The Icons of Outlaw Country #84

Each week John Wesley Karson shares the music and the stories of the icons of alternative country. He takes his listeners on a two hour sonic journey into what’s been dubbed “Outlaw Country.”

The Icons of Outlaw Country is a celebration of the bold individualism of a select few artists who dared to give Nashville the finger and do it their own way.

Playlist

HOUR ONE
Jerry Jeff Walker - Gypsy Songman - 1968
Towns van Zandt - Our Mother the Mountain – 1969
Willie Nelson - Marie – 2002
Guy Clark - Nickel for the Fiddler – 1975
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Cosmic Cowboy Pt. One – 1974
Ray Wiley Hubbard - Mother Blues – 2012
Creed Fisher - I Miss John Wayne – 2014
Waylon Jennings – My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - 1976
Shooter Jennings - The Real Me -2012
Duke Henry – Feelin’ Like Earnhardt – 2022
Steve Earle - Copperhead Road - 1988
Tompall Glaser & The Glaser Brothers - Happy Hour Blues –1982

HOUR TWO

Johnny Paycheck - Stay Away From the Cocaine Train - 1979
Hank Williams Jr. - In the Arms of Cocaine - 1983
Johnny Cash - When Uncle Bill Quit Dope - 1971
David Allan Coe - Cocaine Carolina - 1985
Commander Cody - Seeds & Stems - 1971
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Panama Red - 1973
Toby Keith - I’ll Never Smoke Weed W/ Willie Again (LIVE) - 2003
The Greezy Wheels (w. Willie Nelson and Jimmy Buffett) - Stay All Night, Stay a Little Longer - 1974
The Greezy Wheels - We Are Greezy – 2011
The Greezy Wheels – Mercury Blues – 2019
Willie Nelson – Texas in My Soul - 1968
Willie Nelson – Me & Paul – 1971
Billy Joe Shaver – The Devil Me Do It The First Time – 1987
David Allan Coe - The Ghost of Hank Williams – 1997