Artist	Song
Waylon Jennings	Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
from Dreaming My Dreams (2001)
The Highwaymen	If He Came Back Again
from The Road Goes On Forever (10th Anniversary Edition) (2005)
Willie Nelson	Bloody Mary Morning
from The Essential Willie Nelson (1995)
Johnny Rodriguez	Ridin' My Thumb to Mexico
from The Best of Johnny Rodriguez: 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection (2006)
Old 97's	King of All the World
from Hit By a Train - The Best of Old 97's (2006)
Hank Williams, Jr.	If You Don't Like Hank Williams
from Hank Williams Jr.: 20 Hits (1995)
Billy Joe Shaver	You Ought to Be With Me When I'm Alone
from The Real Deal (2007)
Jerry Jeff Walker	Comfort and Crazy
from Jerry Jeff (2005)
Tony Joe White & Jessi Colter	Fireflies In the Storm
from The Heroines (2008)
Guy Clark	The Last Gunfighter Ballad
from The Essential Guy Clark (1997)
Cowboy Jack Clement	Dreaming My Dreams With You
from Guess Things Happen That Way (2004)
Shel Silverstein	The Taker
from The Best of Shel Silverstein His Words His Songs His Friends (2005)
Cowboy Jack Clement	Trapped In an Old Country Song
from Guess Things Happen That Way (2004)
Kinky Friedman	Get Your Biscuits In the Oven and Your Buns In Bed
from Sold American-30Th Anniversary (2006)
Billy Joe Shaver	Whiteman's Watermelon
from Salt of the Earth (2000)
Joe Ely	Tennessee's Not the State I'm In
from The Best of Joe Ely (2000)
Kris Kristofferson	From the Bottle to the Bottom
from The Essential Kris Kristofferson (2004)
The Flatlanders	Right Where I Belong
from Now Again (2002)
Shooter Jennings	Busted In Baylor County
from Put the O Back In Country (2005)
Sammi Smith	Birmingham Mistake
from Country Masters: Sammi Smith (2005)
The Flatlanders	Baby Do You Love Me Still?
from Wheels of Fortune (2004)
John Anderson	I Just Came Home to Count the Memories
from John Anderson: Ultimate Hits (2004)
Ray Wylie Hubbard	Screw You, We're from Texas
from Growl (2010)
Sammi Smith	Willie
from Country Masters: Sammi Smith, Vol. 2 (2005)
Townes Van Zandt	Waitin' 'Round to Die
from Rear View Mirror (1997)

Comment:

The creative explosion sparked by the early-’70s outlaws still resonates with artists today. But it also has a backwards effect, shedding light on dudes like Townes Van Zandt, who had been playing by their own rules all along but gained new fans whose minds had been opened by the success of Waylon, Willie, and anyone else who found inspiration where blues, folk, country, and rock collided. And don’t forget — despite the spit ’n’ sawdust core of the movement, not all country outlaws were men; Jessi Colter, here singing a rocked-up “Fireflies In the Storm” with Tony Joe White, was married to Jennings but earned her outlaw credentials on her own merits, while Sammi Smith told it how it was, no punches pulled, on tough tracks like “Birmingham Mistake.”

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