
Outlaw
Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville
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John Pruden
Waylon Jennings. Willie Nelson. Kris Kristofferson. Three renegade musicians. Three unexpected stars. Three men who changed Nashville and country music forever.
By 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.
Surrounded 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 communicated a stark rawness and honesty that would influence artists of all genres for decades to come.
Studded 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.
©2013 Michael Streissguth (P)2013 HarperCollinsPublishersListeners also enjoyed...




















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Excellent compilation of history & stories
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Basic over view with zero insights for as much as I could stand it. Kinda cobbled together from anecdotal stories.
Needed a Sam Elliot or Waylon type narrator as well. Johns not bad but too straight sounding for an outlaw story
Superficial At Best
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Waylon's character is put under scrutiny here more than in his own biographical material, allowing me the opportunity to get to know the man better. Willy and Kris sure do get a large portion of the story, and theirs is as revealling and insightfull as any other artists biography out there.
This book skillfully tells the tale of multiple artists simultaneously, weaving in and out through their lives and around those people who supported them and witnessed the moments we all wish we could have seen. This book is a portal into the 70s and the nitty gritty details of what being a outlaw artist was like through the eyes of the most prominent 3; Waylon, Willy, and Kris.
Captivating from start to finish.
Highly recommend.
Thanks to the author for telling this story!
Revealing little-known Details does Captivate!
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Really disappointed
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