In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of Comics Week, we’re focusing on songs with “hero” in their titles. Even in a town as steeped in folklore ...

In the 1970s, a shift began in country music, away from the slick production of Nashville toward a rougher sound in both lyrics and instrumentation. The movement was called Outlaw Country and its ...

Jason Petty pays tribute to Hank Williams and other country legends at Flat Rock Playhouse from October 23 through November 9. Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes takes audiences back in time to the very ...

Back in May, some of the key players of the Outlaw Country movement took the stage at the CMA Theater in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum to pay musical tribute to the Hall’s superb new ...

The smash musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be off-putting to some audiences and indeed, Saturday evening’s crowd at the Common Ground Theatre seemed nervous. The laughter was hushed and sparse as ...

Billy Joe Shaver has released, at age 75, what he calls his own very best recording, "Long in the Tooth." He terms its 10 songs "dangerously good" - in fact just as good as the nine Shaver songs that ...

Dale Watson is a straight shooter and the most authoritative baritone this side of Johnny Cash; when he sings something, you believe it straightaway. He usually spends a couple of hundred days a year ...

If anyone has the pedigree to pick out a trio of favorite honky-tonkers, it’s Shooter Jennings, son of Jessi Colter and Waylon. As someone who has kept that outlaw country freak flag flying loud and ...

An album that formed a cornerstone of the "Outlaw Country" movement in the 1970s has just been reissued. Music critic Meredith Ochs has been... The Legend Behind 'Honky Tonk Heroes' AUDIE CORNISH, ...

When Nashville veteran and off-Broadway star Jason Petty steps onto the stage in a Nudie suit, black leather cowboy boots and a wide-brimmed hat, it’s hard not to do a double take. Petty looks like ...