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re: Who was the most popular outlaw country singer at the height of its popularity?
Posted on 3/17/18 at 10:34 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Posted on 3/17/18 at 10:34 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I have never been Partial to that term "outlaw country"
What does it even fricking mean?
It's just a label that some people gave to themselves to sell more records.
I guess it worked. Those guys were selling a lot of records and getting plenty of airplay.
There wasn't anything outlaw about it.
Maybe they weren't getting invited to The Grand Ole Opry much,but that doesn't seem like much of a big deal to me.
There were even people trying hard to get themselves labeled as outlaw country artists.
Kind of ridiculous when you think about it.
What does it even fricking mean?
It's just a label that some people gave to themselves to sell more records.
I guess it worked. Those guys were selling a lot of records and getting plenty of airplay.
There wasn't anything outlaw about it.
Maybe they weren't getting invited to The Grand Ole Opry much,but that doesn't seem like much of a big deal to me.
There were even people trying hard to get themselves labeled as outlaw country artists.
Kind of ridiculous when you think about it.
This post was edited on 3/18/18 at 7:45 am
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Posted on 3/17/18 at 10:36 pm to auggie
Posted on 3/17/18 at 11:50 pm to auggie
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What does it even fricking mean?
It was basically a break from the Nashville establishment. More folksy, Americana type stuff with a little southern rock influence.
Posted on 3/18/18 at 2:14 pm to auggie
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What does it even fricking mean?
Seems like I read once that it was a label made up by a New York magazine, maybe The New Yorker?, when they did a piece on country music that was hip in Austin in the 70s.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 4:34 pm to auggie
Hazel Smith, credited with coining country's 'outlaw music' term, dead at 83
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After moving to Nashville with her two young sons, Smith became the publicist for irreverent singer-songwriter Kinky Friedman.
In the early 1970s, while working as a publicist at the Glaser Brothers' "Hillbilly Central" office/studio on 19th Avenue S., she began using the term "outlaw music" to describe the songs of country renegades like Tompall Glaser, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson.
"Now, it doesn’t say this in mine or any other dictionary I’ve seen, but it said that outlaw meant virtually living on the outside of the written law," Smith told The Nashville Scene in 1997. "It just made sense to me, because Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins were doing marvelous music, but this was another step in another direction."
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