Back in the early 1970s, when a handful of Country singers and songwriters decided that they could bypass the stranglehold of the Nashville establishment and strike out in new, independent directions, they called themselves Outlaws.  Mixing cues from the Wild West and the hippie counterculture, they grew their hair long, dressed funny, piled on the attitude and upped their indulgences. Waylon Jennings


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