Outlaw Country
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- The Basics
It all started the day Waylon Jennings (“Honky Tonk Heroes”) walked into a studio with a fistful of Billy Joe Shaver songs and a contract that guaranteed him total creative control. The system was bucked, and “outlaw country” was born. This is country music played with the freedom that rock ’n’ roll promised — by artists who defined the original outlaw movement and a few young guns who’re still raising a finger to the confines of Nashville. Willie Nelson (“Whiskey River”) reinvented himself with a 1971 move from Nashville to Austin, Texas, where he hooked up with the likes of Jerry Jeff Walker (“Pissin’ In the Wind”) and that fella Shaver (“Georgia On a Fast Train”).
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Name Artist Time Price 1 Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings 3:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Whiskey River Willie Nelson 4:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Desperadoes Waiting for a Train Guy Clark 4:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Copperhead Road Steve Earle 4:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) Kris Kristofferson 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Family Tradition Hank Williams, Jr. 4:00 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Pancho and Lefty Willie Nelson 4:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Take This Job and Shove It Johnny Paycheck 2:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 You Never Even Called Me By My Name David Allan Coe 5:15 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Long Haired Country Boy The Charlie Daniels Band 4:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 I'm Not Lisa (special guest appearance by Jessi Colter) Waylon Jennings 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Pancho and Lefty Townes Van Zandt 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown Jimmy Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Georgia On a Fast Train Billy Joe Shaver 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Pissin' In the Wind Jerry Jeff Walker 3:59 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 4th of July Shooter Jennings & George Jones 4:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 T-R-O-U-B-L-E Travis Tritt 3:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 I Don't Know Hank Williams III 3:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Help Me Make It Through the Night Sammi Smith 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 L.A. Freeway Guy Clark 4:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely 3:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Try and Try Again Billy Joe Shaver 3:38 $0.69 View In iTunes 23 Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Remastered) Waylon Jennings 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 24 That's the Way Love Goes Johnny Rodriguez 1:53 $1.29 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Next Steps
Outlaw country was always about the people who said what they wanted instead of singing what a Nashville song-pusher picked for them. From the leftfield worldview offered by Willie Nelson on his finest album, Shotgun Willie, to the political firestorms ignited by Steve Earle — the man who would pick up and brandish the moniker “hardcore troubadour” — this is country music without constraints, made by artists who seem to take a perverse joy in picking fights with the public’s expectations. Steve Young (here wielding the superbly titled “Switchblades of Love”) never made it big in his own right, but wrote the title track on Waylon Jennings’ seminal 1973 outlaw album, Lonesome, On’ry and Mean, and was influential in forging the movement’s identity.
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Name Artist Time Price 1 Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain Willie Nelson 2:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Sold American Kinky Friedman 3:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 John Walker's Blues Steve Earle 3:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound Hank Williams, Jr. 3:09 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 I'm the Only Hell (My Mama Ever Raised) Johnny Paycheck 3:09 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Hard-Core Troubadour Steve Earle 2:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 7 Drink Canada Dry David Allan Coe 2:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Up Against the Wall, Red Neck (Live (1973/Luckenbach, TX)) Jerry Jeff Walker 4:32 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down Kris Kristofferson 4:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 Blue Devil Hank Williams III 3:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 Texas Cookin' Guy Clark 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Shotgun Willie Willie Nelson 2:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 She Never Spoke Spanish to Me Joe Ely 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Black Sheep John Anderson 3:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Me and Paul Waylon Jennings 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Solid Country Gold Shooter Jennings 3:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 Like a Coat from the Cold Jerry Jeff Walker 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 The Ride David Allan Coe 3:08 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Me and Paul Willie Nelson 3:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Old Five and Dimers (Like Me) Waylon Jennings 3:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 I'm a Long Gone Daddy Hank III 3:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 I Ain't Living Long Like This Jerry Jeff Walker 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 22 Songs - Deep Cuts
The creative explosion sparked by the early-’70s outlaws still resonates with artists today. But it also has a backwards effect, shedding light on dudes like Townes Van Zandt, who had been playing by their own rules all along but gained new fans whose minds had been opened by the success of Waylon, Willie, and anyone else who found inspiration where blues, folk, country, and rock collided. And don’t forget — despite the spit ’n’ sawdust core of the movement, not all country outlaws were men; Jessi Colter, here singing a rocked-up “Fireflies In the Storm” with Tony Joe White, was married to Jennings but earned her outlaw credentials on her own merits, while Sammi Smith told it how it was, no punches pulled, on tough tracks like “Birmingham Mistake.”
