50 Best Country Songs About Wolves
Country Songs with Wolves in the Spotlight
There’s a certain pull when wolves turn up in a country song. It’s not always teeth and moonlight. Sometimes they’re running through lonely verses, sometimes they’re a shadow in the background of a heartbreak story, and sometimes they’re nothing more than a symbol you can’t quite pin down. You can picture the scene in your head before the first note’s even done. Cold air. A fence line that’s seen better days. The kind of night where you hear something in the distance and you can’t decide if it’s calling you closer or warning you off.
These tracks don’t clean up the wild edges. They sit in the dirt and keep the roughness in the melody, the way certain pop, rock, country, and R&B songs do when they’re not trying to polish the mood away. You can hear the stomp of boots, the quick crack of a snare, maybe a fiddle cutting through like a branch snapping in the woods. Some tracks go quiet, pulling you into the slow burn of a story that feels older than the singer telling it. Others go loud enough to make the hair on your arms rise without knowing why.
Not every wolf in these songs is chasing something. Sometimes they’re running, sometimes they’re circling, and sometimes they’re standing still and watching. The tension hangs there, waiting, and you can feel the whole thing breathing. That’s where these picks live. Here are the best country tracks that carry that wolf energy and make it stick in your head.
Top 10 Wolf Songs
1. 'Keep the Wolves Away'—Uncle Lucius
2. 'The Wolf'—Whiskey Myers
3. 'Wolves Cry'—Bryan Martin
4. 'Will the Wolf Survive?'—Waylon Jennings
5. 'Dire Wolf'—Grateful Dead
6. 'The House on the Hill'—Waylon Jennings
7. 'Mama Werewolf'—Brandi Carlile
8. 'Werewolf'—Stephen Wilson Jr.
9. 'Cry of the Wolves'—Chad Jenks
10. 'She Wolf'—Megadeth
Wolf-Themed Country Music #11—20
11. 'Wolves At My Door'—unknown artist
12. 'White Wolf'—Garth Brooks
13. 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothes'—Josh Turner
14. 'Wolfman'—Ryan Adams
15. 'I'm a Coyote in a Field of Wolves'—Morgan Wallen
16. 'Lone Wolf'—Hank Williams Jr.
17. 'Two Wolves'—Brantley Gilbert
18. 'Wolf and a Woman'—Toby Keith
19. 'Wolf Creek Pass'—C.W. McCall
20. 'Running With the Wolves'—AURORA
Country Songs About Wolf Pack Mentality #21—30
21. 'She-Wolf'—Shakira
22. 'Lobo'—George Strait
23. 'The Wolf and the Angel'—Reckless Kelly
24. 'Wolf in the Woods'—Blackhawk
25. 'Man and a Wolf'—Sturgill Simpson
26. 'Wolf Creek'—W.A.S.P.
27. 'Big Bad Wolf'—The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
28. 'A Wolf in the City'—Chris Stapleton
29. 'The Lone Wolf'—Moe Bandy
30. 'Wolves'—Ryan Bingham
More Wolf-Themed Country Music #31—40
31. 'Wolf at the Door'—Cory Branan
32. 'The Wolf and the Raven'—Johnny Cash
33. 'Wolf River'—The Wailin' Jennys
34. 'Wolf Girl'—Johnny Horton
35. 'The Wolf'—Midland
36. 'Coyote and the Wolf'—The Dead South
37. 'Wolf'—First Aid Kit
38. 'The Wolf is at the Door'—The Black Keys
39. 'Wolves'—Raise The Black Flag
40. 'Howlin' at the Moon'—Hank Williams
Wolf-Inspired Country Songs #41—50
41. 'Wolf'—Brantley Gilbert
42. 'Wolfman'—The Dead South
43. 'The Wolf in Me'—Ainslie Allen
44. 'Wolf-Woman'—The Handsome Family
45. 'She Wolf'—Lyle Lovett
46. 'I'm a Wolf'—The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
47. 'Wolf's Blood'—Billy Idol
48. 'The Wolf's Song'—Jason Boland & the Stragglers
49. 'Wolf'—Jamey Johnson
50. 'I Am the Wolf'—Mark Lanegan
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