What Country Music out now reflects/promotes a permaculture mindset?

I love country music. like, LOVE it. But only a small subset of country music actually mentions farming, ranching, etc, and most of that is the agrobusiness/monsanto model - which I don't want to promote.

Anyone have any favorite Country songs they like that reflect our better way to do agriculture?  

New songs, new Artists would be ideal, but I want to hear the older lost gems too.

I love me some Nick Shoulders...

First thing that comes to mind for me is the most obvious: "A Country Boy Can Survive" by Hank Jr

Great song.

John Prine - Spanish Pipe Dream

Neil Young in general. However his lyrics often come from the stance of lamenting the "conventional" (and sometimes specifically monsanto), rather than celebrating the sustainable.

John Denver. Satsang, maybe. Ayla Nereo maybe.

I listen to Christian music 99% of the time, and much of it is country. I've got nothing that talks about farming in our alternative methods.

This song, which I'd probably call a country ballad, fits our permaculture group of people if by nothing else, the name.  The people on this forum come from all walks of life, all parts of he globe, tons of different skill levels, tons of interests, different beliefs, but in the end, we all come to this forum, we all come as we are, to sit at the table with people who all want to be part of something really special. So while this song isn't about ranching or farming, it is about coming together, no matter who we are.  We can all lay down our burdens, and be lifted up. And that is a really great group to belong to. Hope you all enjoy.

Come As You Are by Crowder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2zhf2mqEMI

It’s not new and may be more folk than country, but I’d recommend Billy Bragg and Wilco’s album “Mermaid Avenue”, particularly the song “Unwelcome Guest”.

Dylan Earl is awesome too!

Where’s my Grateful Dead peps?

Not sure if this fellow counts as country, but these 2 songs bring tears of joy to me when Im out there working in my permaculture gardens :)

David Mallet



https://youtu.be/s5zxX2BIC6Q?si=lIkpC6lJUBMA8Px4

Joni Mitchell wrote a song about Woodstock that
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young may be be better known for.

Here’s the final chorus:

We are stardust,
billion year old carbon,
we are golden
caught in the devil’s bargain
and we’ve got to get ourselves
back to the garden

Being from that era, it’s not so much about farming, but if you read the devil’s bargain to be about mortgages and “wage slavery” and such, a person could go a long permaculture way on that chorus, and make up some good verses

Just a few:

Thank God I'm a Country Boy

Where Corn Don't Grow

High Cotton

And Johnny Cash sang:

I never picked cotton
But my mother did
And my brother did
And my sister did

"Lifetime of work" by Benjamin Todd?

I love this! It reminds me of Bluegrass bands in the park we went to when I was a kid in Georgia! Thank you so much!

I like

Buffy St Marie’s  

“I’m going to be a country girl again”

I tried to get a link to a YT recording (still + recording) but I need more tech skills to do that!

But really, go listen.  It’s very singable and has some great lines.  Like this one:  “I tell you all the lights on broadway don’t amount to an acre of green….”