These outlaw country lyrics are among the most memorable, and they remain a strong divergence from the Nashville sound of the ...

On paper, these country songs should’ve been niche listens or even full-on failures. Nevertheless, the audience helped them ...

A powerful country song that captured the tensions of its time climbed to the top of the charts on this day in 1970. Merle ...

Marking 50 years of Wanted! The Outlaws, artists and historians revisit the compilation that transformed Waylon, Willie, ...

She might not look like or sound like what you think of when you think of outlaw country. But Mickey Guyton is an outlaw. Not only that, but she's the biggest, baddest outlaw artist the genre has seen ...

Introspective, politically conscious, authentic? The singer-songwriters of the 1970s were some or all of these things ...

Using historical Billboard charts and other top song and album lists from the 1970s, Stacker spotlighted 15 of the ...

Billy Don Burns made headlines last year after he tried to take his own life in a drug-fueled rage. There’s good news to report on that front now because Burns, who one website called a “true outlaw ...

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In 1976, a song reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart on May 8, 1976, stayed there for two weeks, and it spent a total of 20 weeks on the chart. Roughly 35 years later, Rolling Stone readers named it ...

Billy Don Burns made headlines last year after he tried to take his own life in a drug-fueled rage. There’s good news to report on that front now because Burns, who one website called a “true outlaw ...

Before Tim McGraw became one of country’s most bankable hitmakers, he was locked in a fight with his own label over a song they were convinced would be a disaster. On a recent episode of The Tim ...