Nashville’s Dana Williams Show on WSM 650 AM Radio Plays Outlaw music Sept 12
By Nancy Goodman, Nashville Places & Faces Examiner

Dana Williams Show on WSM 650 AM Radio Plays Outlaw music on Sept 12. This radio show aired today in Nashville at 2 pm.

“Playing ‘legal outlaws’ music today”, said Dana Williams.

We first hear the one and only and one of the original outlaws in country music, Waylon Jennings singing one of his popular songs…then Waylon’s wife, sweet Jessi Colter singing, ‘I’m Not Lisa’…(Nancy’s note: That one really takes us back, love the song, haven’t heard it lately.)

Next is Merle and Willie with ‘Pancho and Lefty’..
(Nancy’s note: one of our absolute favorites!…’skin like iron, breath like kerosene’….we just wonder where singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt came up with those words!)

“Put Another Log on the Fire (Male Chauvinist National Anthem)” by Tompall Glaser…(Tompall was born September 3, 1933). This song charted at #21 and was from his album Tompall (Sings the Songs of Shel Silverstein).

Dana: said, “I toured with Tompall and the Glaser Brothers back in the 1980′s…we went to England and played 18 cities in 21 days, was that a tour! …played a lot of poker, lot of cards…”
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‘Loving Her Was Easier’, by Tompall and the Glaser Brothers..
(Nancy’s note: “This song always puts me in mind of the late Marty Robbins when I hear it. And my hubby said, ‘Turn it up, I love that song!’)”…..

Jamey Johnson singing ‘You Shoulda Seen It In Color’…’one of today’s outlaws,’ said Dana.

Kris Kristofferson, (born June 22, 1936) with ‘Sunday Morning Coming down’…he wrote it and Johnny Cash recorded it…’there’s something in a Sunday, makes a body feel alone’….

‘That’s Why The Man in Black sings the Blues’….Billy Joe Shaver…

Dana said: “Johnny Cash…lived in Hendersonville…wrote so many songs…played in prisons…Mr. Outlaw….singing “I Keep a Close Watch on the Heart of Mine’.”…..

“Two More Bottles of Wine”…(was this EmmyLou Harris?)

Then Hank Jr. with ‘All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down’ makes this listing of ‘outlaws’ almost complete, we think.

‘Thanks for listening, check out my website at danawilliamshow.com’, said Dana Williams. He gave out the phone number to call and then said ‘Call me if you hated this show! That’s a different twist, isn’t it?”

(Nancy’s Note: “We didn’t hate it….Nosirree! Loved all this ‘outlaw music’ today, thanks, Dana Williams – for an entertaining radio show today! About the only other Willie song we could have asked for is ‘A Train Called New Orleans’ as that one tops our favorite of Willie’s list.”)

Dana closed out today’s show by saying “The main group of outlaw men, The HighwayMen. Kristofferson, Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon’…and then we hear ‘The Highway Man’…

Dana Williams signed off his hour-long show and invited his listening audience to visit his website at danawilliamsshow.com and to call his phone 202-643-3262 to give him requests for next time his show is on WSM AM 650 Radio in Nashville.