By the 1970s, country music was going through changes. A new breed of country star was taking over the charts, replacing the old school style of yesterday with a new type of outlaw glamour. Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, and dozens of others were all making as big a dent on the pop charts as the country charts, taking the genre away from the rhinestone boots and fringed shirts of the past and creating a new template for the future. That’s not to say there wasn’t still a place...
By the 1970s, country music was going through changes. A new breed of country star was taking over the charts, replacing the old school style of yesterday with a new type of outlaw glamour. Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, and dozens of others were all making as big a dent on the pop charts as the country charts, taking the genre away from the rhinestone boots and fringed shirts of the past and creating a new template for the future. That’s not to say there wasn’t still a place...
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