Goodbye 2024, hello 2025. While some people might pop a bottle of champagne when the clock strikes midnight, planting a kiss on the one you love, for us country music-crazed folks, this is the chance to select precisely what song you want to fire up to set the tone for the new year. It could be something sad, happy, upbeat, or a classic. But the first song played in 2025 is a big deal to some folks. We asked folks on social media what their first choice was and have seen a wide variety of answers. https://www.instagram.com/p/DEQNrTFPMKX/ From Treaty Oak Revival to Flatland Cavalry (some of you might even be at their show in Fort Worth for New Year's Eve), Morgan Wallen, and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird," there is a wide variety of country music people are hoping to kick off 2025 to. And for you "Free Bird" fans, one user commented on the exact time to start the song if you really want to start 2025 on the right foot. "FREE BIRD. If you start it at 11:55:05, you can have a badass guitar solo at midnight!!! Imagine that AND a smooch." The more you know... While all of the artists listed in the comments section of our post are beyond acceptable, there is one song that also got some recognition and is genuinely one of the best to fire up first thing in 2025- Charlie Robison's "New Year's Day." Although the Texas singing and songwriting legend passed away in 2023, his legacy lives on through phenomenal tracks like "New Year's Day." The song, released in 2004 from his record Good Times, became one of his biggest hits. The song is the perfect way to kick off the new year as Robison sings about a man who woke up with a bit of extra change in his pocket and decided to go to Camino Espinoza, in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and let's just say, the lyrics are... colorful. A song that is written primarily about the Boy's Town neighborhood of Nuevo Laredo, it's essentially an ode to the "red light district" of the area where prostitution is legal and brothers are plentiful, and whatever other kinds of freaky sh*t you're into when the lights go out, you can find it there. We got references to the infamous Mexican "donkey shows," references to tranny bars and dancing girls, we're talking about the kind of debauchery that you have to leave the country for. I mean, is there a better way to go into 2025? "Went down Camino Espinoza Gonna get me a divorce I'm gonna split with all my money See that girl who loves a horse It's New Year's Day here on the border And it's always been this way I never do the things, I oughta I think I'll stay, it's New Year's Day" Of course, I'm not sure how safe the area is these days, especially after dark, but nevertheless, we wish you all a happy and healthy start to the new year... cheers to 2025 and great Texas country music. Fire this one up for Charlie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vouk3t_gm1M