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Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver wrote nearly the entirety of Waylon Jennings's influential 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes, a record widely credited as one of the foundational albums of the outlaw country movement, giving Shaver significant behind-the-scenes creative importance to the genre's earliest commercial breakthrough. His own recording career, while never achieving the same commercial success as Jennings or Willie Nelson, earned him deep respect within the country music songwriting community for the raw, autobiographical honesty of his lyrics, drawing directly on his own hardscrabble Texas upbringing. Shaver survived a serious heart attack and open-heart surgery in the mid-2000s, and a 2007 shooting incident in which he shot a man in self-defense outside a Texas bar, for which he was later acquitted, added to his genuine outlaw reputation well into his later life. His combination of foundational songwriting contributions to outlaw country's earliest landmark recordings and his own uncompromising, autobiographically honest performing career has made Shaver one of the most respected "songwriter's songwriter" figures within the outlaw country tradition.
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Jessi Colter
Jessi Colter was the only woman featured on the landmark 1976 compilation album Wanted! The Outlaws, giving her a foundational role in outlaw country's formal commercial establishment as the genre's most significant early female representative. Her 1975 song "I'm Not Lisa" became a number-one country hit and a top-five pop crossover success, establishing Colter as a significant commercial success in her own right beyond her marriage to fellow outlaw country pioneer Waylon Jennings. Colter's more introspective, ethereal vocal and songwriting style distinguished her from the more overtly rebellious, hard-living outlaw persona associated with many of her male outlaw country contemporaries, giving the movement a genuinely different stylistic register within its broader commercial identity. Her combination of genuine chart success and her foundational role as the outlaw country movement's most significant female artist has made Colter one of the most historically important women in the development of country music's broader outlaw tradition.
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