The Glaser Brothers

Outlaws, by definition, operate outside the system. By that criteria, there was no greater outlaw in country music during the 1970s than Tompall Glaser, a running partner of Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson who never quite managed to play the game and become a star, or even have that many hits despite being showcased on the era-defining 1976 compilation Wanted! The Outlaws, and despite chasing after outlaw cash whenever the opportunity arrived. Such contradictions are inherent within Tompall Glaser, whose attitude was quintessentially outlaw -- tales of feuds and fallouts run rife in his career -- but he would try to bend his music to fit the times, all in hopes of scoring that one elusive hit single. Tompall and the Glaser Brothers crafted the musical template that forever became known as outlaw country.