This list is about as country as I get, and that’s not really country at all – even with songs from Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and the like. It’s just southern. For me, there is some common denominator, something comfortable about the sound. The bands here seem to know what I mean. The Rolling Stones even give me a taste, and they’re not from the south (maybe south London, but I don’t know). I do know it’s a music I gravitate toward. Hope you do to.
| Song | Time | Artist | Album |
| It Ain’t Nothin’ to Me | 5:12 | Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers | Southern Accents |
| Sugar Magnolia | 3:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty |
| Anyway the Wind Blows | 3:56 | JJ Cale & Eric Clapton | Road to Escondido |
| Done Gone Blue | 3:51 | Los Lobos | Good Morning Aztlan |
| Idle Time | 4:26 | Marc Ford | It’s About Time |
| Brothers | 5:05 | The Vaughan Brothers | Family Style |
| The Eyes of Sarah Jane | 3:48 | The Jayhawks | Rainy Day Music |
| Sometimes a Great Notion | 3:34 | John Mellencamp | Big Daddy |
| Nick of Time | 3:53 | Bonnie Raitt | Nick of Time |
| I Don’t Want to Talk About It Now | 4:48 | Emmylou Harris | Red Dirt Girl |
| Water of Love | 5:27 | Dire Straits | Dire Straits |
| I Threw It All Away | 2:26 | Bob Dylan | Nashville Skyline |
| Hands on the Wheel | 4:23 | Willie Nelson | Red Headed Stranger |
| Drunken Angel | 3:20 | Lucinda Williams | Car Wheels on a Gravel Road |
| Carry You Home | 4:35 | Cross Canadian Ragweed | Cross Canadian Ragweed |
| Muzzle of Bees | 4:56 | Wilco | A Ghost is Born |
| Country Honk | 3:07 | The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed |
| Kentucky Woman | 2:25 | Neil Diamond | Single |
| (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville | 4:33 | R.E.M. | Reckoning |
| 19 Songs/1.2 Hours |