Table of Contents
Foreword Bobby Bare xi
Foreword Brian T. Atkinson xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
Hard to Be an Outlaw 7
Rodney Crowell 7
Bobby Bare Jr. 8
Harold F. Eggers Jr. 10
Billy Don Burns 13
Ray Wylie Hubbard 15
Lee Roy Parnell 18
Steve Earle 20
Honky Tonk Heroes 25
Jessi Colter 25
Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) 29
Kinky Friedman 31
Whey Jennings 35
Ted Russell Kamp 38
Mark Chesnutt 41
James Carothers 43
I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train 46
J. P. Harris 46
Matt Minglewood 50
Vincent Neil Emerson 52
Robert Ellis 54
Mando Saenz 57
Cecil Allen Moore 59
Everybody's Brother 62
John Carter Cash 62
Marty Stuart 64
James McMurtry 66
Kimmie Rhodes 68
Richie Allbright 71
Terri Hendrix 73
Chuck Mead (BR549) 75
Tramp on Your Street 76
Jesse Dayton 76
Keith Christopher 82
David Waddell 86
Rosie Flores 89
Brian Molnar 92
Radney Foster 95
Bruce Robison 98
Jeremy Lynn Woodall 100
Adam Carter 104
Brian Whelan 108
Jason McKenzie 111
Wacko from Waco 115
Dale Watson 118
Nick Gaitan 121
Brian Wright 128
Wayne Hancock 129
Tim Easton 131
Get Thee behind Me, Satan 134
Michael Ubaldini 134
Aaron Watson 136
Jason Charles Miller 139
Brennen Leigh 142
Bonnie Montgomery 144
Salt of the Earth 146
Roger Alan Wade 146
Jonathan Tyler 150
Jackson Taylor (Jackson Taylor and the Sinners) 152
Stoney LaRue 155
Matt Harlan 157
Scott H. Biram 159
Gethen Jenkins 161
Ben Reddell 164
Chris Fullerton 166
Live Forever 170
John Rich (Big & Rich) 170
Cory Morrow 172
Jim Dalton (The Railbenders) 175
Ann Duggan 177
Rod Picott 179
Randy Rogers 181
Carson McHome 183
Dallas Moore 184
Jim Lauderdale 186
Elizabeth Cook 188
David Lee 189
Afterword 195
Notes 197
Selected Discography 203
Index 205
