In his autobiography, Waylon Jennings explained the ethos of Outlaw Country. In his eyes, it wasn’t about crime or being an “outlaw.” Instead, it was about artists going against the grain of the ...

Plenty of country music fans aren’t on board with the music coming out of Nashville today. The same was true for fans in the 1970s. Interestingly, many of those fans from today turn to the same place ...

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 ...

With its roots in the '60s and the honky-tonk style forged by Hank Williams, outlaw country music began to snowball in the early '70s as more and more artists bristled against the genre's ...

Willie Nelson is 92 years old and still headlining festival tours. The Outlaw Country legend launched a tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of his Outlaw Music Festival in Phoenix on Tuesday, May 13 ...