OUTLAWS & ARMADILLOS: COUNTRY’S ROARING ’70S
Student Materials for Grades 7-12
The exhibition Outlaws and Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ‘70s is view at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum® from May 25, 2018 – February 14, 2021.
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Images
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Outlaws & Armadillos artwork created by Jim Franklin.
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Mike Tolleson, co-founded of Armadillo World Headquarters, kept this stuffed armadillo in his office. He named it Arturo.
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Bandana worn by Willie Nelson in the 1970s.
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Willie Nelson gave Bobby Bare this hat--embellished with a mink skull, gemstone, feathers, and snake skin--in the early 1970s.
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This wagon wheel was propped at the front entrance of the Broken Spoke dance hall for many years.
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Austin, Texas bootmaker Charlie Dunn made this pair of cowboy boots for Guy Clark.
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This painting by Susanna Clark was used as cover art for Willie Nelson's album Stardust in 1978.
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Jerry Jeff Walker performed in this sleeveless Lee denim jacket embellished with embroidery and patches.
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Backing board from a Bally six-card bingo pinball machine. Tompall Glaser installed a similar model at this Nashville recording studio, Hillbilly Central.
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Shel Silverstein used this hard-traveled and weather-worn classical guitar to write many of his songs. He later gave it to his best friend and frequent collaborator, Bobby Bare.
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Sneakers worn by Willie Nelson in the 1970s.
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Suede blouse and skirt worn by Jessi Colter on the cover of her album, That's the Way a Cowboy Rocks and Rolls (1978).
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Austin, Texas radio station poster promoting KOKE-FM.
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Souvenir t-shirt from Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic, 1975.
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Townes Van Zandt owned this poncho with "…and Lefty" appliqued to the front. Van Zandt wrote and recorded the #1 country hit "Pancho and Lefty."
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Army Captain and Airborne Ranger Kris Kristofferson's military jacket. Kristofferson resigned his commission in 1965 and moved to Nashville to become a professional songwriter.
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Waylon Jennings's signature black cowboy hat.
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Waylon Jennings's folio containing handwritten lyrics.
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Willie Nelson performing live in Texas.
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Willie Nelson recording in a Nashville studio.
Biographies
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Billy Joe Shaver
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Guy Clark
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Jack Clement
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Tompall Glaser
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Tom Hall
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Jessi Colter
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Marcia Ball
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Marshall Chapman
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Susanna Clark
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Bobby Bare
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Waylon Jennings
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Willie Nelson
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Kris Kristofferson
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Shel Silverstein
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Doug Sahm
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Townes Van Zandt
Lyric Sheets
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Me and Paul
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Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
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The Pilgrim, Chapter 33
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