Outlaw Country was one of the more significant trends in country music in the '70s. During that decade, many of the most popular hardcore country singers of the '60s -- from George Jones to Merle Haggard -- softened their sound slightly, moving away from their honky tonk roots. While the...
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and with good reason. While the previous decade had seen tremendous evolutions and revolutions alike in rock and soul music, country was still stuck in slightly more traditional ways. But with the dawn of the 70s, the floodgates had finally burst for country music, in Nashville and beyond...
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Another style that appeared in the 60s and continued into the 70s and beyond is country pop in which the story-telling lyrics and lilting sounds of country music are combined with the catchy melodies of pop. While the genre has produced a lot of second-rate music, it has also produced ...
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Outlaw Country Outlaw Country is a sub-genre of country music, and artists who composed the genre were often regarded outlaws in their time. This kind of country music became extremely well-known all through the 60s, 70s as well as the 80s. In spite of this, Outlaw Country’s origins tra...
Decade New 2000s 1,464 80s & 90s 137 60s & 70s 171 50s and earlier 133 Properties Looped 425 Excludes P.R.O. 645 Excludes Content ID 366 A CountryBy ikoliks 1:25 5 TracksBPM 150 This Is CountryBy TexasBrother 2:24 4 TracksBPM 110 CountryBy EasyTunes 1:15 1 TrackBPM 165 The...
Dick Curless was one of the most versatile and powerfully eloquent singers of his time.Dick Curless: Hard Traveling Man from Maineexplores the singer’s life and career, from his rural Northeast upbringing and popular truck-driving songs of the ’60s-’70s, to his critically acclaimed 1995 ...
At the same time, artists like Johnny Cash, came out of the rockabilly style to perform a more stripped-down, highly personal music, scoring hits with his "I Walk the Line" and, in the '60s, "Folsom Prison Blues." The 1960s-'70s: New Female Voices and The Outlaws As early as ...