 Label: Sony/BMG
Sound/Style: commercially slanted and thematically progressive country-rock
In the early 1970s, a handful of renegade country artists led by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings sought to escape the conservative constraints of the country music market. They eventually won the creative freedom afforded to rock acts, resulting in music that was as rock-and-roll-loud as it was country proud. Its impact can be felt today in the work of mainstream performers like Montgomery Gentry, who came of age absorbing the sounds of raucous, rocked-up country.
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