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The longest country track of all time is a whopping 42 minutes.
Some artists in the genre have recorded lengthy songs over the years, including Eric Church’s “Devil, Devil (Prelude: Princess Of Darkness)” on The Outsiders album in 2013, spanning about 8 minutes. Ray Wylie Hubbard’s “Choctaw Bingo” on his 2005 record, Delirium Tremolos, exceeds 8 minutes. Zac Brown Band released “Who Knows” on You Get What You Give in 2010, reaching about 10 minutes, just to name a few.
However, none of those run times come close to “Hidden Track.”
“Hidden Track” appears on singer-songwriter Hank Williams III’s studio album, Straight to Hell, which released in 2006. The track surpasses every other lengthy song in the genre with a 42-minute run time, packed with experimental, ambient sounds with acoustic renditions by Hank3 peppered throughout the track. Williams III, known for his genre-blending style, received the first parental advisory warning sticker on a country album with the early 2000s project.
The longest song to be officially released in any genre is “Shri Ram Charit Manas” by Dr. Pillai, a writer, researcher and motivational speaker who sang an entire book by poet Goswami Tulsidas, per Guinness World Records, noting that the record was achieved last year. It took Pillai more than four years to record “Shri Ram Charit Manas,” which spans 138 hours, 41 minutes and 20 seconds.