Rebels & Outlaws: Music From The Wild Side Of Life

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Original Release Date: May 18, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000IWUY
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #543,912 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young - Faron Young

2. Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

3. Big Iron - Marty Robbins

4. Branded Man - Merle Haggard

5. (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill - Johnny Paycheck

6. Evil Hearted Me - Dick Curless

7. Cocaine Blues - Hank Thompson

8. Downtown Poker Club - Tex Williams

9. Riot in Cell Block #9 - Wanda Jackson

10. Knoxville Girl - The Louvin Brothers

11. You Clobbered Me - Spade Cooley & His Orchestra

12. Shootout at the Rocket Club - Dusty Chaps

13. Ain't Life Hell - Hank Cochran & Willie Nelson

14. Blood on the Saddle - Tex Ritter

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Terrific and Bizarre, April 1, 2001

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James Carragher (New York) - See all my reviews
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This one is surely not for all tastes, but if you want music from the traditional sounding and bloody-themed side of country, here is the sampler to get. Judging by the stylings and sound, you would think all the cuts date from about the mid- to late-fifties, but some of them are significantly newer. A few are sheer novelty, including Downtown Poker Club, You Clobbered Me (sung by an unidentified female vocalist, but credited to Spade Cooley who, as the CD liner notes and every review -- mine too! -- can't resist noting, later beat his wife to death. Without that life imitating art twist, this tune surely and deservedly would never have been heard again), and Shootout at the Rocket Club. You get the old chestnuts in Folsom Prison Blues -- always worth hearing of course --, Hank Thompson's version of Cocaine Blues and a lesser known Marty Robbins song, Big Iron. Merle Haggard's Branded Man is a flat-out classic, as is wild Wanda's Riot in Cell Block Number Nine. The three songs that give the CD its most chilling edge are Johnny Paycheck's matter-of-fact (Pardon Me) I've Got Someone to Kill, in which a guy finishes drinking at a bar and announces to all that he's now going off to shoot his wife and her lover, Tex Ritter's truly bizarre Blood on the Saddle, wherein a cowboy is crushed by his horse, and the Louvin Brothers' Knoxville Girl, the tale of a young man who kills his sweetheart for no apparent reason at all during a Sunday walk, throws her body in the river, and explains away all the blood on his clothes to his mother by saying he "was bleeding from the nose." The version is based on an old English folk song and very strong stuff. One listens in kind of amazement to this sometimes powerful, sometimes mindless CD and wonders how and why Nashville ever let itself become the purveyor of the homogenized pap it spews out today.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kick ass Country from it's glory days!, June 20, 1999

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This review is from: Rebels & Outlaws: Music From The Wild Side Of Life (Audio CD)

Killer compilation of old country songs. I'd never heard "Pardon Me I've got Someone to Kill". There's some incredible Merle Haggard and other stuff on here too. This is the real deal from the 50s. These guys were so cool.

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth it for one song., February 18, 2010

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Darryl W. Graham (Talequah, OK) - See all my reviews
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Purchased this so I would have a decent copy of "You Clobbered Me." I'm a big fan of old time hillbilly and country swing music and this is a great track.