Newest Additions to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#34)
The wonderful thing about a Tuttle, is that a Tuttle is a wonderful thing. Clawhammer guitar maestro Molly Tuttle has announced her debut album When You’re Ready will be released April 5th, and her lead single, the plucky and infectious “Take The Journey” leads the latest additions to the Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist.
Also making the list is a standalone single from Nashville’s Michaela Anne who joins forces with Southern California’s Sam Outlaw on “One Love Song.” Sam recently moved to Nashville himself, but before the move he helped produce a new album from Michaela with details forthcoming. Another great country song picked out of the ether is “Fire in Lace” from Edmonton, Canada’s Andrea Nixon. It is from her album Diary of a Housewife which was released a while back, but the song is seeing its first digital release as a single.
If you’re looking for some twang, it comes hard and heavy from Texas country’s Cody Johnson, who just released his major label debut Ain’t Nothin’ To It. The reflective and well-written “Monday Morning Merle” makes the playlist, as does another track from a major label artist in the form of Randy Houser’s “Evageline”—the final track off his surprisingly great new album Magnolia.
And last but not least is the song “Wherever You Are” off the brand new album by The Steel Woods, Old News. This is a legitimate Song of the Year candidate already here in January.
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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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Please Note: The songs on this playlist are curated for listening pleasure and flow. Otherwise, they are not in any specific order.
Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist:
- “Take The Journey” – Molly Tuttle – When You’re Ready (out 4-5)
- “Good and Drunk” – Ward Davis – Asunder EP
- “Bad Habit” – The Golden Roses – Terlingua Graveyard (out 2-22)
- “Fire in Lace” – Andrea Nixon – (single)
- “Around Here” – Whitey Morgan and the 78’s – Hard Times and White Lines
- “Girl Goin’ Nowhere” – Ashley McBryde – Girl Going Nowhere
- “If I Can Make Texas Tonite” – Tom Buller – When A Country Boy Gets the Blues
- “Coal Country” – Charles Wesley Godwin – Seneca (out 2-15)
- “The One That You Love” – Comanche Moon – Country Music Deathstar
- “Natural Disaster” – Dillon Carmichael – Hell On An Angel
- “Mountain Girl” – Sane Smith & the Saints – (single)
- “Walking On Water” – Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters – All Damn Day
- “Monday Morning Merle” – Cody Johnson – Ain’t Nothin’ To It
- “One Love Song” – Michaela Anne feat. Sam Outlaw – (single)
- “Living By Moonlight” – Flatland Cavalry – Homeland Insecurity
- “Bourbon Hound” – Della Mae w/ Molly Tuttle, Avril Smith – (single)
- “Living Room” – Brian Callihan – (single)
- “The Way She Looked At You” – Sarah Shook and the Disarmers – (single)
- “Cheyenne” – Pistol Annies – Interstate Gospel
- “Home Away From Home” – Ted Russell Kamp – Walkin’ Shoes
- “Die From A Broken Heart” – Maddie & Tae – (single)
- “Brokenhearted” – William Michael Morgan – (single)
- “Slow Kill” – Kristina Murray – Southern Ambrosia
- “Wherever You Are” – The Steel Woods – Old News
- “Death & Life” – Jamie Lin Wilson – Jumping Over Rocks
- “Evangeline” – Randy Houser – Magnolia
Music Jedi
January 20, 2019 @ 1:30 pm
Glad to see Ward Davis and Whitey Morgan staying toward the top and I love the new Cody Johnson entry. His new record is gonna be big!
Wes
January 20, 2019 @ 2:46 pm
I thought the new flatland Calvary album lacked production in certain areas. In fact it’s kind of Killing Me album for me but apparently I’m all alone in this thought process…. I will say come back down is amazing and probably going to be my song of the year for 2019 just some of the album sucked.
Trigger
January 20, 2019 @ 3:22 pm
I was hoping to have a Flatland Cavalry review posted on Friday, but chose to spend some more time with it before finishing the review. Hopefully it will be posted soon.
J Burke
January 20, 2019 @ 3:27 pm
Trigger,. Not thing about Reggie Young!
Trigger
January 20, 2019 @ 7:01 pm
By the time the death of Reggie Young reached my desk, The Associated Press and Gannett had distributed some 150 obituaries of him around the internet. Mine would have been 151, and useless to the public. The death has not gone unnoticed, or ignored, and if and when I have something valuable to add to the story and his legacy, I will do so.
Mike
January 20, 2019 @ 4:24 pm
Is there a way for you to publish this on Apple Music too?
Trigger
January 20, 2019 @ 4:43 pm
Yes, Country Exclusive makes it available on Apple Music:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/playlist/saving-country-music-top-25/pl.u-xWE3tp3y91W
Happy Dan
January 21, 2019 @ 10:24 am
The Country Exclusive playlist hasn’t yet been updated as of 1-21, will be patient as this is worth the wait.
