Jessi Colter, the Reluctant ‘Outlaw Queen,’ on Life After Waylon and Working With Margo Price on New Album
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There are quite a few things Jessi Colter, of “I’m Not Lisa” fame, is not — besides Lisa.
The country music veteran laughs at the idea that she is an “outlaw queen,” even though one of her claims to fame is being one of the four participants included on the trending-setting 1976 album “Wanted!
The Outlaws,” along with her husband Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser. Of course she has embraced the affection for that era, to the point that she has spent years producing an upcoming mini-series titled “They Called Us Outlaws.” But she doesn’t even consider herself “country,” believing that term belongs more to the South… and pointing out that her origins were really in pop. “Country accepted me,” she says. “But I’m from Arizona, more tending toward a cowboy/cowgirl feel — I’m that.
But real country, I’m not.” Argue that with her, if you will, after hearing her new Margo Price-produced album, “Edge of Forever,” which — not surprisingly — is awfully darned country, any hair-splitting aside.
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