Rock Band Country Track Pack coming July 21

by Justin McElroy on May 12th 2009 10:40AM

We know that many of you will roll your eyes and scroll right along when we tell you that EA/MTV/Harmonix has just announced the stand-alone Rock Band Country Track Pack coming to 360, PS3, PS2 and Wii on July 21. That's fine, we understand. Even if you have a passing interest, you'll be able to check them all out when they eventually make their way to the Rock Band Music Store.

But before you go, you should know that the $30 pack of 21 songs includes one of the greatest recordings of all time, Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler." Sure, there are other songs on there, we've even put a list of the first few after the break. But if you boot up "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" before "The Gambler," we're going to cut off Travis Tritt's mullet and feed it to you.

Alan Jackson -- Good Time
Brooks & Dunn -- Hillbilly Deluxe
Dierks Bentley -- Free & Easy (Down the Road I Go)
Dixie Chicks -- Sin Wagon
Drive-By Truckers -- 3 Dimes Down
Jason Aldean -- She's Country
Kenny Chesney -- She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
Kenny Rogers -- The Gambler
Lucinda Williams -- Can't Let Go
Martina McBride -- This One's For the Girls
Rascal Flatts -- Me and My Gang
Shania Twain -- Any Man of Mine
Steve Earle -- Satellite Radio

Tags: country-track-pack, dlc, ea, Electronic-Arts, harmonix, Microsoft, music-games, Nintendo, rock-band, rock-band-country-track-pack, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (56)

My birthday is July 21st! "The Gambler" will be a very nice pressie :D

To top it all off, you could have your birthday party at Kenny Rogers Roasters too!

It's the wood that makes it good

July 21 birthdays in the house!

Needs Dwight Yoakum. Probably too much to wish for.

Agreed. Where is Hank Sr., Cash, Waylon, Willie,Patsy Cline, and Buck Owens?

I'm a little confused, what does it mean for it to be standalone? Does that mean I can download any of these?

It just means that you can play the tracks off the disc, with a stripped down version of the game included. That's cool because it means people who don't own Rock Band can pick this up for cheaper than a full-price game and play it. And of course, if it's for a next-gen console, you'll also be able to use a code to link it your PSN/XBox account and export the tracks off the disc to be stored on your console as Rock Band DLC, which is all most people use these things for.

Oh I see, thanks.

If you're gonna play the Gameboy, you gotta learn to play it right.

Ooh, that was good!

You gotta know when to hold 'em

know when to fold 'em

Islands in the stream, that is what we are...

Comin from afar, reaching for the stars.

Oh... oops.

Needs 2 people. Brad Paisley and Keith Urban, those are the best country guitarists.

Definitely Brad paisley and George Strait. I've never listened to Keith Urban. Not that George Strait is a guitar player much, but you could play the breaks of his band. Hey, I want a pedal steel controller. Maybe there already is one? I don't have Rock Band cause I don have a console. But I'm always tempted whenever I go in to Best Buy.

Keith Urban is not country, they can save him for a pop pack...

they actually are coming out with keith urban's "I Told You So" its one of the add ons that you download

Where's Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts? >_>

seeing that there won't be many post on this i felt it was a good time to ask. How do you contact joystiq with questions and/or comments? What's their email address I can't' find it anywhere!

Hey, you can email tips at joystiq dot com, or our email addresses are on the right side of the page.

Thank you I see the "tips" spot.

Why couldn't they put any other of Shania Twain's hits in the pack?
That don't impress me much.

So you're a MrSpaceCowboy...

that don't impress me much!

Well played sir. I have been defeated and emasculated.

Man, I feel like a woman.

Don't worry,

You're still the one

As a long time fan of Country Music I have to say WTF on a lot of this. Alan Jackson has a least 10 songs I would put before good time "Chattahoochee" would make a great rock band song(the orginal studio cut from A lot about livin'). Brooks & Dunn It has to be "Boot Scootin' Boogie". And come on you have Dierks Bentley and its not "What was I thinking" FAIL I SAY FAIL

Then again other than that its an ok list but those are major failures in my book and "the Gamber" is a good pickup

I agree, what is this mix of random crap?! I can think of plenty of better country songs with good guitar work. It seems this was put together by a bunch of suits that don't listen to country simply going through tracks and deciding "the guitar on this one sounds good."

eh.. I'll just wait for The Gambler on its own.

The people that buy this need to be put on a list and subsequently sterilized.

Run, there is a ghost here!

I'm not really a country fan, but the two 5-packs they put on DLC had some pretty catchy tunes that were fun to play. If you can get your stick out of the mud this ought to be a worthwhile purchase.

I sure hope they make these other tracks available through DLC in a pack. I have all but 7 of the tracks listed, and if it winds up being just those 7 tracks, buying them as DLC would be much cheaper for me than $30.

Best thing to ever happen, in history. x911

have to tell my twin that rb has the gambler. all rb needs now is island in the stream and my mum cud ply lol

I want life is a highway!

Please include The Devil Came Down to Georgia. I would break my fingers trying to play the fiddle part.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr Conway Twitty...

Also, I need some Johnny Cash up ins, promptly.

Where have I been all day? Oh yeah, that's right. Meetings.

Great variety here. I'd love to see more of this kind of thing. I don't know how this stuff sells, but it spreads the audience around better than the metal fest we endured a few months ago.

I hate to do a little shameless self-promotion, but stop by and check out www.gamblertuesday.com

Every Tuesday, you can get your dose of The Gambler performed by various artists.

With that said, just to get my hands on The Gambler makes me want to go out and pick up Rock Band 2.

Wow, I don't think a better website exist.

I am dead serious that is awesome!

Is there a complete song listing? The top shows only like 12 of the 21. Or is it not released yet? Thanks!

Ah, a country pack. Nice. :] I look forward to it (and the rest of the listing).
Still awaiting a Motown pack though.

Will definitely pick this up just for "The Gambler.." Yeah, this coming from a big metalhead like me. It's such a great song from the days when mainstream country music was still good.

I just can't get into the crap that seems to pass for it these days. All of these new songs I hear on the rare occasion I brave the local country station sound like dime-a-dozen pop songs about how "country" the singer is. The genre is in dire need of a revival. Will there ever be another Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Jr, Willie Nelson or, yes, Kenny Rogers?

Doesn't kenny rogers make chicken?

Oh YES! Alan Jackson! Haha I can't believe it.

I want The Gambler, but I'm not buying this pack for one $2 song.

I sure as hell hope these are available individually because I'm not a country music fan.

I am not the biggest country fan but I still can't believe they have not put together a Kenny Chesney pack. Summertime, Beer in Mexico, When the Sun Goes Down, I Go Back. It would sell really well. So they finally get a Kenny Chesney song and it is from his older period before he became huge. Lame

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