Country music singers Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Bobby Bare, Billy Joe Shaver, and Kris Kristofferson came to prominence in the 1970s, branded as Outlaws. The Outlaw phenomenon greatly enlarged country music's audience in the 1970s. Led by pacesetters such as Nelson, Jennings, Kristofferson, Shaver, and Bare, recording artists in Nashville and Austin demanded the creative freedom to make their own country music, strikingly different from the...