Ladies Love Outlaws

Ladies love Outlaws...don't they?

I've noticed a bunch of the legacy(nice word for old) country stars and DJs complain about the quality of songs nowdays.

They're wrong. Plan and simple.

Here's the truth: It's not the quality of songs that missing, it's the rivalry that's gone. Gone are the Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cashs. Gone is the steam locomotive, the icon of a hard lifestyle that many of the original country singers faced and overcame.

Forgotten are the stories of the outlaw country, the defiant blend of myth and truth-telling.

To come...Stories of the Country Outlaws

To the right...picture of album cover, Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes, 1973 RCA Records.

In the 70's Waylon clearly discards his clean cut country folk song singer look (a by-product of the 60's). The big failure is that he did not breed a successor for outlaw country, plus the fact that Willie Nelson has abandoned the outlaw image for a modern "Beer for my Horses" good guy image.

Resources: Ladies Love Outlaws Waylon's Albums