Back in May, some of the key players of the Outlaw Country movement took the stage at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to pay musical tribute to the Hall’s superb new ...

This jam from Waylon Jennings is one of the most memorable outlaw country songs of the era, and it unapologetically embraced the hard-living stories of honky tonk heroes that clashed against the clean ...

Billy Joe Shaver has released, at age 75, what he calls his own very best recording, "Long in the Tooth." He terms its 10 songs "dangerously good" - in fact just as good as the nine Shaver songs that ...

They say everything is bigger in Texas. That goes for legends, too, but Billy Joe Shaver lived a life that was bigger and wilder than any legend could contain. Shaver, the singer-songwriter who most ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of Comics Week, we’re focusing on songs with “hero” in their titles. Even in a town as steeped in folklore ...

A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore ...

This is not your work-week rock-and-roll-and adios — that’ll more than likely come tomorrow morning. But this’ll do. While we await a piece from Patrick Michels about some doings at Cliff Manor this ...