Waylon Jennings – Waymore’s Blues
#OutlawCountry
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/115526965685377316
" Then #AIGeneratedContent came for your #OutlawCountry and .... you did nothing.... 🐄🐮🤖🤠 "
Peaceful Blue Waters – The Day I Quit the Race. A runaway soul chasing peace instead of paychecks.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvPS3XP6d9a0EruAyxlv_g
A runaway soul chasing peace instead of paychecks. “He left the race, found a slower place… somewhere by peaceful blue waters.” An outlaw’s reflection on freedom, faith, and finding calm after chaos. #ElvisNash #OutlawCountry #Americana #PeacefulBlueWaters #SingerSongwriter #letitkillyou #ElvisNash…
Sometimes greed is worse than being poor. “Wanting Less” is a hard truth wrapped in a simple song
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvPS3XP6d9a0EruAyxlv_g
"‘Wanting Less’ cuts deep into the truth that sometimes greed leaves you emptier than being broke ever could — a reminder that peace don’t come from owning more, it comes from needing less. #ElvisNash #WantingLess #OutlawCountry #Americana #CountrySongwriter #Greed #Truth #SimpleLife #CountryMusic #HonkyTonkSoul…
“Highways, Sins, and Dashboard Jesus”
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvPS3XP6d9a0EruAyxlv_g
He’s been ridin’ shotgun through every storm — plastic smile, cracked halo, and faith hangin’ by a thread. #ElvisNash #DashboardJesus #OutlawCountry #AmericanaMusic #CountryShorts #SingerSongwriter #RoadSong #HonkyTonkHeart #FaithAndWhiskey #realcountry #ElvisNash #DashboardJesus #CountrySoul #AmericanaMusic #FaithAndWhiskey #BrokenHalos #HighwayPrayers #RoadToRedemption…
“How Many Rodeos ‘Til You Break” —
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXvPS3XP6d9a0EruAyxlv_g
How many rodeos does it take to break a cowboy? Dust, whiskey, and heartache tell the story better than words ever could. #ElvisNash #OutlawCountry #HowManyRodeos #AmericanaMusic #CountryShorts #RodeoLife #SingerSongwriter #HonkyTonkSoul #whiskeyanddust #ElvisNash #OutlawCountry #RodeoSong #Americana #CountryShorts #SingerSongwriter #WhiskeyAndDust #HonkyTonkHeart #RealCountry…
The Highwomen Play “Highwomen”
Listen to this track by universally lauded country music supergroup The Highwomen, comprised of acclaimed solo artists in their own rights Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris. It’s “Highwomen” the almost-title track to the group’s 2019 self-titled record and featuring the powerful vocal talents of guest artist and honourary Highwoman Yola. This cut is a cover version cum answer tune to the Jimmy Webb-composed song “Highwayman” recorded first by Glen Campbell in 1978. It was perhaps even more famously performed by The Highwaymen in 1985, yet another supergroup made up of Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash.
Both that group and this song inspired The Highwomen and became the central fulcrum of their collaboration between the four principal members. Jimmy Webb approved of the re-write, adapted by Carlile and Shires as principal co-writers. This refashioned cut is a deeper expression of some of the themes in the Highwaymen version of the song, with new characters and their perspectives that preserves the spirit of Webb’s tune and equaling its gravitas. It also builds upon it, and renders up some new insights and powerful dimensions that lend vital contrast to the original.
The Highwaymen version tells the story of four characters from different points in history; a bandit, a sailor, a dam builder, and a starship captain. All of these characters are more than their single stories. They are symbols for daring and bravery, with a heavy dollop of outlawry for good measure. Seeing as Kristofferson, Jennings, Nelson, and Cash are the celebrated figureheads of the outlaw country movement, this is very on-brand. When they give voice to romantic figures who challenge the world as death-defying, risk-taking mavericks, listeners are reminded of the kinds of myths on which whole nations are built. It’s not the men who live forever. It’s the ideals for which those men stand that do. Their immortal spirit of heroism is recognized immediately.
