The Icons of Outlaw Country #098

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.

Original Air Date: February 1, 2025

HOUR ONE
Willie Nelson – Uncloudy Day –1976
Jerry Reed – Mule Skinner Blues –1970
Jerry Jeff Walker – Navajo Rug – 2006
Johnny Paycheck & Merle Haggard - Turnin’ Off A Memory –1980
Merle Haggard – I’m A White Boy – 1977
Loretta & Conway – You’re the Reason Our Kids Ugly – 1978
Sturgill Simpson – I Don’t Mind – 2020
Rusty Cage -- Johnny Cash – 1996
Flying Burrito Brothers – Do You Know How It Feels – 1969
Don Williams - I Believe In You – 1980
Don Williams – Amanda - 1973
Don Williams - Good Ole Boys Like Me - 1979
Guy Clark – Dublin Blues - 1995
Gary P. Nunn - [I've Got] A Long, Long Way To Go – 1997

HOUR TWO
The Charlie Daniels Band – Damn Good Cowboy - 1975
Blaze Foley – Cold, Cold World – 1979
Steve Goodman - Door Number Three –1975
Lonesome L.A. Cowboy - New Riders Of The Purple Sage – 1973
Merle Haggard – Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (Live) - 1978
Buck Owens & the Buckaroos – You Ain’t Gonna Have Ol’ Buck to Kick Around No More –1968
Red Simpson – Truck Driven’ Son of a Gun – 1981
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airman - Riot in Cell Block #9 - 1973
Asleep At The Wheel – Boogie Back To Texas - 1987
Lefty Frizzell – My Rough and Rowdy Ways - 1951
Willie Nelson – Marie - 2001
Whitey Morgan and the 78's – Waitin' Round to Die – 2015
Towns Van Zandt – Dead Flowers –1972