Ladies Love Outlaws (Tom Rush album)

Ladies Love Outlaws is a 1974 country rock album from folk rock musician Tom Rush. The album spent nine weeks on the Billboard 200 charts, peaking at number 124 on November 16, 1974.

Track listing

1. "Ladies Love Outlaws" (Lee Clayton) – 2:28
2. "Hobo's Mandolin" (Michael Peter Smith) – 3:12
3. "Indian Woman from Wichita" (Wayne Berry) – 4:19
4. "Maggie" (Arranged and adapted by Tom Rush) – 3:32
5. "Desperados Waiting for a Train" (Guy Clark) – 3:30
6. "Claim on Me" (Clayton) – 4:08
7. "Jenny Lynn" (Richard Dean) – 2:59
8. "Black Magic Gun" (Wayne Berry) – 3:26
9. "No Regrets" (Rush) – 5:41
10. "One Day I Walk" (Bruce Cockburn) – 2:15

Personnel

Musicians

• Tom Rush – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
• Jeff "Skunk" Baxter – electric guitar (tracks 1, 3), dobro (tracks 4, 8, 10), acoustic guitar (track 9), pedal steel guitar (tracks 6–9)
• Elliott Randall – electric guitar (tracks 1, 5–7, 9), acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 3–6, 8)
• Bob Babbitt – bass
• Jerry Friedman – electric guitar (tracks 6–7)
• Leon Pendarvis – keyboards (tracks 3, 6–7)
• Allan Schwartzberg – drums (tracks 1–3, 6–7)
• Andrew Smith – drums (tracks 5, 9)
• George Devens – percussion (tracks 6, 8–9)
• Rupert Holmes – background vocals (track 1), string arrangements (tracks 3–6, 9)
• James Taylor – background vocals (track 7)
• Carly Simon – background vocals (track 9)
• Carl Hall – background vocals (track 3)
• Tasha Thomas – background vocals (track 3)

The Memphis Horns

• Wayne Jackson – trumpet
• Jack Hale – trombone
• Ed Logan – tenor saxophone
• Andrew Love – tenor saxophone
• James Mitchell – baritone saxophone

(tracks 1, 5)

Technical

• Mark Spector – producer
• Alan Varner – engineer
• Lou Schlossberg – assistant engineer
• Terry Rosiello – assistant engineer
• Allan Blazek, Jeffrey Lesser, Roger Nichols, Stan Tonkel, Ted Sturges – additional engineering (overdubs)
• Stewart Romain – mastering
• John Berg – design
• Beverly Mundy – photography
• James Grashow – cover art

References