OutlawMusic.ai · Fruita, Colorado
Where history becomes music.
Your true story, written into an original ballad.
Rick Kennerknecht researches it, writes it and produces it in the Western storytelling tradition. From $79, delivered in 5 to 14 days with MP3 + WAV, a lyric sheet and revisions. Or just listen: 68 original outlaw ballads, free.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
"Dang, dude, if I didn't know the timeline, I would guess this song took three months and a gaggle of composers utilizing a chorus and a philharmonic orchestra. I'm not kidding. Crazy good."
Bob Boze Bell, President & Executive Editor, True West Magazine
Hear the ballads"I'm always amazed by Rick Kennerknecht's artistic ability to put these wonderful stories to song."
Peter Sherayko, actor, Texas Jack in Tombstone, countless Westerns and Old West historian
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How a custom song works
How a custom song works
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Pick a tier and pay
Four sizes of story song, from $79 to $797. Checkout is by card through Stripe.
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Tell Rick the story
A short brief opens the moment you pay: who it is about, what happened, how it should sound. Ten minutes.
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Your ballad arrives
MP3 + WAV, a lyric sheet, and revisions, inside 5 to 14 days depending on the tier. Revisions are included.
Custom Story-Songs
Your story, in a ballad, from $79
Send the true story. Get an original western ballad with MP3 + WAV, lyric sheet, and revisions in 5–14 days. Tiers from $79 to $797.
See the tiersFilm & TV Scoring
Score your film, from $995
Original cues composed to your footage. Full sync rights, plagiarism clearance, delivery in 7–21 days. Single cue $995, bundles from $1,995.
Get a quoteFeatured Ballads
Start with these five
Centauro del Norte
Pancho Villa rode the Mexican Revolution from cattle thief to general, and took the fight across the American line.
Play the ballad
Happily Heartbroke, Pour Me One More Empty Glass
A honky-tonk send-up of every broken-hearted country song ever written. Pour one more empty glass and cry along.
Play the ballad
Goin' Once
An auctioneer's rapid-fire chant rolling across a dusty stockyard as prize cattle change hands to the highest bidder.
Play the ballad
Fought Like a Man
Anne Bonny in her own voice, Ireland to Nassau to the deck off Jamaica, where two women stood and fought while the crew hid below.
Play the ballad
This is Norco
No sidewalks, just horse trails. A present-day portrait of Norco, California, where the freeway rushes past and the town rides on.
Play the balladHuman-told
Every story is researched and written by Rick before a note exists.
AI-assisted
Production uses AI tools, disclosed openly on every release per DDEX.
Mippia-cleared
Each track is run through plagiarism detection before it ships.
The Dispatch
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