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