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 July 22, 2023
- Playlist
- HOUR ONE
- I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train – Commander Cody – 1975
- It’s a Texas Thing – Gary P. Nunn – 2000
- Country Girl – Ozark Mountain Daredevils – 1972
- If You Wanna Get to Heaven – Ozark Mountain Daredevils – 1973
- You Mean to Say – Jessie Colter – 1976
- Hillbilly Highway – Steve Earle – 1986
- Cocaine Cowboy – Terry Allan – 1979
- I Still Sing the Sad Songs – DAC – 1977
- Make it Rain – Billy Mize – 2006
- Texas Cookin’ – Guy Clark – 1977
- We’re From Texas – Eleven Hundred Springs – 2011
- Glorieta – Matt Hillyer -2023
- Luckenbach Texas – The Highwaymen
- LA Freeway – Jerry Jeff Walker – 1972
- HOUR TWO
- Big City – Merle Haggard – 1981
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright – Ramblin’ Jack Eliot – 1968
- Midnight Rider – Willie Nelson – 1979
- Shotgun Willie – Willie Nelson – 1973
- The Old Violin – Johnny Paycheck – 1986
- Fire on the Mountain – Marshal Tucker – 1975
- Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound – Hank Williams Jr. – 1995
- Gonna Lay Me Down Beside My Memories – Sammi Smith – 1991
- Your Place or Mine – Gary Stewart – 1977
- Take Me Back to Tulsa – Asleep at the Wheel – 1972
- The Letter That Johnny Walker Read – Asleep at the Wheel – 1975
- Choo Choo Ch’ Boogie – Asleep at the Wheel – 2004
- Lay Down Sally – Asleep at the Wheel – 1995
- Half A Hundred Years – Asleep at the Wheel 2021