Outlaw - by Michael Streissguth (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>Outlaw by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.<P>Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels found themselves in Music City writing songs and vying for record deals. Channeling the unrest of the times, all three Country Music Hall of Famers resisted the music industry s unwritten rules and emerged as leaders of the outlaw movement that ultimately changed the recording industry.<P>Outlaw offers a broad portrait of the outlaw movement in Nashville that includes a diverse secondary cast of characters, such as Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, and Billy Joe Shaver, among others.<P>With archival photographs throughout, Outlaw is a comprehensive examination of a fascinating shift in country music, and the three unbelievably talented musicians who forged the way."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><em>Outlaw</em> by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.</p><p>Streissguth delves into the country music scene in the late '60s and early '70s, when these rebels found themselves in Music City writing songs and vying for record deals. Channeling the unrest of the times, all three Country Music Hall of Famers resisted the music industry's unwritten rules and emerged as leaders of the outlaw movement that ultimately changed the recording industry.</p><p><em>Outlaw</em> offers a broad portrait of the outlaw movement in Nashville that includes a diverse secondary cast of characters, such as Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, and Billy Joe Shaver, among others.</p><p>With archival photographs throughout, <em>Outlaw</em> is a comprehensive examination of a fascinating shift in country music, and the three unbelievably talented musicians who forged the way.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>The definitive story of how three country music legends--Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson--changed music in Nashville</p><p>By the late 1960s, young people from all over the country were streaming into Nashville, Tennessee. The city was the center of the booming country music industry and home to what was known as the Nashville Sound, characterized by slick production and an increasingly overused formula.</p><p>But three trailblazing artists would soon rock the foundations of Nashville's music business. Tapping into the burgeoning underground scene and the traditions of civil rights leaders and antiwar protestors, Waylon, Willie, and Kris resisted Nashville's music-making machine and forged their own paths, creating music that was more personal, not easily categorized, and in the vein of rock acts of the time.</p><p>Drawing on extensive research and probing interviews with Kris Kristofferson, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Cowboy Jack Clement, and others, Michael Streissguth brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. <em>Outlaw</em> is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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."--<em>Kirkus Reviews </em><strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>"Compulsively readable..."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em> <strong>(starred review)</strong><br><br>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.--<em>Wall Street Journal</em><br><br>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.--<em>USA Today</em><br><br>Riveting--<em>Wall Street Journal</em><br><br><i>Outlaw</i> is an entertaining, authoritative account of Nashville's rebel years.--popmatters.com<br><br>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<br>
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