Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
"Streissguth goes widescreen with this look at the social and musical ferment that produced the Seventies outlaw-country movement--a transformational break from the past that brought the post-hippie singer-songwriter ethos to superstraight Music Row.  He skillfully portrays Sixties Nashville's studio politics and their gradual loosening up, alongside a city where post-Sixties social change took its time arriving."--Rolling Stone"Offers a look at the how the 'outlaw' music of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson shook up Nashville in the late '60s and '70s. . . .  Author Streissguth has country music bona fides: He also wroteJohnny Cash: The Biography."--USA Today"A riveting look at how how three Texans joined forces to liberate Nashville from its company-town ways in the 1970s. It is a small group portrait, tightly focused and well told by Michael Streissguth."--The Wall Street Journal"Outlawis an entertaining, authoritative account of Nashville's rebel years."--popmatters.com"In this compulsively readable book, music historian Streissguth describes the contrast between the staid Nashville music scene of the late '60s and early '70s, and the dynamic new music filtering into the city from Los Angeles (Emmylou Harris), Texas (Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Waylon Jennings), and South Carolina (Marshall Chapman)."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)Riveting (Wall Street Journal)“A biting, in-depth chronicle of Nashville’s most tumultuous era told through the voices of iconic artists who used their music to accomplish significant changes in the music industry.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))Offers a look at the how the ‘outlaw’ music of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson shook up Nashville in the late ‘60s and ‘70s. . . . Author Streissguth has country music bona fides: He also wrote Johnny Cash: The Biography. (USA Today)A riveting look at how how three Texans joined forces to liberate Nashville from its company-town ways in the 1970s. It is a small group portrait, tightly focused and well told by Michael Streissguth. (Wall Street Journal)Outlawis an entertaining, authoritative account of Nashville’s rebel years. (popmatters.com)“Compulsively readable...” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))Streissguth goes widescreen with this look at the social and musical ferment that produced the Seventies outlaw-country movement… [he] skillfully portrays Sixties Nashville’s studio politics and their gradual loosening up, alongside a city where post-Sixties social change took its time arriving. (Rolling Stone)