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Name Artist Time Price 1 Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Remastered) Waylon Jennings 2:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 If He Came Back Again The Highwaymen 3:34 $1.29 View In iTunes 3 Bloody Mary Morning Willie Nelson 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico Johnny Rodriguez 2:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 King of All the World Old 97's 2:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 If You Don't Like Hank Williams Hank Williams, Jr. 2:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 You Ought to Be With Me When I'm Alone Billy Joe Shaver 3:42 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Comfort and Crazy Jerry Jeff Walker 3:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 9 Fireflies In the Storm Tony Joe White & Jessi Colter 4:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 10 The Last Gunfighter Ballad Guy Clark 2:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 11 Dreaming My Dreams With You Cowboy Jack Clement 2:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 The Taker Shel Silverstein 3:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Trapped In an Old Country Song Cowboy Jack Clement 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Get Your Biscuits In the Oven and Your Buns In Bed Kinky Friedman 2:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Whiteman's Watermelon Billy Joe Shaver 3:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 16 Tennessee's Not the State I'm In Joe Ely 3:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 From the Bottle to the Bottom Kris Kristofferson 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 18 Right Where I Belong The Flatlanders 4:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 19 Busted In Baylor County Shooter Jennings 3:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 Birmingham Mistake Sammi Smith 2:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Baby Do You Love Me Still? The Flatlanders 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories John Anderson 3:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 23 Screw You, We're from Texas Ray Wylie Hubbard 4:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 24 Willie Sammi Smith 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 25 Waitin' 'Round to Die Townes Van Zandt 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 25 Songs - Complete Set
In the early ’70s, the creative freedom that drove rock ’n’ roll rode into Nashville. Waylon Jennings fired the first shot, taking control of his music from country music’s mafia of producers, writers, and song-pluggers. His example was followed by mavericks like Willie Nelson (“Pancho and Lefty”), Kris Kristofferson (“Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down”), and David Allan Coe (“Drink Canada Dry”), who turned up their amps and played to crowds where hippies and rednecks stood side-by-side. Their predecessors, peers, and progeny are all here, singing the songs that rocked the country establishment to its core. Here, we give you the movement’s pioneers and standard-bearers . . . and if you’re wondering if the outlaw spirit is alive and kickin’ in the 21st century, just cue up Shooter Jennings (son of Waylon and Jessi Colter) on “4th of July” (featuring old-timer George Jones). Those Nashville rules weren’t broke for nothing.
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Name Artist Time Price 1 Honky Tonk Heroes Waylon Jennings 3:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 2 Whiskey River Willie Nelson 4:07 $0.99 View In iTunes 3 Desperadoes Waiting for a Train Guy Clark 4:32 $0.99 View In iTunes 4 Copperhead Road Steve Earle 4:29 $1.29 View In iTunes 5 Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again) Kris Kristofferson 3:47 $0.99 View In iTunes 6 Family Tradition Hank Williams, Jr. 4:00 $1.29 View In iTunes 7 Pancho and Lefty Willie Nelson 4:46 $0.99 View In iTunes 8 Take This Job and Shove It Johnny Paycheck 2:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 9 You Never Even Called Me By My Name David Allan Coe 5:15 $1.29 View In iTunes 10 Long Haired Country Boy The Charlie Daniels Band 4:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 11 I'm Not Lisa (special guest appearance by Jessi Colter) Waylon Jennings 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes 12 Pancho and Lefty Townes Van Zandt 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 13 Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown