50 Best Rock Songs About Farming

Rock Songs That Capture the Farming Spirit

There’s a strange rhythm tied to fields and barns that slips into rock music from time to time. It isn’t the clean kind of nostalgia people wrap in plaid shirts for photo shoots, it’s grittier. Think dirt under nails, old trucks rattling, skies that crack wide open before a storm. Some tracks lean heavy into that imagery, others circle around it without ever naming the plow or the harvest. They still carry the weight of working hands and open land, and that’s enough to pull them into this kind of playlist.

You get a mix of tones in songs like these. Some blast out a full-throttle sound that mirrors long days where the work never seems to end. Others go quiet, echoing that still moment when fields are empty and the air feels stretched out. Rock may not always be the first place people look for farming themes, but it holds plenty once you listen close. Even tracks rooted in different stories can slip into the same soil when the mood fits. The same thing happens with pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that get pulled together by a thread instead of a literal topic.

So no, not every entry on this list spells it out word for word, but each one carries something that belongs in the farming frame. The grind, the release, the stubborn hope that keeps people planting again and again. These songs hold that spirit in different shapes, and now it’s time to dig into the best rock songs about farming.

1. 'Rain on the Scarecrow' by John Mellencamp

2. 'Fields of Gold' by Sting

3. 'Harvest Moon' by Neil Young

4. 'Big Yellow Taxi' by Joni Mitchell

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

6. 'Farmhouse' by Phish

7. 'Old Man' by Neil Young

8. 'Down on the Farm' by The Allman Brothers Band

9. 'Harvest' by Neil Young

10. 'Poor Old Dirt Farmer' by Levon Helm

11. 'She Thinks My Tractor’s Sexy' by Kenny Chesney

12. 'Amarillo Sky' by Jason Aldean

13. 'International Harvester' by Craig Morgan

14. 'Daddy Won't Sell the Farm' by Montgomery Gentry

15. 'John Deere Green' by Joe Diffie

16. 'The Farmer Is the Man' by John Prine

17. 'Where Corn Don't Grow' by Travis Tritt

18. 'Here's to the Farmer' by James Wesley

19. 'A Man on a Tractor' by Blake Shelton

20. 'Why I Farm' by The Henningsens

21. 'God's Country' by Blake Shelton

22. 'Harvest Time' by Luke Bryan

23. 'Harvest Festival' by Martin Weitzman

24. 'Plowin' on the New Ground' by The Marshall Tucker Band

25. 'The Farmer and the Viper' by The Marshall Tucker Band

26. 'Farming' by A Tribe Called Quest

27. 'Hard Times' by The Allman Brothers Band

28. 'The Last of a Dying Breed' by Toby Keith

29. 'Rain Is A Good Thing' by Luke Bryan

30. 'The Farmer's Daughter' by Charlie Daniels

31. 'The Tractor' by Craig Morgan

32. 'Down to the Farm' by The Doobie Brothers

33. 'Daddy's Farm' by Jamey Johnson

34. 'Farm Life' by Jake Owen

35. 'The Harvest' by The Doobie Brothers

36. 'Farmer's Almanac' by The Band

37. 'Thirty Years of Farming' by The Allman Brothers Band

38. 'The Farm' by John Denver

39. 'Where the Green Grass Grows' by Tim McGraw

40. 'Foreclosure of a Dream' by The Allman Brothers Band

41. 'Country Trash' by The Allman Brothers Band

42. 'On the Combine' by High Valley

43. 'Scarecrow in the Garden' by Chris Knight

44. 'The Great American Farmer' by John Deere

45. 'A Rock Star Bucks a Coffee Shop' by The Allman Brothers Band

46. 'Country Roads' by The Allman Brothers Band

47. 'The Farmer's Daughter' by The Allman Brothers Band

48. 'God's Country' by Blake Shelton

49. 'Harvest' by The Allman Brothers Band

50. 'Bad Rain' by The Allman Brothers Band