Outlaw country

Hank Williams Jr (70s)

Today, they don't seem like outlaws: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Jr., David Allan Coe, Tompall Glaser, Johnny Paycheck and numerous others are simply considered country legends. But outlaw country, as their brand of music came to be known, was once a rebellious and controversial thing. Rejecting the Nashville sound of the day, outlaw musicians combined Western swing, hillbilly music, and rock 'n roll to create some of the…

The rules of being a country music star used to be simple: you sing the songs the label picks for you, you show up to sing at the Opry when the label tells you to, and you’ll be off on a nice little singing career. This factory-esque system flourished — with a couple of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash shaped exceptions — from the first time a poor southerner with mandolin skills walked into a recording booth.But rock music, particularly the Beatles and Dylan, had showed a generation of…

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Waylon

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Everything about Waylon. Because maybe it's time country gets back to the basics of country.