90s Country & Outlaw Country Hats

Fans of 90s country and outlaw country tend to agree on one thing: the music was better with a steel guitar in it. A widely read fan blog put the complaint in a single line, that everybody wants to be 90s country these days but nobody wants to hire a steel guitarist, and fans still define the sound by its fiddle and steel guitar. Outlaw country is the older strand, a small group of iconoclasts in the 1970s and early 1980s, Cash, Willie, Waylon and Kristofferson among them, who won creative freedom outside the Nashville establishment after resisting the slick Nashville Sound of the late 1960s. Meanwhile 90s country keeps finding new listeners, with Spotify numbers showing Gen Z picking it up. These hats are for the listener who sides with both eras. Two badges name the genres plainly. The sentence designs carry the stance: the plea to go back to 90s country, the steel guitar over autotune, the divorce that left nothing but a country song, a tallboy and the sad songs to go with it, and the trio of Willie, Waylon and me. Fans swap stories of wearing a cassette out, and these lines are written for that crowd. MY EX GOT THE HOUSE and WILLIE WAYLON AND ME each get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear one to the honky-tonk or the truck, or give one to the person who still wore the tape out.