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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A.V. Club head writer and hip-hop specialist Nathan Rabin recently decided to spend a year or two immersing himself in the canon of country music, a genre he knew little about, but was keen to explore ...

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 ...

Country singer-songwriter Mike Stinson, the consummate indie underdog, spent the better part of two decades in Los Angeles quietly churning out a slew of uniformly first-rate original honky-tonk ...

WACO, Texas (CBSDFW.COM/AP) - Corsicana-born Billy Joe Shaver, the seminal outlaw country songwriter of "Honky Tonk Heroes," has died at 81. Shaver wrote songs for Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and ...

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 ...

Just about every country singer you can think of – from Waylon Jennings to Johnny Cash to Willie Nelson – has turned the songs of Billy Joe Shaver into hits. Even Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan have ...

They say everything is bigger in Texas. That goes for legends, too, but Billy Joe Shaver lived a life that was bigger and wilder than any legend could contain. Shaver, the singer-songwriter who most ...