Outlaw country

I never had the chance to talk to you before now, but I'm going to not start with the new song.

I'm going to take us back to your earlier life because I was reading that you were raised on Outlaw Country and The Blues.

I sure was.

Which artists have been your favourites?

Well, my dad, he was in a band in the 70s called Stagecoach, which actually won a bunch of awards at Tamworth.

So I grew up around the dinner table, like honestly hearing them over and over again, all the stories about, you know, how mum used to have to take two shirts with her to every gig because he'd get the buttons ripped off in the bar brawls that used to happen in the 60s and 70s and whatever.

You know, it was really glorified the outlaw country thing.

And in the car, everywhere we went, like, you know, he always had to have music.

But this Friday, Capone's at the Lounge is hosting a special night of music.

It's called Americana Experiment Outlaw Country.

Joining us today is local musician Jacob Starin.

Welcome in, bro.

Okay, now, in addition to that, let's talk about you're going to be performing coming up this weekend, yeah? Capone was at the Lounge.

Give us the details and who you're going to be jamming with.

Okay, so the Americana Experiment is a reoccurring event that I put on with my company called Misty Mountains Entertainment, and it's a... an event that celebrates Americana and kind of dives into different lanes of the Americana music genre, right? So this particular one will be celebrating the music of Outlaw Country, which is made famous by a record called The Outlaws, featuring Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, and all of that.

So, yeah, so...

Yes.

You know what? I wanted to do an Outlaw Country thing, but we always did other countries, and I was going to save Outlaw for last because I love Outlaw Country.

And, you know, Waylon and Willie, and we will be doing that.

See, I've been hearing them on my Grand Theft Auto on the country station there, so I got kind of intrigued.

Oh, I've heard a lot of, last 10 or so years, I've heard a lot of Outlaw Country, and it's just fabulous.

Not that I'm swaying, because there's obviously some bad albums out there, obviously, in any.

You got your good, you got your bad, and you got a bunch in the middle.

A film, a semi-biographical film, The Easy Kind, just came out this summer that was based on her story.

And she has just spent the last week with her in her role at Outlaw Country and Sirius XM as one of the people that the world of country music is turning to to process the the loss and the legacy of Dolly Parton.

And, you know, that's.

Not what we hope to talk about, but we certainly did.

She was in here.

She was in town, um, working on some, uh, film premieres of the easy kind.

So anyway, I, I had sat down and I hadn't, I mean, you know, I've been listening to Elizabeth cook for as long as outlaw country has been around and, um, somebody who I hold in great esteem and probably is responsible for a lot of my own career.

So like, as far as me getting nervous for an interview, it was way the hell up there.

And I kind of agree.

I mean, I feel like Outlaw Country, like, and Rock Country are, like, really kind of pushing the boundaries right now.

Shout out Jared Morris.

That was on his podcast.

And that's what it is.

I mean, you have Outlaw Country.

You've got Zach Bryan.

You've got Morgan Luke.