50 Best Country Songs About West Virginia

Best Songs Celebrating West Virginia in Country Music

There’s a certain pull that West Virginia carries in music. It’s not always the postcard mountains or the winding roads but something heavier, closer to the way the place lingers in memory. Songs tied to this state lean into homesickness, pride, and a kind of grit that doesn’t fade no matter how far you drift. Some tracks spell out the geography clear as day while others circle around the feeling, never naming it outright but still landing in the same territory.

Plenty of artists outside country circles have tapped into that spirit too. You’ll find pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that brush up against West Virginia even when the lyrics aren’t strictly focused on the state. That’s part of what makes these tracks interesting, how they bend into the theme without needing to be literal. A road trip mention here, a coal town reference there, or simply the mood of a return home, and suddenly it feels tied back to the hills.

The songs in this lineup sit in that hazy space between memory and landscape. They sound like long drives with too many turns, or a voice carrying over small-town streets late at night. Some weren’t written with West Virginia at the center, yet they hit close enough to carry its energy. Here are the best country songs tied to West Virginia.

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

2. 'West Virginia, My Home' by Hazel Dickens

3. 'Blue Ridge Mountain Song' by Alan Jackson

4. 'Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia' by Emmylou Harris

5. 'West Virginia Ground' by Dwight McCall

6. 'John Hardy' by The Carter Family

7. 'West Virginia Hills' by Iris Bell

8. 'Come Home To West Virginia' by Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

9. 'Coal Tattoo' by Billy Edd Wheeler

10. 'West Virginia Mine Disaster' by Jean Ritchie

11. 'West Virginia Woman' by Big & Rich

12. 'Leaving West Virginia' by Mark Cline

13. 'You Remind Me of West Virginia' by Wyatt Turner

14. 'Almost Heaven, West Virginia' by Bill Withers

15. 'Harlan Man' by Dave Alvin

16. 'Rider' by Johnny Staats and the Delivery Men

17. 'The Wreck of the Virginian' by Vernon Dalhart

18. 'Muswell Hillbilly' by The Kinks

19. 'Paradise' by John Prine

20. 'The Rebel Girl' by Hazel Dickens

21. 'West Virginia Line' by The Del McCoury Band

22. 'Coal Miner's Daughter' by Loretta Lynn

23. 'Universal Sound' by Tyler Childers

24. 'West Virginia' by Alejandro Escovedo

25. 'Home on the Road' by The Living Street

26. 'I'm a Little Bit Country' by Don Gibson

27. 'Anywhere With You' by Jake Owen

28. 'Bluegrass Express' by The Lilly Brothers

29. 'Coal Dust on My Grave' by Matt Mullins & the Bringdowns

30. 'The Ballad of Billy the Kid' by Billy Joel

31. 'Dark as a Dungeon' by Merle Travis

32. 'The Ballad of Chris Lively and His Wife' by Jimmie Tarlton

33. 'Hills of West Virginia' by The Stanley Brothers

34. 'The West Virginia Waltz' by Carlene Carter

35. 'The 55 Counties Song' by Chuck Harris

36. 'Sweet Virginia' by The Rolling Stones

37. 'The Man From Bowling Green' by David Allan Coe

38. 'The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia' by Utah Phillips

39. 'Salt Pork, West Virginia' by The Louvin Brothers

40. 'Morning Morgantown' by Joni Mitchell

41. 'West Virginia Blues' by Frank Hutchison

42. 'This Is My West Virginia' by Iris Bell

43. 'When I Get Where I'm Going' by Brad Paisley

44. 'Charleston Girl' by The West Virginia Ramblers

45. 'Monongah, WV' by The Hackensaw Boys

46. 'I Wanna Go Back to West Virginia' by Kenny Rogers

47. 'Wagon Wheel' by Old Crow Medicine Show

48. 'The Coal Miner's Son' by Johnnie Wright

49. 'My West Virginia Home' by The Davis Sisters

50. 'Dear West Virginia' by Huey Mack