There was a formula to crafting a beautiful 1970s country song, and those elements still have musical merit today.

To a certain demographic of country music fans, the unofficial lyrical golden age of the genre was the 1970s, and the specific movement that made it so was outlaw country. The movement featured the ...

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 ...