It’s one thing to say you’re an outlaw, it’s another to live that truth. Outlaw country artists certainly talk a big game. However, their actions make it more than just meaningless posturing.

In 2015, women singers in country music were told they were just the "tomatoes" in a salad of male stars — a juicy soundbite that became known as Tomatogate. One decade later, frustration is ...

Roots artists with more defined country leanings could join "traditional" country artists with connections to the Western, Western Swing and Outlaw country scenes to create an impressively diverse ...

Others topped the country chart a single time but released a wealth of music that inspired future artists. These country artists from the 1970s are sometimes called one-hit wonders, but in truth ...

The artists below aren't all underrated themselves. You might even be familiar with most of them. The songs I've chosen for each of them, however, are extremely underrated within their wider ...