25 Best Highway Songs – Songs With Highway in the Title
Last Updated: September 8, 2022 | Written by Matthew Campbell
What a great way to celebrate a trip on the road than with the Top 10 Highway Songs. The highway songs can also celebrate famous highways like Route 66. It is probably no surprise that the songs on the list are either rock or country with one song being folk.
One song is on the list twice – once as a rock song and once as a country song. It is even more interesting that the original release was ranked lower than the re-release.
When you think of the highway and think of working the highway, most will think of truckers. No, we don’t mean to make reference to the movie Maximum Overdrive either. Perfect for truckers and highway patrolmen and many more – enjoy our list of highway songs!
Top 10 Highway Songs
(by Amazon downloads)
- “Highway 20 Ride” by Zac Brown Band
- “Highway to Hell” by AC/DC
- “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts
- “Ventura Highway” by America
- “Carefree Highway” by Gordon Lightfoot
- “I Am The Highway” by Audioslave
- “Life Is a Highway” by Tom Cochrane
- “Highway Don’t Care” by Tim McGraw feat. Taylor Swift & Keith Urban
- “Heading Out to the Highway” by Judas Priest
- “Highway Boys” by Zach Bryan
Highway Songs List
Charlie Patton Highway (Turn it Up, Pt. 1) – Robert Plant
2020, Digging Deep: Subterranea
I Am the Highway – Mustangs of The West
2020, I Am the Highway
how will i rest in peace if i’m buried by a highway?// – KennyHoopla
2020, how will i rest in peace if i’m buried by a highway?
Highway Tune – Greta Van Fleet
2017, From The Fires
Highway – August Rain feat. Dara Maclean
2014, American Jesus
Highway Don’t Care – Tim McGraw
2013, Two Lanes of Freedom
Country
Long Lonesome Highway – Michael Parks
2011, Long Lonesome Highway
Highway 20 Ride – Zac Brown Band
2009, The Foundation
Country
Life Is A Highway – Rascal Flatts
2006, Me and My Gang
Country
Sunshine Highway – Dropkick Murphys
2005, The Warrior’s Code
Pacific Coast Highway – Nils
2005, Pacific Coast Highway
Highway 101 – Social Distortion
2004, Sex, Love And Rock ‘N’ Roll
I Am The Highway – Audioslave
2002, Audioslave
Rock
Highway Patol – Junior Brown
1993, Guit With It
Life Is A Highway – Tom Cochrane
1991, Mad Mad World
Rock
Kings Highway – Tom Petty
1991, Into The Great Wide Open
Highwayman – The Highwaymen
1985, Highwayman
Country
Highway 40 Blues – Ricky Skaggs
1982, Highways & Heartaches
Highway To Hell – AC/DC
1979, Highway to Hell
Rock
Highway Song – Blackfoot
1979, Strikes
Carefree Highway – Gordon Lightfoot
1974, Sundown
Folk
Ventura Highway – America
1972, Homecoming
Rock
Rockin’ Down the Highway – The Doobie Brothers
1972, Toulouse Street
Rock
Highway Star – Deep Purple
1972, Machine Head
If you have a favorite Highway song not on our list, be sure to comment on it below so that we can add it!
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Long Lonesome Highway by Michael Parks. Also the theme song for the 70s show ‘Then Came Bronson’
Thank you SO much RJ for our song suggestion. I cannot believe it wasn’t on the list already. Well, it is now.
How is Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s Roll on down the highway not in the top 10? It was huge!
Thanks Mike for the feedback. We will re-evaluate our list rankings.
Highway 40 Blues
Thanks Lance for recommending this Ricky Skaggs song. We added it to the list.