This article is about the country music genre. For Sirius XM radio channel, see Outlaw Country (Sirius XM). For the films, see Outlaw Country (1949 film) and Outlaw Country (2012 film). For the Legends of Tomorrow episode, see Outlaw Country (Legends of Tomorrow).
Outlaw country
Other names
Armadillo country[1]
redneck rock[1]
Stylistic origins
Country
rockabilly
rock and roll
folk
blues
Cultural origins
1960s, Bakersfield, California, Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, U.S.
Derivative forms
Texas country
alternative country
Other topics
Country musicians
list of years in country music
Outlaw country[2] is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and David Allan Coe were among the movement's most commercially successful members.
The music has its roots in earlier subgenres like Western, honky tonk, rockabilly and progressive country, and is characterized by a blend of rock and folk rhythms, country instrumentation and introspective lyrics.[3][4] The movement began as a reaction to the slick production and limiting structures of the Nashville sound developed by record producers like Chet Atkins.[3][5]
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^ ab"Outlaw music". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
^Streissguth, Michael (2014). Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville. itbooks. ISBN 0062038192.
^"Nashville Recording Industry | Entries | Tennessee Encyclopedia". Tennesseeencyclopedia.net. Retrieved May 4, 2016.
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