Artist	Song
Gary P. Nunn	London Homesick Blues
Guy Clark	Texas Cookin'
Asleep At The Wheel	Miles And Miles of Texas
David Allan Coe	Long-Haired Redneck
Gary P. Nunn	Austin Pickers
Willie Nelson	Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Willie Nelson	Red Headed Stranger
Waylon Jennings (with Willie)	Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Jerry Jeff Walker	Up Against The Wall, Red Neck Mother
Asleep At The Wheel	(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66
Gary P. Nunn	Roadtrip
Michael Martin Murphy	Cosmic Cowboy, Part 1
Waylon Jennings	Drinkin' & Dreamin'
David Allan Coe	Juanita
Kinky Friedman	Get Your Biscuits In The Oven and Your Buns In The Bed
Lyle Lovett	That's Right (You're Not From Texas)
Michael Martin Murphy	Cowboy Logic
Lyle Lovett	If I Had A Boat
Rusty Wier	The Devil Lives In Texas
Waylon Jennings	Luckenbach, Texas
Willie Nelson	Whiskey River
Jerry Jeff Walker	London Homesick Blues

Comment:

"Outlaw Country" or "Texas Outlaw Country" isn't (really) an offshoot of country-rock, but the sensibilities are the same. Disc eight introduces us to a flourishing genre centered in Austin Texas rather than Bakersfield California. For my English friends, the "London Homesick Blues" tells of a cowboy in London wanting to 'go home with the armadillos; country music from Amarillo to Abilene. The friendliest people and the prettiest women you ever seen."

Country Rock: An Idiosyncratic History July/September 2006 Page 8/12

Some more thoughts: Origins, Popularity and Evolution:

(Chris Hillman) "We were all there, we played. (country-rock). We all strayed from rock & roll. And many people contributed. (We were) risk-takers motivated by a genuine love of country music's simplicity, and its honesty as an authentic American musical form." (from Desperado, p.267)

"Dating the exact origination of this folk-rock subgenre (country-rock) is - like finding the person responsible for coining the folk-rock and singer-songwriter appellations - impossible. Certainly critics were starting to think along these lines by the time Jon Landau wrote a full page piece in Rolling Stone in September 1968 titled "Country and Rock". Country-rock had definitely become a label by the time the headline "The New Sound of Country Rock" was plastered on the January 12, 1970 issue of Time." (from Eight Miles High, p 175)

"You can get carried away and find strong strains of country rock . dating back to the beginnings of rock itself when . Elvis and others mixed country with R & B to produce rockabilly. The specific country-rock style of the late `60s and early `70s, however, largely grew out of mid-`60s folk music. (and was) centered in Southern California." (from Eight Miles High, p 175)

"The (country and rock) cultures remained different. For rock listeners, country represented an organic back-to-the-earth movement of sorts; a chill-out from the intensity of the `60s. (Country rock) never truly integrated rock & country, the culture and attitudes remained different, with attitudes towards Viet Nam, in particular, largely divergent." (from blogcritics.org)

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