Jimmy Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders 2:43 $0.99 View In iTunes 14 Georgia On a Fast Train Billy Joe Shaver 2:56 $0.99 View In iTunes 15 Pissin' In the Wind Jerry Jeff Walker 3:59 $1.29 View In iTunes 16 4th of July Shooter Jennings & George Jones 4:25 $0.99 View In iTunes 17 T-R-O-U-B-L-E Travis Tritt 3:01 $1.29 View In iTunes 18 I Don't Know Hank Williams III 3:23 $1.29 View In iTunes 19 Help Me Make It Through the Night Sammi Smith 2:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 20 L.A. Freeway Guy Clark 4:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 21 Honky Tonk Masquerade Joe Ely 3:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 22 Try and Try Again Billy Joe Shaver 3:38 $0.69 View In iTunes 23 Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (Remastered) Waylon Jennings 2:33 $1.29 View In iTunes 24 That's the Way Love Goes Johnny Rodriguez 1:53 $1.29 View In iTunes 25 Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain Willie Nelson 2:19 $0.99 View In iTunes 26 Sold American Kinky Friedman 3:17 $0.99 View In iTunes 27 John Walker's Blues Steve Earle 3:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 28 Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound Hank Williams, Jr. 3:09 $1.29 View In iTunes 29 I'm the Only Hell (My Mama Ever Raised) Johnny Paycheck 3:09 $0.99 View In iTunes 30 Hard-Core Troubadour Steve Earle 2:41 $0.99 View In iTunes 31 Drink Canada Dry David Allan Coe 2:35 $0.99 View In iTunes 32 Up Against the Wall, Red Neck (Live (1973/Luckenbach, TX)) Jerry Jeff Walker 4:32 $1.29 View In iTunes 33 Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down Kris Kristofferson 4:30 $0.99 View In iTunes 34 Blue Devil Hank Williams III 3:19 $1.29 View In iTunes 35 Texas Cookin' Guy Clark 3:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 36 Shotgun Willie Willie Nelson 2:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 37 She Never Spoke Spanish to Me Joe Ely 3:34 $0.99 View In iTunes 38 Black Sheep John Anderson 3:08 $0.99 View In iTunes 39 Me and Paul Waylon Jennings 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 40 Solid Country Gold Shooter Jennings 3:04 $0.99 View In iTunes 41 Like a Coat from the Cold Jerry Jeff Walker 3:33 $0.99 View In iTunes 42 The Ride David Allan Coe 3:08 $1.29 View In iTunes 43 Me and Paul Willie Nelson 3:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 44 Old Five and Dimers (Like Me) Waylon Jennings 3:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 45 I'm a Long Gone Daddy Hank III 3:37 $0.99 View In iTunes 46 I Ain't Living Long Like This Jerry Jeff Walker 3:10 $0.99 View In iTunes 47 Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Remastered) Waylon Jennings 2:54 $0.99 View In iTunes 48 If He Came Back Again The Highwaymen 3:34 $1.29 View In iTunes 49 Bloody Mary Morning Willie Nelson 3:16 $0.99 View In iTunes 50 Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico Johnny Rodriguez 2:06 $1.29 View In iTunes 51 King of All the World Old 97's 2:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 52 If You Don't Like Hank Williams Hank Williams, Jr. 2:55 $1.29 View In iTunes 53 You Ought to Be With Me When I'm Alone Billy Joe Shaver 3:42 $0.99 View In iTunes 54 Comfort and Crazy Jerry Jeff Walker 3:13 $1.29 View In iTunes 55 Fireflies In the Storm Tony Joe White & Jessi Colter 4:18 $0.99 View In iTunes 56 The Last Gunfighter Ballad Guy Clark 2:50 $0.99 View In iTunes 57 Dreaming My Dreams With You Cowboy Jack Clement 2:39 $0.99 View In iTunes 58 The Taker Shel Silverstein 3:14 $0.99 View In iTunes 59 Trapped In an Old Country Song Cowboy Jack Clement 2:49 $0.99 View In iTunes 60 Get Your Biscuits In the Oven and Your Buns In Bed Kinky Friedman 2:28 $0.99 View In iTunes 61 Whiteman's Watermelon Billy Joe Shaver 3:31 $0.99 View In iTunes 62 Tennessee's Not the State I'm In Joe Ely 3:03 $0.99 View In iTunes 63 From the Bottle to the Bottom Kris Kristofferson 2:58 $0.99 View In iTunes 64 Right Where I Belong The Flatlanders 4:06 $0.99 View In iTunes 65 Busted In Baylor County Shooter Jennings 3:52 $0.99 View In iTunes 66 Birmingham Mistake Sammi Smith 2:48 $0.99 View In iTunes 67 Baby Do You Love Me Still? The Flatlanders 2:55 $0.99 View In iTunes 68 I Just Came Home to Count the Memories John Anderson 3:45 $0.99 View In iTunes 69 Screw You, We're from Texas Ray Wylie Hubbard 4:02 $0.99 View In iTunes 70 Willie Sammi Smith 3:05 $0.99 View In iTunes 71 Waitin' 'Round to Die Townes Van Zandt 3:12 $0.99 View In iTunes Total: 71 Songs
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