VA - Outlaws & Armadillos Country's Roaring '70s (2018)

The rising popularity of rock & roll in the 1950s dealt a severe blow to country music sales. In response, country producers especially Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley developed a mellow pop-country hybrid that would become known as the Nashville Sound. By replacing traditional country instrumentation such as fiddle and steel guitar with pop music identifiers like strings, horns and polished backing choruses, the Nashville Sound produced records that were both financially viable and crossover pop hits. In the Nashville system, a single producer, such as Atkins or Bradley, would oversee as many as twenty artists. This recording model resulted in stylistic similarities among tracks by different artists, sometimes on different labels. Although employed to great effect by labels on Music Row, this formulaic approach to making music left many artists, including Nelson and Jennings, feeling uninspired.

Track List:

1. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way - Waylon Jennings 02:56
2. Why You Been Gone so Long - Jessi Colter 03:05
3. Me and Paul - Willie Nelson 03:47
4. Back in the Goodle Days - John Hartford 03:34
5. Desperados Waiting For A Train - Guy Clark 04:31
6. Rex's Blues - Townes Van Zandt 03:02
7. No Place to Fall - Steve Young 03:59
8. I Ain't Looking for the Answers Anymore - Tompall Glaser 02:18
9. Marie Laveau - Bobby Bare 03:09
10. Rode Hard and Put Up Wet - Marshall Chapman 03:29
11. London Homesick Blues - Jerry Jeff Walker 07:42
12. Groover's Paradise - Doug Sahm 03:23
13. I Had My Hopes Up High - Joe Ely 03:32
14. Joe, Don't Let Your Music Kill You - Tom T. Hall 02:25
15. Old Five and Dimers Like Me - Billy Joe Shaver 02:39
16. Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings 03:36
17. You Asked Me To - Cowboy Jack Clement 02:12
18. Allegheny - Chris Gantry 03:29
19. Amarillo Highway (for Dave Hickey) - Terry Allen 03:57
20. Gettin' By - Jerry Jeff Walker 04:11
21. Too Much Fun - Commander Cody 03:36
22. Don't Ask Me Why (I'm Going To Texas) - Asleep At The Wheel 02:50
23. Dallas - The Flatlanders 02:58
24. Cosmic Cowboy, Pt. 1 - Michael Murphey 03:55
25. Sold American - Kinky Friedman 03:15
26. Leaving Louisiana In the Broad Daylight - Marcia Ball 04:18
27. I Still Sing the Old Songs - David Allan Coe 04:14
28. The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 - Kris Kristofferson 03:09
29. No Expectations - Johnny Cash 03:11
30. Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson 03:59
31. Satin Sheets - Willis Alan Ramsey 02:37
32. Easy From Now On - Emmylou Harris 03:06
33. San Francisco Mabel Joy - Mickey Newbury 05:54
34. 11 Months and 29 Days - Johnny Paycheck 03:44
35. You Can Have My Husband - Stevie Ray Vaughan 02:53
36. Ain't Living Long Like This - Rodney Crowell 04:50