100 Best Classic Country Songs Of All Time (2024)

Let’s Take Ourselves Out of the City, with Lee Greenwood’s “Mornin’ Ride” Ricky Skaggs Joins a 10-Year Old Kid on a Performance of “Blue Moon of Kentucky” Porter Wagoner Once Taught Us How To Have “A Satisfied Mind” For You 1. Wichita Lineman – Glen Campbell 2. Coat Of Many Colours – Dolly Parton 3. That’s How I Got To Memphis – Tom T. Hall 4. Take Me Home, Country Roads – John Denver 5. Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys – Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson 6. Check Yes Or No – George Strait 7. Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man – Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn 8. American Remains – The Highwaymen (Feat. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson) 9. I Walk The Line – Johnny Cash (With Tennessee Two) 10. Poncho & Lefty – Townes Van Zandt 11. Tennessee Whiskey – George Jones 12. Mama Tried – Merle Haggard 13. Can The Circle Be Unbroken – The Carter Family 14. Take This Job And Shove It – Johnny Paycheck 15. Fast As You – Dwight Yoakam 16. Highwayman – The Highwaymen (Feat. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson) 17. Cowpoke – Eddy Arnold 18. Harper Valley P.T.A – Jeannie C. Riley 19. Chattahoochee – Alan Jackson 20. Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone – Charley Pride 21. Rose Garden – Lynn Anderson 22. The Most Beautiful Girl – Charlie Rich 23. I Wouldn’t Have Missed It For The World – Ronnie Milsap 24. Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette 25. Long Haired Country Boy – The Charlie Daniels Band 26. Boulder To Birmingham – Emmylou Harris 27. I’m In A Hurry (And Don’t Know Why) – Alabama 28. God Bless The U.S.A – Lee Greenwood 29. A Country Boy Can Survive – Hank Williams Jr. 30. Go Rest High On That Mountain – Vince Gill 31. Delta Dawn – Tanya Tucker 32. The Gambler – Kenny Rogers 33. Act Naturally – Buck Owens 34. It Must Be Love – Don Williams 35. Fishin’ In The Dark – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 36. I Love A Rainy Night – Eddie Rabbit 37. Ode To Billie Joe – Bobbie Gentry 38. ’57 Chevrolet – Billie Jo Spears 39. Color Him Father – Linda Martell 40. Why You Been Gone So Long – Jessi Colter 41. Love Hurts – Gram Parsons 42. Old Five And Dimers Like Me – Billy Joe Shaver 43. Sold American – Kinky Friedman 44. The Carroll Country Accident – Porter Wagoner 45. The Brand New Tennessee Waltz – Jesse Winchester 46. Pissin’ In The Wind – Jerry Jeff Walker 47. Longhaired Redneck – David Allan Coe 48. New Cut Road – Guy Clark 49. Amarillo Highway (For Dave Hickey) – Terry Allen 50. Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever So Again) – Tompall & The Glaser Brothers 51. Walking The Floor Over You – Ernest Tubb 52. Saginaw, Michigan – Lefty Frizzell 53. Waterloo – Stonewall Jackson 54. She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft) – Jerry Reed 55. If It Ain’t Love (Let’s Leave It Alone) – Connie Smith 56. May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose – Little Jimmy Dickens 57. The Battle Of New Orleans – Johnny Horton 58. Big Iron – Marty Robbins 59. Skip A Rope – Henson Cargill 60. Hello Mary Lou – The Startler Brothers 61. Highway 40 Blues – Ricky Skaggs 62. Leaving Louisiana In The Broad Daylight – The Oak Ridge Boys 63. My Heart Skips A Beat – Buck Owens 64. Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue – Crystal Gayle 65. Islands In The Stream – Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers 66. King Of The Road – Roger Miller 67. Tulsa Time – Don Williams 68. All The Gold In California – Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers 69. The Last Thing On My Mind – Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton 70. Six Days On The Road – Dave Dudley 71. Two More Bottles Of Wine – Emmylou Harris 72. Let Your Love Flow – The Bellamy Brothers 73. Marie Laveau – Bobby Bare 74. Misty – Ray Stevens 75. There Stands The Glass – Webb Pierce 76. Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy – Red Foley 77. Old Hippie – The Bellamy Brothers 78. Waltz Across Texas – Ernest Tubb 79. Sunday In The South – Shenandoah 80. Stop And Smell The Roses – Mac Davis 81. Tennessee Flat Top Box – Rosanne Cash 82. Big Bad John – Jimmy Dean 83. I’m Just An Old Chunk Of Coal (But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Some Day) – John Anderson 84. 16th Avenue – Lacy J. Dalton 85. You Never Even Called Me By My Name – David Allan Coe 86. East Bound And Down – Jerry Reed 87. Convoy – C.W. McCall 88. For The Good Times – Ray Price 89. Should’ve Been A Cowboy – Toby Keith 90. Sold (The Grundy Country Auction Incident) – John Michael Montgomery 91. Dust On The Bottle – David Lee Murphy 92. Bubba Shot The Jukebox – Mark Chesnutt 93. Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love) – Waylon Jennings (Feat. Willie Nelson) 94. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) – Hank Williams (Feat. Drifting Cowboys) 95. Me And Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson 96. Hello Darlin’ – Conway Twitty 97. Jackson – Johnny Cash (With June Carter Cash) 98. It Wasn’t Gods Who Made Honky Tonk Angels – Kitty Wells 99. Amarillo By Morning – George Strait 100. Okie From Muskogee – Merle Haggard References