Bryan Andrews‘ newest release, “Yeehaw,” borrows more from the sounds of ’70s outlaw country than most of the material we’ve heard from him thus far. The style switch-up has a point behind it.
- Bryan Andrews dropped “Yeehaw” on Friday (May 8.)
- As in previously-released songs like “Are We Great Yet” and “The Older I Get,” the song confronts social injustice directly in its lyrics.
- Andrews, who rose to fame on TikTok and signed with WME this year, is left-leaning and frequently speaks about topics like billionaire greed, immigrant welfare and the working class getting squeezed by unfair wage practices.
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What Is Bryan Andrews’ Song “Yeehaw” About?
“Yeehaw” calls out contemporary country artists and fans who embrace the term “outlaw” but don’t align with the way historical Southern country outlaws spoke out against the government.
He namechecks Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash as artists who had some conviction under their cowboy hats.
An accompanying music video shows Andrews holding up protest sign-style posters that offer some context to back up his arguments.
That’s where the country music history lesson comes in.
Andrews’ sonic hat tap to the original outlaws of the ’70s is a mirror for his message: The movement was originally built on free thinking and resistance to the status quo. And modern artists who use the style without taking up the cause ain’t real outlaws.
What Outlaw Country History Does Bryan Andrews Bring Up in “Yeehaw”?
Some of the signs Andrews holds up in his music video are general calls to action, like “Make country music anti-fascist again” and “BTW, country music is supposed to stand up to injustice, not be an advocate for it.”
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One sign quotes Waylon Jennings — one of country music’s formative outlaws — in a never-aired interview on Australian duo The LeGarde Twins’ Down Home Down Under show. In that conversation, Jennings says he’d welcome a female president, largely because “of what she don’t have, and that is a male ego.”
Bryan Andrews, YouTube
For a male country artist in the ’70s, Jennings was unusually supportive of women taking on leadership roles in the music business.
In the same interview Andrews cited, Jennings also said that the business side of his career was staffed with women, and that his wife, fellow outlaw artist Jessi Colter, was “much smarter than I am.”
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Another point Andrews made was about how the history of NASCAR is enmeshed with anti-police sentiment and moonshine, an enterprise created by the rural Southern working class in defiance of federal laws.
The racing sport, which has massive crossover appeal to a country-listening base, has origins in the Prohibition-era moonshine business. Drivers began racing the fast cars they used to outrun the highway patrol at fairs and racetracks in the 1930s.
Bryan Andrews, YouTube
“NASCAR is an entire sport founded on moonshiners in the South outrunning the cops during Prohibition,” Andrews’ sign reads. “Yeehaw, f–k the law.”
Here Are the Lyrics to Bryan Andrews’ “Yeehaw”:
I don’t see you on the front line / I don’t see you on the street / You call yourself a rebel / But all I see is sheep / They’re roundin’ up our neighbors / They’re tradin’ in our church / You call yourself a Christian / Then put Jesus in a hearse
Where my outlaws at? / Where my outlaws singin’
Chorus:
Yeehaw, f–k the law / Land of the free ain’t free for all / Until the law ain’t f–kin’ y’all / It’s yeehaw, f–k the law
I’ve seen you lick the boot / So I just gotta ask / Do you gotta get it soakin’ wet / To shove it up your a–? / They’re servin’ up our daughters / They’re shippin’ off our sons / Next thing you know they’ll skip the vote / And come for all your guns
Where my outlaws at? Where my outlaws singin’
Repeat Chorus
Willie, Waylon, Johnny Cash / They gonna want them records back / Y’all talk the talk, y’all fly the flag / So where the f–k y’all outlaws at?
Repeat Chorus
30 Outlaw Country Songs That Define The Movement
With its roots in the ’60s and the honky-tonk style forged by Hank Williams, outlaw country music began to snowball in the ’70s as more and more artists bristled against the genre’s commercialism, social conventions and the slick and shiny “Nashville Sound.”
Though some artists like Johnny Paycheck and David Allan Coe had served jail time before their success, the “outlaw” label applied more broadly to those artists who rejected the status quo in Nashville. Many of the definitive songs of the movement speak directly to that rebellion, while others simply embody an artist-driven, independent musical vision that sidestepped Nashville’s country hit formula of the day.
Keep reading for a round-up of 30 songs that define the outlaw country movement.
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