Colors of Country

As autumn marches forward and the leaves begin to change colors, I began to think about the color songs of country music.  Most colors are pretty common in song titles, but for some reason country singers just don't like to sing about purple or violet; those songs are nearly impossible to find.

In the list below, there are 3 songs for each color coming from different eras of country.  The songs in green are for any songs performed before 1979. The songs in blue are from 1980-1999.  The songs in yellow are for songs from 2000-present.  Additionally, no artist has more than one song on this list (which is why there so many songs, like "Orange Blossom Special" or "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," being performed by artists other than the ones who made them famous).

The Napster playlist is here.
The Spotify playlist is here.
The Youtube playlist is here.


1. "Red Headed Stranger" by Willie Nelson
2. "Red River" by Alabama
3. "Red" by Taylor Swift (Not on Spotify Playlist)
4. "Orange Blossom Special" by Bill Monroe
5. "Down in the Orange Grove" by John Anderson (Not on Spotify Playlist)
6. "Orange Moon" by Keith Harkin
7. "Yellow Roses" by Hank Snow
8. "Yellow River Road" by Suzy Bogguss
9. "Yellow Brick Road" by Morgan Frazier
10. "The New Green Light" by Hank Thompson
11. "John Deere Green" by Joe Diffie
12. "Big Green Tractor" by Jason Aldean
13. "Blue, Blue Day" by Don Gibson
14. "Baby Blue" by George Strait
15. "Barefoot Blue Jean Night" by Jake Owen
16. "The Violet and the Rose" by Wanda Jackson
17. "She Picks the Violets" by The Jayhawks
18. "Violet Eyes" by Sandra McCracken
19. "The Long Black Veil" by Lefty Frizzell
20. "Black Water Bayou" by Tanya Tucker
21. "Long Black Train" by Josh Turner
22. "White Lightnin'" by George Jones
23. "Long White Cadillac" by Dwight Yoakam
24. "White Liar" by Miranda Lambert
25. "Silver Wings" by Merle Haggard
26. "Silver Thunderbird" by Jo Dee Messina (Not on Spotify Playlist)
27. "Silver Lining" by Kacey Musgraves
28. "All the Gold in California" by Larry Gatlin
29. "Gibbonsville Gold" by Hank Williams Jr. 
30. "Golden" by Lady Antebellum
31. "Pretty Little Pink" by Doc Watson
32. "Pink Flamingos" by Tracy Byrd
33. "Two Pink Lines" by Eric Church
34. "When I'm Gray" by Johnny Cash
35. "Cold Gray Kentucky Morning" by Aaron Tippin
36. "Shades of Gray" by Robert Earl Keen
37. "Brown Eyes Handsome Man" by Waylon Jennings
38. "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" by Crystal Gayle
39. "Cecil Brown" by Hank Williams III