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Al Perkins is an American guitarist known primarily for his steel guitar work. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential dobro player" and began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001—designed and autographed by Perkins.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nitty Gritty Dirt Band</span> American band

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country rock band formed in 1966. The group has existed in various forms since its founding in Long Beach, California. Between 1976 and 1981, the band performed and recorded as the Dirt Band.

Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and David Allan Coe were among the movement's most commercially successful members.

Michael Martin Murphey is an American singer-songwriter. He was one of the founding artists of progressive country. A multiple Grammy nominee, Murphey has six gold albums, including Cowboy Songs, the first album of cowboy music to achieve gold status since Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs by Marty Robbins in 1959. He has recorded the hit singles "Wildfire", "Carolina in the Pines", "What's Forever For", "A Long Line of Love", "What She Wants", "Don't Count the Rainy Days", and "Maybe This Time". Murphey is also the author of New Mexico's state ballad, "The Land of Enchantment". Murphey has become a prominent musical voice for the Western horseman, rancher, and cowboy.

Progressive country is a term used variously to describe a movement, radio format or subgenre of country music which developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a reaction against the slick, pop-oriented Nashville sound. Progressive country artists drew from Bakersfield and classic honky-tonk country and rock and roll, as well as folk, bluegrass, blues and Southern rock. Progressive country is sometimes conflated with outlaw country, which some country fans consider to be a harder-edged variant.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jerry Douglas</span> American bluegrass musician

Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prolific." A fourteen-time Grammy winner, he has been called “dobro’s matchless contemporary master,” by The New York Times, and is among the most innovative recording artists in music, both as a solo artist and member of numerous bands, such as Alison Krauss and Union Station and The Earls of Leicester. He has been a co-director of the Transatlantic Sessions since 1998.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Livingston (musician)</span> American singer-songwriter

Bob Livingston is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, bass player, and a founding member of The Lost Gonzo Band. Livingston was a key figure in the Cosmic Cowboy, progressive country and outlaw country movements that distinguished the Austin, Texas music scene in the 1970s. Over the years, Bob Livingston has gained a reputation as a band leader, solo artist, session musician and sideman in folk, Americana and country music. He has toured without stop for 47 years, and is one of the most experienced and world traveled musicians in all of Texas music. Livingston's CD, Gypsy Alibi, released by New Wilderness Records in 2011, won the "Album of the Year" at the Texas Music Awards. In January 2016, Livingston was inducted into the Texas Music Legends Hall of Fame in 2016 and into the West Texas Music Walk of Fame in 2018. Howlin' Dog Records released Livingston's latest CD, Up The Flatland Stairs, January 10, 2018.

<i>Viva Terlingua</i> 1973 live album by Jerry Jeff Walker

¡Viva Terlingua! is a progressive country album by Jerry Jeff Walker and The Lost Gonzo Band. It was recorded in August 1973 at the Luckenbach Dancehall in Luckenbach, Texas, and released three months later, in November 1973, on MCA Nashville Records. The album captures Walker's strived-for "gonzo country" sound, a laid-back country base with notes of "outlaw" rock, blues, and traditional Mexican norteño and Tejano styles. The album was mostly recorded live in the dancehall without an audience over several days, but two songs were recorded live with an audience.

<i>Sweet Mother Texas</i> 1986 studio album by Waylon Jennings

Sweet Mother Texas is an album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Records in 1986. "Hanging On" was written by Tony Joe White.

Paul Kennerley is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Randy Scruggs</span> American guitarist and songwriter (1953–2018)

Randy Lynn Scruggs was an American music producer, songwriter and guitarist. He had his first recording at the age of 13. He won four Grammy Awards and was named Musician of the Year at the Country Music Association Awards three times. He was the middle son of Earl Scruggs and Louise Scruggs.

Barefoot Jerry is an American progressive country rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. They have been described as a seminal southern rock band. The band was most active from 1971 to 1977. It was composed of area studio musicians under the tutelage of Wayne Moss and Mac Gayden. Barefoot Jerry was named after a country fiddle player who performed inside a store next to Gayden's home in the Smoky Mountains.

<i>Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two</i> 1989 studio album by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two is the nineteenth studio album by American country folk group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, released on May 1, 1989. The album follows the same concept as the band's 1972 album, Will the Circle Be Unbroken, which featured guest performances from many notable country music stars.

David Paul Briggs is an American keyboardist, record producer, arranger, composer, and studio owner. Briggs is one of an elite core of Nashville studio musicians known as "the Nashville Cats" and has been featured in a major exhibition by the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2015. He played his first recording session at the age of 14 and has gone on to add keyboards to a plethora of pop, rock, and country artists, as well as recording hundreds of corporate commercials.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Herb Pedersen</span> American musician, guitarist, banjo player, songwriter

Herbert Joseph Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, singer-songwriter, and actor who has played a variety of musical styles over the past fifty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different bands.

