Ladies Love Outlaws is an album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Nashville in 1972.
Together with Jennings' previous album Good Hearted Woman, it marks his transition toward his Outlaw Country image and style.
Albright introduced Jennings to Neil Reshen, a New York lawyer who had experience handling bands and contract problems.
[2] Jennings engaged Reshen as his manager, who encouraged the singer to grow his hair and beard long to emphasize his "outlaw" image .
[5] This would set the stage for the "outlaw country" movement that would dominate the industry throughout the 1970s, and Jennings, along with Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and a handful of other like-minded renegades, would be its figurehead.
[11] While he was satisfied with the results of "Frisco Depot" and considered the song complete, he said that Hoyt Axton's "Never Been to Spain" was never planned for a release.
[13] The cover of Ladies Love Outlaws shows Jennings on a scene set in an Old West motif, dressed in black with a revolver strapped to his waist,[14]looking at his five-year-old niece, Ladonna.
[21] Thom Jurek of Allmusic gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of five and wrote that Jennings' performances offered him in a "deeply expressive terrain" as a vocalist.