It is difficult to exaggerate Charlie Poole's influence on American country music. The Spray, N.C., native's complex banjo technique, so different from the flailing styles of old-time music, is ...

These good ol’ boys — and they are all boys — aren’t outlaw country. They are “8 Mile” country, white acts making country inflected with contemporary Black music for mass audiences.

Willie Nelson saw Waylon Jennings perform at JD’s nightclub in Tempe in 1965 and was immediately impressed. Nelson and Jennings rebelled at Nashville's music restrictions, sparking the outlaw ...

Willie Nelson has been “cleared” to return to his co-headlining Outlaw Music Festival with Bob Dylan after missing the tour’s first week of shows due to an unspecified illness.. On Friday ...

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube. 3. Waylon Jennings: “Honky Tonk Heroes” Arguably the definitive outlaw country album, Waylon Jennings’s “Honky Tonk Heroes” (1973) was his ...