{"product_id":"outlaw-waylon-willie-kris-and-the-renegades-of-nashville-isbn-9780062038180","title":"Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOutlaw\u003c\/em\u003e by acclaimed author Michael Streissguth follows the stories of three legends as they redefined country music: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreissguth 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOutlaw\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith archival photographs throughout, \u003cem\u003eOutlaw\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive examination of a fascinating shift in country music, and the three unbelievably talented musicians who forged the way.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWaylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1960s, Nashville, Tennessee, was firmly established as the center of the booming country music industry and home to what was known as the Nashville Sound, characterized by slick production and adherence to an increasingly overused formula. But the city was changing. Young people from all over the country were streaming into the bohemian West End and colliding with three trailblazing artists who would soon rock the foundations of Nashville's music business.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrounded by the street vibes of the West End's burgeoning underground scene and the outlaw protest tradition of Nashville's unlikely civil rights leaders and antiwar protestors, Waylon, Willie, and Kris began resisting the unspoken rules of Nashville's music-making machine and instead forged their own creative paths. Their music, personal and not easily categorized, was more in the vein of rock acts like the Allman Brothers and Bob Dylan, and it communi-cated a stark rawness and honesty that would influence artists of all genres for decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudded with a diverse secondary cast including Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Kinky Friedman, Billy Joe Shaver, and others, Streissguth's new book brings to life an incredible chapter in musical history and reveals for the first time a surprising outlaw zeitgeist in Nashville. Based on extensive research and probing interviews with key players, what emerges is a fascinating glimpse into three of the most legendary artists of our times and the definitive story of how they changed music in Nashville and everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eOffers 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. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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). - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compulsively readable...” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreissguth 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. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A unique and significant book… paints a poignant picture of Nashville’s Music Row in the 60s and 70s when it was inhabited by songwriters, strange characters, heroes (sung and unsung), and talented, troubled deathbound passengers of life full of words and music which taken together sometimes make dreams.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKinky Friedman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Think what you want about Nashville. Back in the 1960s, a seismic shift was taking place, beyond the purview of the Music Row mainstream, led by three singer-songwriters who didn’t quite fit in. Michael Streissguth lifts up the rug and shows how the outsiders became the ultimate insiders, and saved country music from itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life and The Dallas Cowboys: The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The outlaw scene was a cultural upheaval in a company town, spurred largely by outsiders--in its way, not unlike punk. Full of period color and surprising details (who knew “Me \u0026amp; Bobby McGee” was inspired by Fellini’s La Strada?), Streissguth tells a vivid, timely history that, in the best country music, continues to repeat itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWill Hermes, author of Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York City That Changed Music Forever\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRiveting - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of two Johnny Cash books, Michael 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. Streissguth shores his story up by cramming it with loving details—like when he lets on that Kris Kristofferson’s “Me and Bobby McGee” was inspired by Fellini’s \u003ci\u003eLa Strada. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutlaw\u003c\/i\u003e is an entertaining, authoritative account of Nashville’s rebel years. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003epopmatters.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Streissguth makes a compelling, intelligent, and elegant case for an outlaw zeitgeist, and he draws the main characters--Willie, Waylon, Kris and ‘the boys’ (and a few girls)--with depth and truth. If God is in the Details, Art is in the Specifics, and Streissguth has created a beautiful document of the uniquely specific.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e–Rosanne Cash\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dey Street Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889186042085,"sku":"NP9780062038180","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062038180.jpg?v=1730230706","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/outlaw-waylon-willie-kris-and-the-renegades-of-nashville-isbn-9780062038180","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}