Yahoo Web Search

Search results

  1. Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era.

  2. Apr 5, 2021 · A guide to the history of Outlaw Country, through its artists and songs, according to Holler. Nelson, Jennings and Kristofferson set out to change country music's future in the early 1970s. The result of their work, now some 50 years on, is still prolific in paving the way for Nashville and country music as a whole.

  3. October 29, 2018. Graphic by Martine Ehrhart. The story of outlaw country starts in very different places, depending on who is spinning the yarn. Historian Joe Nick Patoski wonders if it all...

  4. Sep 26, 2022 · The peak of Outlaw Country might have been short in the number of years but is vast in the ripple of influence. Even if they don’t consciously acknowledge it, it’s present in every long-haired country singer, every Nashville contract that guarantees creative freedom, and every track that’s augmented by the unmistakable distortion of ...

  5. Outlaw Country was one of the more significant trends in country music in the '70s. During that decade, many of the most popular hardcore country singers of the '60s -- from George Jones to Merle Haggard -- softened their sound slightly, moving away from their honky tonk roots.

  6. People also ask

  1. People also search for