When the re-imagined song by The Highwomen came out as a single in September of 2019, some quarters of the music press erroneously labelled it as a “gender-swapped take on the original”, meaning the Highwaymen version. This isn’t quite the case, although there are some common elements when one compares the two versions. As in the original, the refashioned song is broken up into four sections with each one dedicated to a character. Also much like the original, there is a whiff of the outlaw and defiant spirit about all of them. The immigrant mother and her family steal across a border. The healer is accused of witchcraft. The freedom rider defies segregation laws. And the preacher is simply a woman whose role in ministry leadership stands in opposition to patriarchal religious hierarchies.
Here’s where a comparison between the two sets of stories depart. Instead of being celebrated for their rebellion against the status quo, their lives are marked by external oppression, injustice, and isolation instead. Where the male characters in the Highwaymen version go out in blazes of glory as symbols of defiant bravery, the women characters in the newer version of the song go unheralded, uncelebrated, and unrecorded. No myths are built on their memories. No flags wave because of their resistance to oppression. So, the idea that this song is a simple gender-swap is much too simple to be true. In fact, when one compares one version with the other, the disparity of how rebellion and spirits of independence are presented and then processed through disparate cultural lenses can be striking.
The Highwomen, from left: Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Natalie Hemby, and Maren Morris. images: Kirk Stauffer, Justin Higuchi, CreativeNation1, and ToglennThis isn’t just about history and myth. It’s also about the modern world. One of the reasons that The Highwomen came together was the inequality each member found in country music’s establishment. Their existence as a group is in part a comment on and reaction to the existing landscape where “female singer-songwriters” have been pigeonholed and sidelined as a niche subgenre instead of being counted among the best representatives of the music. The larger picture here is about who is celebrated as a pioneer and example of the best the music has to offer and who gets lost in the shuffle as one who doesn’t know her place in the hierarchy.
Besides these troubling trends in the music industry, the song casts light on what we consider to be the best examples of rebellion and rabble rousing strength. It’s about how mainstream society embraces certain myths in history, and remains unaware of how diverse heroism can be and in what forms it can take. Is a man a hero when he lives by his wits by stealing from the rich along the coach roads? Is the woman who gives her life by getting her children across a border to flee political violence also a hero? Why might the first symbol of rebellion be perceived as a romantic outlaw, while the other is condemned as an “illegal”? If defiance of laws isn’t the difference between the two, then what is? The answer may be obvious.
One factor that is common between the stories heard in the two versions is the indominable human spirit that enables people and societies to survive, even in harsh and risky circumstances. In this, both songs are celebrations of the human capacity to overcome, even when individuals give their lives for the sake of the common good, in the protection of an ideal, or in defence of the innocent. Yet, that point about isolation is also common in the eight stories we hear in both versions of Jimmy Webb’s song. So is the suggestion that systems we’ve put in place over the course of history have made it harder for people to thrive. As much as we may celebrate the heroic and pioneering spirits found in each story, many of them are in the context of suffering and injustice.
As much as both songs inspire both rage and admiration, it makes one wonder why some heroes are celebrated while others go unacknowledged or even become demonized. If the spirits of courage that each character represents in the verses of each version of the song are immortal, then may they continue to inspire us to take risks and reach for greatness. But may they also make us think about what we miss when we fail to examine the passive violence of our devised systems that keep people in their place while those systems harden our hearts against the possibility of change. In pushing against this, and in seeing the irreplaceable value in every human life as a result, we have a chance at heroism ourselves.
The Highwomen is an open-ended collaboration between four country music exemplars and their musical guests. You can visit thehighwomen.com for videos, merch, and upcoming news.
To learn more about how the group came together, check out this 2019 article from Exclaim.ca.
For more on Jimmy Webb and how he wrote the original song , check out this brief history of “Highwayman” on grunge.com.
Lastly, check out Glen Campbell’s version of the song that came out before either version discussed here. In his take, Campbell sings all the characters himself, losing none of the song’s gravitas and emotional impact.
Enjoy!
#2010sMusic #Americana #CountryMusic #outlawCountry #TheHighwomen #Yola
RIP #JerryJeffWalker who passed away 5 years ago today. His 70s work with the #LostGonzoBand once gave a good name to blissful & beautifully lazyass TX hippiedom.
#NowPlaying #CountryRock #OutlawCountry #CosmicCowboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o26HgKCcT0&list=RD6o26HgKCcT0&start_radio=1
Copperhead Road
The Hardcore Troubadour releases his third album on October 17, 1988. Rolling Stone calls it "power twang." Earle calls it "the world's first blend of heavy metal and bluegrass." I call it necessary for anyone's vinyl collection. Listen to Copperhead Road by Steve Earle on Amazon Music ... #steveearle #copperheadroad #countryrock #hardrock #outlawcountry #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky
They say you'll get it when you're older
But I just understand it less
How's the world so god damn ugly
The older that I get
#BryanAndrews, The Older That I Get
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfx1vN4rVHI
#music #country #countryMusic #outlawCountry #gaza #fuckICE #fuckTrump #protest
Prine.
A legend’s birthday – John Prine (b October 10, 1946.) Blow up your TV ... eat a lot of peaches ... try an' find Jesus on your own" Play some Prine. Everyday. John Prine accepts the artist of the year award during the Americana Honors and Awards show Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski) ORG XMIT: TNMH151 Listen to my John Prine playlist on Amazon Music ... #johnprine #americana #folk #folkrock #outlawcountry #rock #rockmusic…
http://robinbannks.com/2025/10/10/a-legends-birthday-john-prine-b-october-10/
@RickiTarr post 9/11 country certainly helped push us towards the point we're at now. I'm ok if these folks want to try to reverse some of that damage.
#YeehawAntifa #ACABCountry #FriendsInLowPlaces #OutlawCountry #WWJCD #WhatWouldJohnnyCashDo
If you want true, down-home country music, with fiddles and all, you can't do better than Season 5 of Archer - a Miami Vice parody with some amazingly good country songs:
"Got too much time and nowhere to go
But I drink enough to say hello
I'm not in love with anyone
But I'm high enough not to give a fuck"
Cherlene - Midnight Blues (audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aTVFa2FzEU
Another one:
Cherlene - Straight To Hell (audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM2mDHJ--5Y
You want outlaw country?
I’ll give you some damn outlaw country … DAC. (born September 6, 1939) DAC became known as the "outlaw's outlaw" for his unconventional, rebellious, and wild image, which included performing in a rhinestone suit and a Lone Ranger-style mask. And a few other things ... but we'll leave that to the urban legend crowd. Listen to my David Allan Coe playlist on Amazon Music ... #davidallancoe #birthday #classiccountry #outlawcountry #country #music…
http://robinbannks.com/2025/09/06/you-want-outlaw-country-ill-give-you-outlaw/
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#BraveWords–WhereMusicLives
FANGSLINGER Reveals “We Are The Night” Video
https://bravewords.com/news/fangslinger-reveals-we-are-the-night-video/
#FangSlinger #WeAreTheNight #BritishRock #HangMan #HardRock #OutlawCountry #GothicAmericana #RockTrio #NewSingle #MusicVideo
Another AI & #Spotify fuck up:
https://www.thefader.com/2025/07/22/spotify-ai-generated-blaze-foley-song
Blaze Foley made great music during his short run. It's insane that this can happen.
Sorry for the strong language, news like this really make me mad.
When my runnin' days are over
My work on earth is through
I hope the words I sang brought peace
And melodies rang true
And no longer I'll be wonderin'
Where all this wonderin' might lead
Out here singin' for the others like me
#CodyJinks - The Others
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