Country Girl (Primal Scream song)


"Country Girl" is a song by the band Primal Scream. It was released as a single on 22 May 2006 and is the first released from the band's eighth album Riot City Blues. After a successful debut on the downloads chart, the single jumped to number five in its first full week of release, becoming the band's highest-charting in the United Kingdom as well as their first UK top-five entry and their third top-ten single. In the band's native Scotland, the song reached number three on the Scottish Singles Chart, becoming their most successful single since "Kowalski" in 1997. Elsewhere, the song reached the top 20 in Finland and Ireland and was a modest success in Sweden. "Country Girl" was released to American radio on July 25, 2006.
The song was frequently used by ITV during their coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, alongside the Kasabian cover version of David Bowie's "Heroes" and Valerie by The Zutons. It also features as the theme tune of The Janice Long Review Show.
The song was covered by Irish actress Jessie Buckley for the 2019 country music drama film Wild Rose.

Track listing

7" single
  1. "Country Girl"
  2. "Gimme Some Truth"
CD1
  1. "Country Girl"
  2. "To Live Is To Fly"
CD2
  1. "Country Girl"
  2. "Stone Ya To The Bone"
  3. "Gimme Some Truth"
  4. "Country Girl"

    Music video

The girl featured in the video is inspired by Baby from Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses / The Devil's Rejects. The music video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts