
Headed anywhere fun this September?! September is one of our favorite months of the year! It kicks off crunchy leaves, pumpkin spice, and sweater season!! Our September 2021 Playlist: Kerosene Dreams has 66 songs and 3.5 hours of listening. If you’re one of our fellow Kentuckians, that’s just enough music to get you back and forth for an epic day trip around Kentucky!
If you’re not from Kentucky and just looking for a little inspiration – get our guide to some of the best road trips around the United States in September.
P.S. If you’re a content creator – make sure you check out our guide to the best songs for Instagram Reels and how to fix Instagram glitches that keep you from adding all the best tunes to your IG Reels.

Country Music
The September 2021 playlist includes more country than most of our previous playlists, but we love every one of these songs. If you’re a fan of Friday night football, tailgate season, or football parties – you’re bound to hear at least one of these!
- Beers On Me – Dierks Bentley, BRELAND, HARDY
- Take My Name – Parmalee
- Fancy Like – Walker Hayes
- Wishful Drinking (w/ Sam Hunt) – Ingrid Andress, Sam Hunt
- simple times – Kacey Musgraves
- C’est La Vie – Surfaces, Thomas Rhett
- memory – Kane Brown, blackbear
- Ride the Lightning – 717 Tapes – Warren Zeiders

Oldies but Goodies
The songs that you can do literally anything to and everyone loves? Oldies!! Put on Grover Washington’s 1980 hit ‘Just The Of Us’ and see if everyone in the car doesn’t sing along!
- Sucker’s Prayer – The Decemberists
- Running Away – VANO 3000, BADBADNOTGOOD, Samuel T. Herring
- Dark Red – Steve Lacy
- Never Forget You – Noisettes
- More Than A Woman – Bees Gees
- Just The Two of Us (ft. Bill Withers) – Grover Washington
- It’s Tricky – Run – D.M.C.
- Cupid’s Choke / Breakfast in America – Gym Class Heroes
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Hip Hop/R&B
- Iko Iko (My Bestie) – Justin Wellington, Small Jam – The ultimate kids party song these days!!
- Put Me First – Witt Lowry, (feat. Josh Golden)
- Miss Summer – ODIE
- Always Afternoon – Medasin, Kathleen
- Motion – Luke Hemmings
- Where Are You Now – Lost Frequencies, Calum Scott
- Rain – grandson, Jessie Reyez
- Can’t Sleep – K.Flay
- papercuts – Machine Gun Kelly (Get The Top 100 Machine Gun Kelly Songs Here!!)
- Jalebi Baby – Tesher
- MIA (ft. Kaash Paige) – RAY BLK, Kaash Paige
- Shivers – Ed Sheeran
- ghost town (voice memo) – Chloe George
- ex I never had – LANY
- Oh No!!! – grandson, VIC MENSA, Masked Wolf
- Upside Down – JVKE
- Dancing in My Room – 347aidan
- Aritficial Intelligence – Band of Silver
- Acapulco – Jason Derulo
- Ain’t Got Soul – Radio Edit – Sweet Crisis
- New Normal – Khalid
- Into Your Arms ft. Ava Max – Witt Lowry
- Alors on danse – Stromae
- Inferno – Sub Urban, Bella Poarch
- Getup- Goodmorning Pancake
- Loverboy – A-Wall
- Beethoven – Keendog
- One Night – Griff
- Coastin’ – Victoria Monet
- Better Apart – Aaron Taos, Pink Skies
- Double Take – dhrub
- Strange – Celeste (This song transcends genres and should 100% make you feel like you’re in a movie!!)
- Formula – Labrinth
Older hip hop songs with an honorable mention:
- Trip – Ella Mai
- Like I Can – Sam Smith
- Desperado – Rihanna

Indie Music
As always – some new favorite indie tunes found their home on the September 2021 playlist. A new artist for us is Clinton Kane. So good!!
- The Few Things – JP Saxe
- Where’d All The Time Go? – Dr. Dog
- As The World Caves In – Sarah Cothran
- I Guess I’m In Love – Clinton Kane
- Sweater Weather – The Neighbourhood
- As The World Caves In – Wuki Remix – Sarah Cothran, Wuki
- The Hanging Tree (Rebel Remix) – James Newton Howard, Jennifer Lawrence

Alternative/Rock
- Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High? – Artic Monkeys
- God We Need You Now – Struggle Jennings, Caitlynne Curtis
- Vacation – Dirty Heads
- Kerosene Dreams – X Ambassadors
- Hey – Pixies (Sort of a rock and Roll vibe!)
- Someday – OneRepublic
As for an extra little bonus: we’ve added the ‘Gymnopedie No.1’ by Erik Satie and Phillippe Entremont to the September 2021 playlist! This instrumental song is an incredibly soothing song we’ve listened to while it rains recently!
Listen to the full September 2021 Road Trip Playlist: Kerosene Dreams here!
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