<i>The Earl Scruggs Revue</i> 1973 studio album by The Earl Scruggs Revue

The Earl Scruggs Revue is a 1973 album by the progressive country band of the same name, formed by Earl Scruggs with his sons Gary and Randy Scruggs.

Jeffrey R. Hanna is an American singer-songwriter and performance musician, best known for his association with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. His professional music career has spanned six decades.

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  4. 1 2 3 Hill, Jack W. (August 16, 2012). "In coal country, Knight discovered gold on vinyl". The Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved July 22, 2023. He got a lot of progressive country kind of artists, such as Dan Fogelberg, Jackson Browne, Jonathan Edwards, J.J. Cale, the Charlie Daniels Band and Barefoot Jerry
  5. ↑ Tunis, Walter (June 1, 2023). "10 not-to-miss bands, singers at this weekend's Railbird Music Festival in Lexington". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved July 24, 2023. a bill topped by progressive country upstart Zach Bryan
  6. ↑ "Top Album Picks". Billboard . June 30, 1973. Retrieved July 24, 2023.
  7. ↑ Kemp, Mark (November 2007). Dixie Lullaby. Free Press. p. 199. ISBN   9781416590460 . Retrieved July 24, 2023. progressive country-folk legend Johnny Cash
  8. 1 2 Holden, Stephen (July 12, 1981). "POP: JERRY JEFF WALKER". The New York Times. Mr. Walker fits squarely into the "progressive country" category, which was invented in the early 1970's for artists like Mickey Newbury, Kris Kristofferson and Lee Clayton, who also brought a literary flair to their country laments.
  9. ↑ "We've Got a Live One Here". Cash Box. Internet Archive. July 17, 1976. Retrieved September 7, 2020.
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  11. 1 2 Cech, Tom (October 15, 1977). "Traditional Country + Modern Sound". Billboard . Retrieved July 24, 2023.
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  17. 1 2 3 4 Carr, Patrick (July 22, 1973). "It's So 'Progressive' in Texas". The New York Times . Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  18. ↑ Ellis, Widner (July 10, 2011). "Emmylou Harris broadens what it means to be country". Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
  19. ↑ Manheim, Jamss. "John Hartford Biography by James Manheim". AllMusic . Retrieved July 25, 2023. Hartford was a multi-talented old-time musician, a riverboat captain, a satirical songwriter, a one-man showman of exceptional talents, and one of the founders of both progressive country music and old-time string music revivalism.
  20. ↑ Hamilton, Bretney (January 8, 2018). "The Road Gives Bob Livingston Life on New Record". Cowboys & Indians. Retrieved July 22, 2023. In the beginning, Bob Livingston helped create progressive country music.
  21. ↑ Staff (December 3, 2010). "RAUL MALO: 'I'M NOT IN THE MAINSTREAM COUNTRY MUSIC GAME ANY MORE'". OC Weekly. Retrieved July 25, 2023. After they disbanded in the early 2000s, Malo went solo and continued to make superb, thoughtful if progressive country music on his own.
  22. 1 2 Manheim, James. "Gary Morris Biography". AllMusic . Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  23. ↑ Moser, Margaret (August 12, 2011). "Michael Martin Murphey, Brad Dunn & Ellis Country, The Duqaines, Wheeler Brothers, Jubal's Lawyer, and T Jarod Bonta". The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved July 24, 2023. a face on Austin's Mount Rushmore of progressive country, the now Colorado-based Murphey is a Western storyteller in the Marty Robbins fashion
  24. ↑ Dansby, Andrew (December 10, 2021). "Texas native, Monkees great Michael Nesmith dies". San Antonio Express-News. Retrieved July 23, 2023. Nesmith was a musician of multiple dimensions: a thoughtful songwriter too funny to be embraced by hippies and a progressive country music artist too full of angular edges to be embraced by Nashville. His genius was in his totality, which defied easy description.
  25. ↑ Cahill, Greg (April 5, 2006). "Rough & Reddy: NRPS are back in town". Metro Silicon Valley. Retrieved July 23, 2023. Unbeknownst to Cage, that trip would provide a ticket across a psychedelic landscape and a charter membership in the progressive-country band the New Riders of the Purple Sage.
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  27. 1 2 Aaron, Charles (November 8, 2020). "The Ballad Of Billy Joe Shaver And Jerry Jeff Walker, Country Outlaws". NPR . Retrieved July 22, 2023.
  28. ↑ Tsahalis, Kostantina. "Do You Actually Hate Country?". Stuyvesant Spectator. Retrieved July 23, 2023. Chock-full of whistles and yodels, Nick Shoulders makes progressive country music that has its fair share of politically charged tunes.
  29. ↑ Ramsey, Jan (January 16, 2017). "Video: New Orleans Horns Light Up SNL With Sturgill Simpson". OffBeat. Retrieved July 23, 2023.
  30. ↑ Nash, Alanna (July 24, 1992). "This One's Gonna Hurt You". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved July 23, 2023. Past stints with Lester Flatt and Johnny Cash had made him a conduit between old-time hillbilly and bluegrass and progressive country music.
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