Artist	Song
Waylon Jennings	Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
from RCA Country Legends: Waylon Jennings (2001)
Merle Haggard	My Favorite Memory
from Merle Haggard - His Epic Hits (1985)
Hank Williams, Jr.	Family Tradition
from Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (1993)
Kris Kristofferson	Me and Bobby McGee
from Kristofferson (2001)
Johnny Paycheck	I'm the Only Hell (My Mama Ever Raised)
from The Soul & the Edge - The Best of Johnny Paycheck (2002)
Jerry Jeff Walker	Up Against the Wall, Red Neck
from Ultimate Collection: Jerry Jeff Walker (2001)
Emmylou Harris	Till I Gain Control Again
from Elite Hotel (2004)
Roger Miller	Husbands and Wives
from King of the Road - The Genius of Roger Miller (1995)
Tom T. Hall	Ballad of Forty Dollars
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tom T. Hall (2000)
Bobby Bare	Dropkick Me, Jesus
from The Essential Bobby Bare (1997)
Townes Van Zandt	For the Sake of the Song
from Townes Van Zandt (2007)
Guy Clark	Desperados Waiting for a Train
from Old No. 1 (2008)
Jimmy Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders	Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
from The Slaughter Rule (2003)
Billy Joe Shaver	Georgia On a Fast Train
from Hot Tracks: Train Super Hits (1998)
Joe Ely	She Never Spoke Spanish to Me
from The Best of Joe Ely (2000)
David Allan Coe	Willie, Waylon and Me
from The Essential David Allan Coe (2004)
Kinky Friedman	Sold American
from Sold American-30Th Anniversary (2006)
Leon Russell	Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms (Digitally Remastered 95)
from Retrospective (1997)
Neil Young	Are You Ready for the Country?
from Harvest (Remastered) (2009)
The Allman Brothers Band	Ramblin' Man
from Stand Back: The Anthology (2004)
The Charlie Daniels Band	Long Haired Country Boy
from The Essential Charlie Daniels Band (2003)
The Marshall Tucker Band	This Ol' Cowboy
from Where We All Belong (2004)
The Sir Douglas Quintet	Texas Me
from The Best of Douglas Sahm & The Sir Douglas Quintet (1968 - 1975) (1990)
Jimmy Buffett	Why Don't We Get Drunk
from A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean (1987)
Johnny Cash	We'll Meet Again
from American IV: Man Comes Around (2010)

Comment:

Nashville society was as rigid as any blue-blooded country club, and those with long hair or bohemian pastimes (like Willie) got shoved to the fringes. Rather than being cowed, these “outlaws” reveled in their outsider status, as Waylon Jennings does in his irony-filled “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way.” Famed rock nonconformist Neil Young embraced Willie both politically [i]and[/i] musically, as you can see in the Farm Aid concerts and hear in “Are You Ready for the Country,” one of country rock’s formative tracks, complete with Neil’s Nelson-like vocal quaver. And they don’t make ’em much further outside the mainstream than singer and mystery novelist Kinky Friedman, whose “Sold American” casts a jaded eye on the rubbish heap where our former stars go to fade away. Our Similar Sounds proves you don’t [i]have[/i] to be an outlaw to sound like Willie — heck, you don’t even have to be a [i]man[/i].

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