Bryan Andrews, YouTube<\/span><\/p> For a male country artist in the ’70s, Jennings was unusually supportive of women taking on leadership roles in the music business.<\/p>\n In the same interview Andrews cited, Jennings also said\u00a0that the business side of his career was staffed with women, and that his wife, fellow outlaw artist Jessi Colter<\/a>, was “much smarter than I am.”<\/p>\n Read More<\/em>: Why Mickey Guyton Is Country Music’s Biggest, Baddest Modern-Day Outlaw<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Another point Andrews made was about how the history of NASCAR is enmeshed with anti-police sentiment and moonshine, an enterprise created by the rural Southern working class in defiance of federal laws.<\/p>\n The racing sport, which has massive crossover appeal to a country-listening base, has origins in\u00a0the Prohibition-era moonshine business<\/a>. Drivers began racing the fast cars they used to outrun the highway patrol at fairs and racetracks in the 1930s.<\/p>\n Bryan Andrews, YouTube<\/span><\/p> “NASCAR is an entire sport founded on moonshiners in the South outrunning the cops during Prohibition,” Andrews’ sign reads. “Yeehaw, f–k the law.”<\/p>\n I don’t see you on the front line \/ I don’t see you on the street \/ You call yourself a rebel \/ But all I see is sheep \/ They’re roundin’ up our neighbors \/ They’re tradin’ in our church \/ You call yourself a Christian \/ Then put Jesus in a hearse\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Where my outlaws at? \/ Where my outlaws singin’\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Chorus:<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeehaw, f–k the law \/ Land of the free ain’t free for all \/ Until the law ain’t f–kin’ y’all \/ It’s yeehaw, f–k the law<\/em><\/p>\n I’ve seen you lick the boot \/ So I just gotta ask \/ Do you gotta get it soakin’ wet \/ To shove it up your a–? \/ They’re servin’ up our daughters \/ They’re shippin’ off our sons \/ Next thing you know they’ll skip the vote \/ And come for all your guns<\/em><\/p>\n Where my outlaws at? Where my outlaws singin’<\/em><\/p>\n Repeat Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n Willie, Waylon, Johnny Cash \/ They gonna want them records back \/ Y’all talk the talk, y’all fly the flag \/ So where the f–k y’all outlaws at?<\/em><\/p>\n Repeat Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n With its roots in the ’60s and the honky-tonk style forged by Hank Williams, outlaw country music began to snowball in the ’70s as more and more artists bristled against the genre’s commercialism, social conventions and the slick and shiny “Nashville Sound.”<\/p>\n Though some artists like Johnny Paycheck and David Allan Coe had served jail time before their success, the “outlaw” label applied more broadly to those artists who rejected the status quo in Nashville. Many of the definitive songs of the movement speak directly to that rebellion, while others simply embody an artist-driven, independent musical vision that sidestepped Nashville’s country hit formula of the day.<\/p>\n Keep reading for a round-up of 30 songs that define the outlaw country movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Carena Liptak<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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30 Outlaw Country Songs That Define The Movement<\/h2>\n