Newest Additions to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#28)
Starting off the newest additions to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Playlist is singer and songwriter Lauren Morrow, formerly of the Georgia-based band The Whiskey Gentry. Now relocated in Nashville, she’s launching a solo project, and doing it in style with the song “Viki Lynn” off her just-released EP. Also just released was Adam Hood‘s latest record Somewhere in Between, and his song with Brent Cobb called “She Don’t Love Me” makes the list as well.
Singing duo The Brother Brothers were one of the standout discoveries for Saving Country Music in 2017, and now signed to Compass Records, they’re getting ready to release their debut LP Some People I Know. Ahead of the album, the song “Red and Gold” gives a great example of why this project is one to keep on the radar. The duo’s new album comes out October 19th.
Also added is a great traditional country single called “Dolly Would You Pardon Me” by south Alabama singer and songwriter Christina Christian. Also Kristina Murray‘s slot on the playlist has been freshened with her song “Slow Kill” off the recent release Southern Ambrosia.
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The Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist primarily lives on Spotify, but is also available for those who use Google Play, and on Apple Music thanks to Country Exclusive. For those who don’t stream music, you can still find the song recommendations in list form below.
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Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:
- “JP’s Florida Blues #1” – JP Harris – Sometimes Dogs Bark At Nothing
- “Viki Lynn” – Lauren Morrow – Self-Titled EP
- “Down Low” – Town Mountain ft. Tyler Childers – New Freedom Blues
- “Ruby’s Stool” – Loretta Lynn – Wouldn’t It Be Great
- “Finding Who I Always Should Have Been” – James Steinle – South Texas Homecoming
- “Singin’ A New Song” – Joshua Hedley – Broken Man 2-Song Album
- “Slow Kill” – Kristina Murray – Southern Ambrosia
- “Head Case” – Cody Jinks – Lifers
- “Over You” – Sarah Shook and the Disarmers – Years
- “Love To Try Them On” – Shane Owens – It’s a Southern Thing
- “Other Side” – Folk Soul Revival – Self-Titled
- “Sad” – Carson McHone – Carousel
- “Better Boat” – Kenny Chesney (ft. Mindy Smith) – Songs for the Saints
- “Off The Wagon” – Cliff Westfall – Baby You Win
- “Come Around” – El Coyote – El Coyote
- “Holy Dirt” – John R. Miller – The Trouble You Follow
- “Honky Tonk Hell” – Whitey Morgan and the 78’s – Hard Times and White Lines
- “Red And Gold” – The Brother Brothers – Some People I Know
- “Gundowners” – Grand Ole Grizzly – Pure Country Pyrite
- “She Don’t Love Me” – Adam Hood (w/ Brent Cobb) – Somewhere In Between
- “Calgary Round-Up” – Colter Wall – Songs of the Plains
- “Dolly Would You Pardon Me” – Christina Christian – (single)
- “Road Stone” – Drew Moreland – Self-Titled
- “Poor” – William Clark Green – Hebert Island
- “That’s Why They Call It Temptation” – Robbie Fulks, Linda Gail Lewis – Wild! Wild! Wild!
OlaR
October 13, 2018 @ 12:15 pm
The Other Playlist:
All songs should be on Spotify, Google Play, Amazon Music & YouTube.
A lot of new tracks (mostly Texas & Australia). Check ’em out!
Most Played Song Of 2018 (so far): Kirsty Lee Akers – “Chasing Ghosts”
Best Song Of 2018 (so far): Liam Kennedy-Clark – “Tails You Say The Same”
Most Played Song Of October (so far): Darin Jones & The Last Men Standing – “Feels Like Coming Home”
Active / New & Current:
Terri Clark – “Bloody Mary Morning”
Terri Clark – “Cowboys In This Town”
The Huser Brother Band – “Highway”
Spur 327 Band – “Beneath The Texas Sunset”
Jordan Nix & The Day Drinkers – “Gas Station Flowers”
Caleb Paul – “These Tires Roll”
Andrew Owens – “Good For You”
Kaylens Rain – “Catching Red Lights”
Re Mattei – “Feels Like It’s Gonna Rain”
Sinead Burgess – “Praising God, Raising Hell”
Shanley Del feat. Lachlan Bryan – “I’ve Got All The Time In The World”
Tyler Resch – “Broke Down In A Small Town”
Tim Williams – “If I’d Known You Then”
Bryce A. Dicus & The Mercenaries – “I Ain’t Slept Since Texas”
Bryce A. Dicus & The Mercenaries – “Good As Gone”
Triston Marez – “Out On The Dance Floor”
Tanner Fenoglio – “Leaving Midland”
Presley Phillips – “Last Rodeo”
Kaylee Bell – “One More Shot”
Joey Greer – “Say You Will”
Bri Bagwell – “As Soon As You”
Pistol Annies – “Interstate Gospel”
Jägertown – “Blame It On The Wine”
Montgomery Church – “I’m Gonna Love Her All The Time”
Active / ReCurrent & Country Gold:
Blaine Roy – “Lonely Road”
The Corey Kane Band – “Falling”
Paula McCulla – “That Had To Hurt”
Mario Flores – “Truck Bench Church”
The Long & Short Of It – “When I’m Gone”
Patty Loveless – “The Trouble With The Truth”
Liam Kennedy-Clark & Cassi Hilbers – “Dancing In The Dark”
Playlist / Testing:
Troy Cassar-Daley – “Wouldn’t Change A Thing” (a 42 tracks Greatest Hits album will be released next week: 10/19)
One of the biggest stars of Australia, Troy Cassar-Daley (49) won 33 Golden Guitars, 9 Deadlys (for aboriginal artists only awards) + ARIA, APRA & CMAA-awards. He released more than a dozen albums incl. 6 gold & platin albums.
