Track Listing
1. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - (with Waylon Jennings)
2. Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me) - (with Waylon Jennings)
3. I'm Looking For Blue Eyes - (with Jessi Colter)
4. You Mean to Say - (with Jessi Colter)
5. Suspicious Minds - (with Waylon Jennings/Jessi Colter)
6. Good Hearted Woman, A - (with Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson)
7. Heaven and Hell - (with Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson)
8. Me and Paul - (with Willie Nelson)
9. Yesterday's Wine - (with Willie Nelson)
10. T For Texas - (with Tompall Glaser & Band)
11. Put Another Log on the Fire - (with Tompall Glasser & Band)
12. Slow Movin' Outlaws - (with Waylon Jennings)
13. Ramblin' Man, (I'm A) - (with Waylon Jennings)
14. If She's Where You Like Livin' (You Won't Feel at Home With Me) - (with Jessi Colter)
15. It's Not Easy - (with Jessi Colter)
16. Why You Been Gone So Long - (with Jessi Colter)
17. Under Your Spell Again - (with Waylon Jennings/Jessi Colter)
18. I Ain't the One - (with Waylon Jennings/Jessi Colter)
19. You Left a Long, Long Time Ago - (with Willie Nelson)
20. Healing Hands of Time - (with Willie Nelson)
21. Nowhere Road - (1996, with Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings)
| Details | | Playing Time: | 64 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Steve Earle | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The 1996 reissue of WANTED! THE OUTLAWS includes nine additional tracks from the original sessions and one new song ("Nowhere Road").
Personnel includes: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser (vocals); Steve Earle (acoustic guitar); Richard Bennett (guitar, mando-guitar); Robby Turner (pedal steel); Mickey Raphael (bass harmonica); Garry Tallent (bass); Greg Morrow (drums); Ray Kennedy (tambourine).
Producers include: Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser, Ronny Light, Danny Davis, Chet Atkins.
Compilation producer: Steve Lindsey.
Engineers include: Al Pachucki, Leslie Ladd, Tom Pick.
Includes liner notes by Chet Flippo.
Digitally remastered by Benny Quinn (Masterfonics, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee).
In the mid-1970s, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and a few other cohorts turned the Nashville country establishment on its ear, introducing a gritty, rock & roll feel and iconoclastic, rebellious sensibility to the staid institution country music had become. The breath of fresh air that they were, they became hugely popular, and were justly hailed as the vanguard of "Outlaw Country." After releasing a number of definitive solo albums in the preceding few years, Jennings and Nelson collaborated on one of the most popular albums of the genre, 1976's WANTED! THE OUTLAWS. Aided by Waylon's wife Jessi Colter and pal Tompall Glaser (of the Glaser Brothers), they crafted perhaps the ultimate Outlaw Country mission statement. The rough-and-ready ethos of Jennings's "Honky Tonk Heroes (Like Me)" and Nelson's "Me and Paul" is pretty much ground zero for the style, bearing undeniable energy, earthy humanism, and irresistibly catchy lyrical and melodic motifs. Jennings and Nelson would scale even greater heights of fame in the years to come, but were seldom ever as much at the top of their game.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars (out of 5) - One of the milestones of country music....helped put an official seal on the whole Outlaw movement....It may not seem exactly radical now but it did at the time with the likes of `My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys,' `A Good Hearted Woman' and `Me And Paul' rightly going on to become the stuff of legend.
Q (11/01/1996)
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