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“Country Girl” by Primal Scream
From the album Riot City Blues (2006)
“Country Girl” by Primal Scream appears on 11 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2006 and 2014. It was first released in 2006 on the album Riot City Blues. Its best result is #79 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #441 alternative song of 2006 and #3,074 alternative song of all time.
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"Country Girl" kicked off Primal Scream's Riot City Blues campaign in May 2006, the first single from the Scottish band's eighth album, and it gave them the highest-charting single of their career in the UK, their first ever top-five entry there. Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, Martin Duffy and Gary Mounfield wrote it, Youth produced and David Sardy mixed, with a backing chorus of Sharlene Hector, Sylvia Mason-James, Juliet Roberts and John Gibbons hollering along.
It's a boozy, rollicking bar-room stomp with a hoedown kick. ITV leaned on it through its coverage of the 2006 World Cup, it doubled as the theme to The Janice Long Review Show, and Jessie Buckley later covered it for the 2019 film Wild Rose. The sleeve is a William Eggleston photograph.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 79 | CD101 Columbus, OH | CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2006 | 101 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 463 | Virgin Radio | Virgin Radio Top 500 Songs of All-Time (December 2006) | 500 |
| 2007 | 1171 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) | 2008 |
| 2008 | 1380 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) | 2009 |
| 2009 | 1391 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) | 2010 |
| 2010 | 1425 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) | 2011 |
| 2011 | 1487 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1526 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2013 | 86 | BBC Radio 6 Music | BBC 6 Music 100 Best Tracks Of The Last 10 Years | 100 |
| 2013 | 882 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2014 | 1586 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
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