I Fell in Love With Country Music Because of These 15 Songs [Staff Picks]

When you think back on the songs that first made you fall in love with country music, which ones come to mind?

In this staff-compiled list, the folks at Taste of Country are digging back into our own personal memories and sharing which songs first got us hooked on this one-of-a-kind genre.

Country music is about storytelling, so of course, a lot of our picks have special memories that go along with them. This list includes a school bus singalong, a teenage crush and a mother-daughter dance party.

Country music was there for us every step of the way — just like it is for every life stage, for every country fan.

Some of us included a pivotal country song a little later in life, too: You'll find a couple of stories here about "going country" after starting a career in another genre of music. You'll also find a couple anecdotes about the songs that made us want to dig deeper and find out the meanings and back stories behind the music.

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Plus, there's one song on here that not one but two staffers picked as a song that lit a fire under them as young country music fans. Can you guess what it is?