JAY
January 20, 2019 @ 6:37 pm
I saw Jamie Lin Wilson last night at Gruene Hall and as good as the album version of “Death and Life” is, live, with just her and her band, was breathtaking.
OlaR
January 20, 2019 @ 7:03 pm
The Other Playlist:
Still no Spotify…but all songs & artists should be on Spotify, Google Play, YouTube, Amazon Music…
More mainstream, more Texas, more Australia…
Best Song of 2019 (so far): Hazelville – “Time Of The Innocent”
Most Played Song of 2019 (so far): Jordan Brooker – “Find My Fire”
The Top Ten Tracks (my kind of heavy rotation):
#1 – Kolby Cooper – “Tired”
#2 – Amber Dotson – “I’ll Try Anything” (New / ReCurrent & Country Gold)
#3 – Jordan Brooker – “Find My Fire”
#4 – Triston Marez – “Where Rivers Are Red & Cowboys Are Blue” (New / New & Current)
#5 – Cornell & Carr – “Be In The Band”
#6 – Dani Young – “Stepping Stones”
#7 – Shelly Jones Band – “Merle” (New / New & Current)
#8 – Richard Schroder – “Hallelujah Skyline” (New / New & Current)
#9 – Harmony James – “Change” (New / New & Current)
#10 – Kevin Fowler – “Country Song To Sing” (New / New & Current)
Active / New & Current (my kind of light rotation):
Kelly Lynn Madison – “Open Road”
Jade Marie Patek – “Damn The Rain”
The Chad Cooke Band – “Fire & Smoke”
Season Ammons – “Jim Beam & Nicotene”
Andy Penkow – “Drowning In The Whiskey”
Troy Cassar-Daley – “Shadows On The Hill”
Alice & The Underground – “Change My Mind”
Diamondbuck – “Another Songwriter In Nashville”
Jordan Nix & The Day Drinkers – “Gas Station Flowers”
Simon Marks – “Shine” (New)
Mike Yow – “Mercedes Benz” (New)
Haydon Haddock – “First Rodeo” (New)
Holly Tucker – “The Finer Things” (New)
Clay Hollis – “Hard Headed Heart” (New)
Matt Mason – “Doubts My Doubts” (New)
Joanna Young – “Honkytonks & Heartaches” (New)
John Thibodeaux – “Don’t Want To Love Her Anymore” (New)
Active / ReCurrent & Country Gold (my kind of light rotation for older tracks):
Aleyce Simmonds – “Believe”
Jerry Kilgore – “All I’ve Got To Say”
Noel McKeary Band – “One Way Train”
Janie Fricke – “I’ll Walk Before I’ll Crawl”
John & Audrey Wiggins – “Falling Out Of Love”
John Conlee – “I’m Not That Good At Goodbye”
Jeff Stevens & The Bullets – “You’re In Love Alone”
Track Testing:
Jonny Taylor – “Gravel Road”
Matt James – “The Long Road”
Ray Scott – “Honky Tonk Heart”
JB-Chicago
January 20, 2019 @ 9:00 pm
Just thought I’d put this here ………well because there’s really nowhere else to put it. After seeing Sarah Shook & The Disarmers Friday night at Lincoln Hall here in Chicago play an amazing show to about 500 of us I decided to go the Saturday night show at a small venue I’d never heard of or been to about 90 miles southwest. I pulled into a very small town in the middle of nowhere called Lasalle, IL (East Bumblefuck!) to make a long story short it was a small restaurant called the Uptown Grill and inside there was a tiny banquet room setup with about 80 chairs. 50 of us were treated to not one but 2 sets by the full band totaling about 17 songs. She played “The Way She Looked At You” (now my favorite song thanks to this site) both nights. The band played as if they were playing a fest of thousands smiling and joking all the way through. Afterwards Sarah came out to chat, sign merch, and take pics with us etc…. She was so nice and friendly. Gave me a big hug, took a pic. 🙂 I love to see her smile. The most bizarre intimate enjoyable show I’ve ever seen in 45 years of going to shows. My “parting words” to her were….”don’t let em change you Sarah” she said “don’t worry I won’t”. A night like this is the reason I still love music.
Trigger
January 20, 2019 @ 9:12 pm
Thanks for sharing JB.
Imre Bidtnes
January 21, 2019 @ 6:45 am
Hope to see the new Caroline Spence song on your list, great stuff from her as always 🙂
Bruce Bremer
January 21, 2019 @ 10:13 am
Steel Woods- Had not heard of them. Checked them out. Like them, but the fact that they sound like Chris Stapleton… how many Chris Stapletons do we need?