Country music

====Outlaw movement====
[[File:Willie Nelson Promotional Photo - cropped.jpg|thumb|left|upright|[[Willie Nelson]] (1974)]]
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[[Outlaw country]] was derived from the traditional western, including [[Red dirt (music)|Red Dirt]], [[New Mexico music|New Mexico]], [[Texas country music|Texas country]], [[Tejano music|Tejano]], and [[honky-tonk]] musical styles of the late 1950s and 1960s. Songs such as the 1963 [[Johnny Cash]] popularized "[[Ring of Fire (song)|Ring of Fire]]" show clear influences from the likes of [[Al Hurricane]] and [[Little Joe (singer)|Little Joe]], this influence just happened to culminate with artists such as [[Ray Price (musician)|Ray Price]] (whose band, the "Cherokee Cowboys", included [[Willie Nelson]] and [[Roger Miller]]) and mixed with the anger of an alienated subculture of the nation during the period, a collection of musicians that came to be known as the [[outlaw country|outlaw movement]] revolutionized the genre of country music in the early 1970s.<ref name="Billboard 1974 TX">{{cite magazine | magazine=Billboard | date= September 7, 1974 | title= Giley, Rodriguez, Spread Fame Of Texas Country Music Heritage | publisher=[[Nielsen Business Media]], Inc. }}</ref><ref name="Billboard 1974 NM">{{cite magazine | magazine=Billboard | date= September 7, 1974 | title= Hurricane Enterprises in New Mexico | publisher= }}</ref> "After I left Nashville (the early 70s), I wanted to relax and play the music that I wanted to play, and just stay around Texas, maybe Oklahoma. Waylon and I had that outlaw image going, and when it caught on at colleges and we started selling records, we were O.K. The whole outlaw thing, it had nothing to do with the music, it was something that got written in an article, and the young people said, 'Well, that's pretty cool.' And started listening." (Willie Nelson)<ref>"The Roots of Country Music" Collectors Edition by ''Life'', September 1, 1994, page 72</ref> The term ''outlaw country'' is traditionally associated with [[Willie Nelson]], [[Jerry Jeff Walker]],<ref>[http://www.axs.com/jerry-jeff-walker-bringing-outlaw-country-to-bi]{{dead link|date=February 2017}}</ref> [[Hank Williams, Jr.]], Merle Haggard, [[Waylon Jennings]] and [[Joe Ely]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.outlawcountrycruise.com/lineup/view/76/|title=Joe Ely Band|last=Sixthman}}</ref> It was encapsulated in the 1976 album ''[[Wanted! The Outlaws]]''.

Though the outlaw movement as a cultural fad had died down after the late 1970s (with Jennings noting in 1978 that it had [[Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand|gotten out of hand]] and led to real-life legal scrutiny), many western and outlaw country music artists maintained their popularity during the 1980s by forming [[Supergroup (music)|supergroups]], such as [[The Highwaymen (country supergroup)|The Highwaymen]],<ref>{{cite web | last=Browne | first=David | title=Country Music's Counter-Culture 1980s Supergroup, The Highwaymen | website=AARP | date=January 30, 2018 | url=http://www.aarp.org/entertainment/music/info-2016/highwaymen-country-supergroup-documentary.html | access-date=December 23, 2020}}</ref> [[Texas Tornados]],<ref>{{cite web | title=Texas Tornados | website=TSHA | date=March 19, 2011 | url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-tornados | access-date=December 23, 2020}}</ref> and [[Bandido (supergroup)|Bandido]].<ref>{{AllMusic | id= al-hurricane-mn0001206671 | tab= biography | title= Biography of Al Hurricane}}</ref>