Outlaws

The official show title is “Bakersfield & Beyond:  Music for Mavericks, Outlaws, and Romantics.”  Tonight we explored the Outlaws.  In some way, the guys over in Bakersfield were Outlaws because they did music outside of the Nashville norm.  However, the folks associated with Outlaw Country were a bit scruffier and longer of hair than their more polished counterparts in Nashville, or even in Bakersfield.

There are a couple of stories about where the term “Outlaw Country” came from.  One is that David Allan Coe was a member of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club.  The other is that it came from the Lee Clayton song “Ladies Love Outlaw” sung by Waylon Jennings.  However, the term came in to being, there is no doubt that Outlaw Country is a whole lot more rocking that the country coming out of Nashville then or now.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bush Pilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
The Allman Brothers Band	Ramblin’ Man	Best of the Allman Brothers	universal records
Bob Dylan	Outlaw Blues	Bringing It All Back Home	Columbia
Dan Covill	Outlaw Country	Outlaw Country – Single	Crystal Records
Dan Fogelberg	The OutLaw	Analogue Pathways	Sony Music Entertainment
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Gimme Three Steps	The Best of Lynyrd Skynyrd	Geffen
The Marshall Tucker Band	Can’t You See	Outlaw Country	Legacy Recordings
Molly Hatchet	Flirtin’ With Disaster	Greatest Hits	Deadline Music
Waylon Jennings	Ladies Love Outlaws	The Essential Waylon Jennings	Sony Music Entertainment
Waylon Jennings	Honky Tonk Heroes	Honky Tonk Heroes	RCA Records Label Nashville
Waylon Jennings	Dont You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out of Hand	The Essential Waylon Jennings	Sony Music Entertainment
Wes St. Jon	Oilfield Outlaw	Oilfield Cowboy	Star-Key Records
Johnny Cash with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings & Kris Kristofferson	Highwayman	The Essential Johnny Cash	Columbia/Legacy
Hank Williams III	Country Heroes	Straight to Hell	Bruc Records
Emmylou Harris	Luxury Liner	Luxury Liner	Warner Bros.
Neko Case	Lady Pilot	Blacklisted	Anti/Epitaph
David Allan Coe	Need a Little Time Off for Bad Behavior	The Essential David Allan Coe	Sony
Dennis Olson	Truck Drivin’ Outlaw	Super 16 Hits: Keep On Truckin’	K-Tel
Hank Williams Jr.	Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound	That’s How We Do It in Dixie	Curb
Jackson Taylor & The Sinners	Outlaw Women	Dark Days	Smith Entertainment
Johnny Cash	I Walk The Line	Cash/The Legend	Sony/BMG
Gretchen Wilson	Here For The Party	The Very Best of Outlaw Country	MCA
Hank Williams Jr.	All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight	The Very Best of Outlaw Country	MCA
Jessi Colter	Why You Been Gone So Long	Outlaw Country	Legacy Recordings
Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings	Suspicious MInds	Wanted! Outlaws	BMG Entertainment
Johnny Paycheck	The Outlaw’s Prayer	The Soul & the Edge – The Best of Johnny Paycheck	Epic/legacy
Hank Williams	Ramblin’ Man	40 Greatest Hits	mercury
Jimmie Rodgers	Blue Yodel # 8 (Muleskinner Blues)	Blue Yodel – the Recorded Legacy	Synergie OMP
Ruby Dee & The Snakehandlers	Make It Last	North of Bakersfield	Dionysus

New Music Thursday

A lot of new music perfect for Bakersfield & Beyond showed up at the station recently.  Notables are Vince Gill & Paul Franklin “Bakersfield,” Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers self-titled CD, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants “All Hat & No Cattle,” Patricial Vonne “Rattle My Cage,” “The Big E, A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons,” and Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys “What A Dream It’s Been.”  Among the interesting tidbits are Chris Shiflett (you may know him from his other band The Foo Fighters) and it’s Big Sandy’s 25th year making music as Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys.  Congratulations!  The other pleasant surprise is the Vince Gill/Paul Franklin “Bakersfield” CD – a solid compilation of songs from Bakersfield Sound artists performed by country super-star, Vince Gill.

Artist	Cut	Album	Label
Tim Hus	Bakersfield Music	Bushpilot Buckaroo	Stony Plain Records
Patricia Vonne	This Cat’s In The Doghouse	Rattle My Cage	Bandolera
Nicki Bluhm And The Gramblers	Hey Stranger	Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers	Little Sur Records
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin	The Bottle Let Me Down	Bakersfield	MCA
Little Jimmy Dickens featuring Dan Dugmore & Duane Eddy	When Your House Is Not A Home	The Big E, A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons	MPI
Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants	Guitar Pickin’ Man	All Hat & No Cattle	Le Coq Napolean
Buck Nickels and Loose Change	Truck Drivin Man	Buck Nickels and Loose Change	Taman records,Dave Westerbeke
Maurice Tani/77 El Deora	Don’t Say It’s Over	Blue Line	Western Independent Recordings
Rusty Truck	Buildings	Kicker Town	self
Grant Langston	Working Until I Die	Working Until I Die	Grant Langston
Buck Owens	Victim of Life’s Circumstances	Buck Owens, The Warner Brothers Recordings	Warner Brothers
Claude King	Tiger Woman	Tiger Woman	Columbia
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers	Deep Water	Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers	Little Sur Records
Dwight Yoakam	It’s Never Alright	3 Pears	Warner Bros.
The Beat Farmers	Powderfinger	Tales of the New West	Rhino
The Flying Burrito Brothers	Sin City	Country & West Coast: The Birth of Country Rock	Big Beat Records
Dennis Payne	The Conscience of You	Bakersfield Rebels	Ace Records
Rusty Dean	Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint	Bakersfield Rebels	ace
Merle Haggard and the Strangers	Mama Tried	Mama Tried	Capitol
Vince Gill Featuring Paul Franklin & Tommy White	Country Boy	The Big E, A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons	MPI
Vince Gill & Paul Franklin	Branded Man	Bakersfield	MCA
Rocky Morgan and his Triple R Boys	You Can’t Rope a Steer in a Taxi	Swingbillies (Disk 1)	Ace Records
Gurf Morlix	Dan Blocker	Toad of Titicaca	Catamount
Dwight Yoakam	I’d Avoid Me Too	Population Me	Koch
Rosie Flores & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts	Chauffeur	Girl of the Century	Bloodshot Records
Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys	I Know I’ve Loved You Before	What A Dream It’s Been	Cow Island Music
Neko Case	Guided By Wire	Furnace Room Lullaby	Anti/Epitaph
JP Harris and the Tough Choices	I’m Stayin’ Here	I’ll Keep Calling	Cow Island Music
Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women	California’s Burning	Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women	Yep Roc
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers	Go Go Go	Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers	Little Sur Records
Joe Ely	White Line Fever	Tulare Dust: A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard	Hightone
Ruby Dee and The Snake Handlers	Make It Last	North of Bakersfield	Dionysus