The History of Outlaw Country Music: When Country Music Broke the Rules. Outlaw country music wasn’t just a new sound—it was a movement. Born in the early 1970s, outlaw country challenged the polished, commercial style coming out of Nashville and gave artists the freedom to write and record music on their own terms. Instead of
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What is it about the relationship between alcohol and country music? Sure, every genre of music brushes up against the idea of drinking. Rock bands often sing about their partying ways. Rap music will often give a shout-out to a specific type of liquor. But it’s country music that has historically always leaned so heavily
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To look out upon the world today, you see wars raging, racial strife, people struggling, and a general sense of anger that many feel is unprecedented. What’s happening to us?! Though this is what is called “recent bias.” Sadly, the world has always been this way. Americans in particular look back on past slavery, a
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Okay, so before you go looking for the band in the title of this article, let us just say that “Elvis Nash and The Independents” is not some new group on the scene. Elvis Nash is a great country music songwriter, whose songs you can find on the Internet. The gist of this article is
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Earworms. Yep, that’s what they’re called. They’re those songs you hear on the radio while driving to work or to the store, and you can’t even remember what the song is actually about, but the chorus and the beat get stuck in your head. You find yourself humming along to the song. It’s driving you
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Many of you country music fans out there know the story about how Kris Kristofferson convinced Johnny Cash to sing Kris’s song, “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” And if you don’t know this story, it’s a great one! Kristofferson, who was in the Army at the time, found himself in financial distress and needed to push
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What’s your favorite country music radio station? Whatever it is, the odds are good that you listen to it a lot, and thus you hear a lot of modern country music. You hear Luke Combs, short-haired Blake Shelton, Kelsey Ballerini, and other modern pop-country stars. Though have you ever noticed that these are the songs
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A personal commentary from site owner and country music songwriter Elvis Nash about chasing goals: With everything that’s happened these last few years, it’s easy to feel like time doesn’t move quite the same as it used to. The ticks of the clock can feel longer than they ever have and yet days can
There’s a role we all play in our lives, even if we don’t realize we’re playing it. The fact is, most of us do realize we’re playing it. We may hate our jobs and just want to break into a spontaneous David Allan Coe session and tell our boss to take this job and shove
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If you’re a fan of old country music or the genre in general, you may be wondering why you’re reading about Internet bullying on a website that sells country music clothing. Well, the fact is that whether it’s a mega-star performer like Luke Combs or an amateur country music songwriter like Elvis Nash, these are
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