Except for the songs that made my Top 20 songs of 2004 and the representative tracks from my Top 20 Albums of 2004, these are the rest of the best alt country, Southern rock and blues rock tracks of 2004. To be eligible, a song needed to be included on an album released in the United States between December 1, 2003 and November 30, 2004.

1. Drive By Truckers “Where the Devil Don’t Stay” The Dirty South (New West)
2. Loretta Lynn featuring Jack White “Portland, Oregon”
Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
3. Gomez “These 3 Sins” Split the Difference (Virgin)
4. Old 97’s “Smokers” Drag It Up (New West)
5. Drive By Truckers “Never Gonna Change” The Dirty South (New West)
6. The Black Keys “When the Lights Go Out” Rubber Factory
(Fat Possum)
7. Loretta Lynn “Van Lear Rose” Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
8. Iron and Wine “Free Until They Cut Me Down” Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
9. Gomez “Catch Me Up” Split the Difference (Virgin)
10. Wilco “I’m a Wheel” A Ghost Is Born (Nonesuch)
11. Drive By Truckers “Daddy’s Cup” The Dirty South (New West)
12. Loretta Lynn “Women’s Prison” Van Lear Rose (Interscope)
13. Old 97’s “Friends Forever” Drag It Up (New West)
14. Grant Lee Phillips “Wish I Knew” Virginia Creeper (Zoe)
15. Iron and Wine “On Your Wings” Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop)
16. The Black Keys “The Lengths” Rubber Factory (Fat Possum)
17. Drive By Truckers “Carl Perkins’ Cadillac” The Dirty South (New West)
18. Old 97’s “Bloomington” Drag It Up (New West)
19. Loretta Lynn “Trouble On the Line” Van Lear Rose (Interscope)