way that bends your chest and makes you measure time in the distance between gas stations. Stories pulled from that setting catch dust in their teeth. You hear them and picture sunburned highways, bars that never quite shut down, nights stretching too far with no city glow to pull against the horizon. Some of these tracks paint the land plain as a map, others circle the feeling of being swallowed by it. Either way, the region shows up in the sound even when the lyrics wander.

What makes this space different is how it gets carried into the music. A lot of pop, rock, country, and R&B songs carry themes of freedom, heartbreak, or endless roads, but West Texas has a tone that turns those familiar stories into something harder, less forgiving. It isn’t polished or tidy. You can hear the grit underneath, the echo in the wide open. Even songs not literally centered on the place still catch the atmosphere, like the land itself slips through the cracks in the melody.

It’s not all nostalgia or myth either. Some of these songs drag out loneliness in a way that feels heavy, while others celebrate small-town nights that never quite line up with the postcard version. They mix beauty and fatigue, promise and loss, sometimes in the same verse. That tension is what makes them stick, and it’s where this list of the best country songs tied to West Texas begins.

1. 'Amarillo by Morning' by George Strait

2. 'West Texas Waltz' by Joe Ely

3. 'Amarillo Highway (For Dave Hickey)' by Terry Allen

4. 'El Paso' by Marty Robbins

5. 'Lubbock or Leave It' by The Chicks

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

7. 'West Texas Wind' by Tracy Byrd

8. 'Feleena (From El Paso)' by Marty Robbins

9. 'Panhandle Poorboy' by Kevin Fowler

10. 'That's Right (You're Not from Texas)' by Lyle Lovett

11. 'Snowin' on Raton' by Townes Van Zandt

12. 'Texas' by The Charlie Daniels Band

13. 'Miles and Miles of Texas' by Asleep at the Wheel

14. 'West Texas Highway' by Lyle Lovett

15. 'Corpus Christi Bay' by Robert Earl Keen

16. 'Texas (When I Die)' by Tanya Tucker

17. 'Cowboys Like Us' by George Strait

18. 'My Texas' by Josh Abbott Band featuring Pat Green

19. 'Texas Cookin'' by Guy Clark

20. 'West Texas Town' by George Strait

21. 'West Texas in My Eye' by The Panhandlers

22. 'Dublin Blues' by Guy Clark

23. 'Galveston' by Glen Campbell

24. 'All My Ex's Live in Texas' by George Strait

25. 'God Blessed Texas' by Little Texas

26. 'I Can't See Texas From Here' by George Strait

27. 'The Bluest Eyes in Texas' by Restless Heart

28. 'Texas Lullaby' by David Allan Coe

29. 'Rollin' Stone from Texas' by Don Walser

30. 'Texas Flood' by Stevie Ray Vaughan

31. 'Blame It on Texas' by Mark Chesnutt

32. 'Talk to Me Texas' by Keith Whitley

33. 'Texas Time' by Keith Urban

34. 'The Last Cowboy Song' by The Highwaymen

35. 'The Seashores of Old Mexico' by George Strait

36. 'Texas Tornados' by The Texas Tornados

37. 'Texas Tornado' by Tracy Lawrence

38. 'He Rode All the Way to Texas' by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris

39. 'Texas' by Blake Shelton

40. 'West Texas is the Best Texas' by The Panhandlers

41. 'Texas Sun' by Khruangbin & Leon Bridges

42. 'Texas' by Chris Stapleton

43. 'Texas Angel' by Kevin Fowler

44. 'Lone Star State of Mind' by Nanci Griffith

45. 'Abilene' by Waylon Jennings

46. 'Streets of Laredo' by Johnny Cash

47. 'Goodbye to Amarillo' by Joe Pat Hennen

48. 'Am I Right or Amarillo' by Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert, and Jon Randall

49. 'Sweet Amarillo' by Old Crow Medicine Show

50. 'Texas Lullaby' by Aaron Watson