Fifty-something years after Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Tompall Glaser Jerry Jeff Walker and a whole host of others set up the framework for outlaw country, the movement is alive ...

The crown jewel of that signature outlaw sound was legendary steel guitar player Ralph Mooney. On Jennings’ 1974 staple, ...

Bryan Andrews‘ newest release, “Yeehaw,” borrows more from the sounds of ’70s outlaw country than most of the material we’ve ...

Outlaw country would likely not be what it is today without contributions from famed country singer Merle Haggard. He really embodied the lifestyle. He was formerly incarcerated, and much of his music ...

The country music rebels of the 1970s had grown tired of Nashville’s establishment. Though they weren’t the only ones, four renegade musicians transformed country music. Known as The Highwaymen, Kris ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jeremy Tepper, a champion of the outlaw country genre in his work as program director at SiriusXM, has died at 60. - Credit: Mike ...

Luke Bryan says he was not attacking three legendary country outlaws when he declared that he’s not a "'Those were the good old days' kind of guy." In a recent interview, Bryan said that people who ...

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 started in 1972, after Willie Nelson’s home outside ...

Editor's Note: The Boot originally published this story in late May of 2018, shortly before the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum opened its Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s exhibit.

The idea of outlaw country -- music that turned away from the "Nashville sound" style of production in the 1970s -- feels inextricably tied to a set of artists from that era (including the movement's ...

The Outlaw Country Cruise marked its fifth installment with one of its strongest lineups yet — so strong, in fact, that it made choosing between artists with conflicting set times nearly impossible.