List of outlaw country artists
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- ↑ Monroe, Rachel (January 4, 2022). "Terry Allen on the Texas Roots of his Music and Art". The New Yorker. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
- ↑ Hann, Michael (April 30, 2018). "Daniel Antopolsky: the drifter who swapped country music for chickens". The Guardian. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Breen, Mike (January 27, 2016). "Sound Advice: Scott H. Biram with Strahan & The Good Neighbors Sunday • Southgate House Revival". CityBeat. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
An "Outlaw Country" artist in the truest sense, Biram signed with Bloodshot in 2005
- ↑ Ball, Tim (January 8, 2021). "Ed Bruce, country singer who wrote iconic tune, dies at 81". New York Daily News. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
- ↑ Hahn, Fritz (May 8, 2012). "Get your outlaw country fix with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard at Marx Cafe in Mount Pleasant". The Washington Post. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
- ↑ "Guy Clark, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee, Dead at 74". Vulture. May 17, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
Clark, who was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2004, was long known as a pioneer of the outlaw country subgenre
- ↑ Edwards, Gavin (August 30, 2019). "10 Country Albums Rolling Stone Loved in the 1970s You Never Heard". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
Country-rock songwriter Lee Clayton arguably was responsible the term "outlaw country" in 1972
- ↑ Strauss, Neil (September 4, 2000). "Songwriter's Racist Songs From 1980's Haunt Him". The New York Times. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Ankeny, Jason. "Jessi Colter Biography by Jason Ankeny". AllMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Stegall, Tim (December 3, 2021). "Beaumonster: A Memoir by Jesse Dayton". Austin Chronicle. Retrieved March 12, 2024.
- ↑ Paul, John (June 23, 2017). "STEVE EARLE: SO YOU WANT TO BE AN OUTLAW". PopMatters. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
Steve Earle reaffirms his country outlaw status with the appropriately titled, outlaw country primer So You Want to Be an Outlaw.
- ↑ Zimmerman, Lee (December 29, 2019). "An Unapologetic Insurgent, Kinky Friedman Ponders 'Resurrection' In Later Life". American Songwriter. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
If Kinky Friedman had done nothing more than share his daring and defiant brand of outlaw country in the early '70s and merely mined his associations with Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson as part of that celebrity circle, it likely would have been enough to ensure his immortality.
- ↑ Jordan, Marsha (October 2, 2018). "ETHAN HAWKE DIRECTS 'BLAZE,' TRUE STORY OF OUTLAW COUNTRY ARTIST BLAZE FOLEY". ABC7 Chicago. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Ochs, Meredith (December 17, 2005). "Meredith Ochs' Top 10 CDs of 2005". NPR. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
NPR music reviewer Meredith Ochs shares her picks for the year's best CDs, from the "sacred-meets-profane" rock of the White Stripes to outlaw country singer Merle Haggard.
- 1 2 Brodsky, Rachel (January 12, 2023). "The Story Behind Every Song On Margo Price's New Album Strays". Stereogum. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
Price tends to be slotted into the Outlaw Country category by journalists, who liken her to genre pillars Tanya Tucker and Emmylou Harris.
- ↑ Whitaker, Sterling (June 11, 2015). "Outlaw Country Singer Randy Howard Dies in Shootout With Bounty Hunter". Taste of Country. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Kelly, Lauren (July 16, 2020). "Ray Wylie Hubbard talks new album, collaborations, getting kidnapped by Willie Nelson". Houston Life. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
His sound is described as outlaw country blending sounds of country, rock and roll, blues and folk music.
- ↑ Courtney, James (October 18, 2018). "Shooter Jennings Bringing Outlaw Country Tunes to Gruene Hall This Weekend". San Antonio Current. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Scalia, Christopher J. (June 23, 2023). "The 50th anniversary of when Waylon Jennings and Billy Joe Shaver created outlaw country". Washington Examiner. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Patania, Matthew (November 22, 2021). "American Outlaw Country Singer-Songwriter Cody Jinks Journeys Through Time On Latest Record, 'Mercy'". Pulse Music Magazine. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ "On the Beat: Jamey Johnson to bring true outlaw country to Bourbon". Lincoln Journal-Star. October 19, 2018. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Ryan, Stuart (March 25, 2024). "Janis Joplin covered his songs and he was in a supergroup with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings – Kris Kristofferson is a movie star and outlaw country icon with a classic acoustic style". Guitarworld. Retrieved June 1, 2024.
- ↑ Newman, Jason (March 5, 2014). "Outlaw Country Singer Nikki Lane Goes 'All or Nothin' on New Album". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 2, 2014.
- ↑ Jensen, Andrew (January 8, 2020). "From alt-rock to outlaw country, Aaron Lewis shares struggles amid success". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
Lewis is leaving his performing band the Stateliners behind to share his brand of outlaw country in "its purest form," with only a microphone and his acoustic guitar.
- ↑ Howard, Jonathan (February 16, 2022). "Outlaw Country Singer C.W. McCall in Hospice". Outsider. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Duke, Alan (November 25, 2013). "Outlaw country singer Wayne Mills dies in bar shooting". CNN. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ McElhiney, Brian (December 6, 2018). "Whitey Morgan brings outlaw country to Bend". Bend Bulletin. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Peacock, Tim (April 25, 2023). "Lineup For 2023 Outlaw Music Festival". uDiscoverMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Susman, Gary (February 20, 2003). "Johnny PayCheck dies at 64". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Pilley, Max (February 25, 2019). "Orville Peck – The outlaw country singer who believes effort is king". Loud and Quiet. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Fraser, Max (2018). "Down in the Hole: Outlaw Country and Outlaw Culture". Southern Cultures. 24 (3): 83–100. doi:10.1353/scu.2018.0034. ISSN 1534-1488. S2CID 149612754.
- ↑ Hall, Kristen M. (October 28, 2020). "Outlaw country artist Billy Joe Shaver dead at 81". Associated Press. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Mellard, Jason (2013). "The New Cross Between Baba Ram Dass and Sam Bass". Progressive Country:How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-75467-6.
- ↑ Tucker, Stephen R. (2012). Kingsbury, Paul; McCall, Michael; Rumble, John (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Country Music (Second ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-0-19-539563-1.
- ↑ Himes, Geoffrey (August 28, 1996). "COUNTRY MUSIC'S NEW PAIR OF OUTLAWS". Washington Post. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
Tritt was an outsider, playing a mix of Southern rock and outlaw country in Atlanta bar bands before signing a record deal.
- ↑ Murray, Noel (October 20, 2022). "Outlaw country star gets the respect she deserves in 'The Return of Tanya Tucker'". LA Times. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Hudak, Joseph (October 24, 2020). "Jerry Jeff Walker, Outlaw Country Architect and 'Mr. Bojangles' Songwriter, Dead at 78". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Deming, Mark. "Wheeler Walker, Jr. Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Hank Williams, Jr. Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved July 7, 2023.
- ↑ Guerrero, Desiree (April 30, 2020). "Meet the New Queer Queen of Outlaw Country". The Advocate. Retrieved July 25, 2023.
- ↑ "Hank Williams III Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio". AllMusic.