Outlaw: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and the Renegades of Nashville serves as a great in-depth overview of the heyday of the Outlaw Country Music Movement that fueled Nashville, TN. and Austin, TX in the 1970s. The book surveys the careers of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson while also mentioning the likes of Johnny Cash, Townes Van Zandt, and Guy Clark. The book proves that Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson truly changed the Country Music scene in the 1970s. Outlaw shows just how the three singer-songwriters didn't quite fit in, and how they saved country music from itself (at least for a time). ( )

Waylon, Willie, Kris, and The Renegades of Nashville was a well written and researched book. Recommended for anyone interested in "The Outlaw Movement" or fans of Country music in general. ( )

Not a bad overview of "The Outlaw Movement", put together by a competent writer drawing on other articles and books, plus second hand accounts to produce one of his own. ( )

‘Way before the Highwayman road along the coach roads, before Jesus was a Capricorn and before Whiskey River - Nashville was a pretty boring place. All the producers were white, Baptist and walked the line. Things were on a straight, repetitive road. Until…..

In Outlaws Michael Streissguth takes us back to the early 1960s when a Rhodes scholar (Kris), a Texas DJ (Waylon) and a Methodist cotton picker (Willie) had a bit of an epiphany. Different places, different times but still the epiphany came. Why could they not produce their own music? Well, because “that’s not the way we do things.”

Through many bottles of pills and alcohol, through many joints and road trips somehow these men were able to accomplish their mission. Told by people who lived these years: Rodney Crowell, Ronny Light, Roseanne Cash and others this is just an entertaining look at history being rewritten and how some of our favorite names in country music became music heroes (not saints, for sure!).

Any historian of Nashville, country music or the above named stars will enjoy this book. I’d give it 5 stars! ( )