In 2017 he was the 50th inductee in the Roll of Renown (the most prestigious award in australian country music).
Like the majority of his singles “Wouldn’t Change A Thing” went to #1(Australian Country Airplay Top 40).
Troy Kemp feat. Jayne Denham – “Hung Up On You”
Django Walker – “Somewhere In This Town Tonight”
Honkytonk Special – “Just Go Crazy With My Heart”
Mark Lucas – “The Ghost Of Lost Creek Road”
Malin Pettersen – “Sad Songs & Waltzes”
Chuck Shaw – “Burn That Oil”
Josh Grider – “Pictures Do”
Nicolet
October 13, 2018 @ 4:15 pm
My goodness, the Brother Brothers are Simon & Garfunkel reincarnated.
Trigger
October 13, 2018 @ 10:31 pm
They’re so good.
P K
October 14, 2018 @ 6:34 am
Brother Brothers are great. But don’t we already have the reincarnation of Simon & Garfunkel? They’re called the Milk Carton Kids.
DS
October 13, 2018 @ 5:37 pm
Hey Trigger, any chance you’ve listened to Ben Danaher’s debut LP?
Trigger
October 13, 2018 @ 10:30 pm
Yes I have. It’s on the radar.
Keaton
October 13, 2018 @ 8:14 pm
What about Justin Moore’s new song and old glory by jerrod Neiman ?
JB-Chicago
October 14, 2018 @ 12:19 am
Whitey tore up “Honky Tonk Hell” tonight here in Chicago, incredible show and I’ve now come to love the entire Sarah Shook album, “Over You” is a great song. Love the Shane Owens tune and EP as well! This site has changed my life. I have no idea what shit I’d probably be listening to IF I hadn’t found it. I can’t explain it any other way. 🙂
Blackh4t
October 15, 2018 @ 5:11 am
Just my 2c, I’m a cd person, and people keep pushing me to stream because everything is available. But i find it simply makes people focus on random disconnected tracks and never get to appreciate a whole album.
Yes, I know I’ll never buy all these albums, but its worth it to grow to love a whole album with the good, the experimental and the interesting
Benny Lee
October 15, 2018 @ 12:04 pm
I stream a lot these days, and I normally choose to stream a specific album at a time. IMO the great thing about streaming is you can choose how you want to listen, and it’s all right there at your fingertips.
Blackh4t
October 15, 2018 @ 12:19 pm
I agree that it can be great, and if someone else has it i can tell them about an album, but i miss flipping through my collection to find an album to listen to.
Its digitised, but the ipod classic let’s me still flip through ny cds
Trigger
October 15, 2018 @ 12:26 pm
The way I utilize this playlist is to highlight album releases through songs. That is why I include the album information in the playlist, and also talk about the albums that each newly-added song is from. The whole “Current” idea is to highlight music from recently-released albums, or from albums that are about to be released so that the album is on the radar of more individuals, especially ones who may not be prone to reading album reviews or news stories on releases. Occasionally a single is included here too, but the underlying point is to redirect people to albums, while also attempting to give artists and songs often overlooked in the big Spotify playlists a bit more attention.
Blackh4t
October 15, 2018 @ 12:32 pm
You’re doing a great thing. I was just putting my general opinon of spotify out there just to see if anyone felt the same.
Maybe I just have a stubborn streak that resists instant gratification
GREG
October 15, 2018 @ 2:36 pm
Thanks Kyle for adding Loretta to the play list.
Mongo
October 15, 2018 @ 6:38 pm
If Michigan Rattlers aren’t on your radar yet they need to be! They knocked it out of the park with their debut album Evergreen.
IronHead
October 17, 2018 @ 1:06 pm
Trigger, I’ve listened to your top 25’s radio station on Spotify for a couple of hrs today. A very decent listen…. However, I was wondering about your thoughts on this particular function; would you say it’s a good way to find other like minded artists not on the current playlist or does spotify manipulate the station negatively somehow?
Trigger
October 17, 2018 @ 11:06 pm
Not exactly sure what you’re asking, but I do think Spotify does a decent job curating suggestions of artists based on others. It can be tricky when you’re dealing with independent artists because some of them don’t have enough metadata to make smart suggestions via artificial intelligence, but it’s not bad.
IronHead
October 18, 2018 @ 12:16 am
There’s a function on spotify that allows you to listen to a ‘radio station’ based on an artist, song, album, etc – in this case your top 25 playlist…. Your answer still pretty much covers my question anyway. Many thanks!