In the 1970s and 1980s, country music was shifting rapidly ... own path in the genre and recorded what we refer to today as outlaw country. Pushed forward by country legends like Willie Nelson ...

Outlaw country is a notable subgenre of country and western music that came to light in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was a pretty big deal at the time. Around that era, country music was ...

You don't have to be from the South to play country music, and these three classic country musicians from California prove ...

When Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings met at a Tempe nightclub in the 1970s, neither knew it was the beginning of an outlaw ...

Fifty years ago, in May 1975, a stripped-down album called “Red Headed Stranger” changed the country music landscape and forever altered Willie Nelson’s trajectory. Only that musical big bang didn’t ...

Draggin' Shackles lyrics by Gary Stewart reveal emotional pain and heartbreak, wrapped in classic honky-tonk sound and raw ...

With one of the most famous pedigrees in country music, Hank Williams Jr. spent his ... but only after he‘d made a complete break in the late 1970s, reinventing himself as a rowdy country ...

Since the mid-1960s, Willie Nelson has been a fixture in country music. He looked a lot different when he was young, of course, than he did later on, when he helped define the Outlaw country era ...

Country artist Whitey Morgan will be stripping down his outlaw sound for a solo acoustic show at the District Bar.

Country-music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican-American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s, including “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin’ My Thumb ...