The Icons of Outlaw Country Show 048

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.

Air Date: February 10, 2024

PLAYLIST

HOUR ONE
Knoxville Courthouse Blues - Hank Williams Jr. – 1973
In Memory of a Memory - Johnny Paycheck – 1980
Stoned, Slow, Rugged – Rusty Weir – 1974
Panheads Forever – David Allan Coe – 1982
The Reaper – Devyn Brinsfield – 2023
Tonight, I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown - Jimmie Dale Gilmore - 1991
Riot in Cell Block #9 - Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airman - 1973
Boogie Back to Texas - Asleep at the Wheel – 1987
My Rough and Rowdy Ways - Lefty Frizzell – 1951
Marie - Willie Nelson – 2001
Waitin' Round to Die – Whitey Morgan and the 78's – 2015
Dead Flowers – Towns Van Zandt – 1972

HOUR TWO
Damn Good Cowboy - The Charlie Daniels Band – 1975
Blaze Foley – Cold, Cold World – 1979
Steve Goodman - Door Number Three – 1975
Lonesome L.A. Cowboy - New Riders of the Purple Sage – 1973
Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today (Live) - Merle Haggard – 1978
You Ain’t Gonna Have Ol’ Buck to Kick Around No More – Buck Owens & the Buckaroos – 1968
Truck Driven’ Son of a Gun – Red Simpson - 1981
LA Freeway – Guy Clark – 1975
A Long Time Ago – Waylon Jennings – 1978
Honky Tonkin' Daddy - Johnny Falstaff - 2008
One of These Days - Emmylou Harris – 1975
Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight - Emmylou Harris – 1978
Nashville 1972 - Rodney Crowell - 2017