Originally Posted by
Tekboy
I am currently reading Outlaw by Michael Streissguth, a fascinating account of how Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson ended up recording in Texas after becoming disenchanted with the music publishing and recording scene in Nashville. Cletus might like this one as well. They paved the way for the movement that happened in Austin, which permanently changed the country music paradigm.
I am a fan of the Austin "indie or progressive country" music scene, and back in my wasted youth, was known to play with some of those guys, but I developed a reputation for being "unreliable". Go figure.