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 October 21, 2023
Playlist
Hour One
- “Outlaw You” – Shooter Jennings (2005)
- “Ramblin’ Man” – Hank Williams Jr. (1995)
- “Long Haired Redneck” – David Allan Coe (1975)
- “Misery and Gin” – Merle Haggard (1980)
- “Screw You We’re From Texas” – Ray Wylie Hubbard (2006)
- “Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother” – Ray Wylie Hubbard (1978)
- “Lonesome, On’ry and Mean” – Steve Young (1972)
- “The Devils Right Hand” – Steve Earle (1988)
- “Redheaded Stranger” – Willie Nelson (1975)
- “Luckenbach, Texas” – Waylon Jennings (1977)
- “When You Come Home Again” – Freda & The Firedogs (1972)
- “Muleshoe” – Freda & The Firedogs (1973)
- “Amos Moses” – Jerry Reed (1970)
Hour Two
- “Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye” – The Charlie Daniels Band (1985)
- “If Drinking Don’t Kill Me (Her Memory Will)” – George Jones (1972)
- “North Alabama” – Dave Kirby (1981)
- “Is Anybody Goin’ To San Antone?” – Charlie Pride (1970)
- “Her and the Car and the Mobile Home” – Del Reeves (1976)
- “White Freight Liner Blues” – Townes Van Zandt (1973)
- “Dead Flowers” – Townes Van Zandt (1970)
- “Waking Up” – Michael Martin Murphey (1972)
- “I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight” – Jerry Jeff Walker (2006)
- “Sangria Wine” – Jerry Jeff Walker (1973)
- “Take Me back To Tulsa” – Asleep at the Wheel (1973)
- “Kinky” – Kinky Friedman (1974)