{"id":2367975,"date":"2026-04-11T00:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2367975"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:38:16","slug":"they-called-us-outlaws-charts-how-texas-artists-heralded-a-new-movement-in-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/they-called-us-outlaws-charts-how-texas-artists-heralded-a-new-movement-in-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Called Us Outlaws\u2019 charts how Texas artists heralded a new movement in country music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What you\u2019re describing is that there was a kind of lightning that so many people wanted to capture in a bottle that happened. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Why in Austin, Texas? I mean, it didn\u2019t happen in Nashville, and yet a lot of these folks were Nashville to the core in a sense, very much a part of the country music scene until it seemed like some of them said, \u201cenough, I want to do something different.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That sort of seems to be a big part of the genesis of where this musical movement sort of spontaneously erupted.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, absolutely. And it was one of those planets-lining-up kind of scenarios. And mentioning Nashville, where you have Kristofferson who\u2019s writing songs in a way that had never been done before, right?<\/p>\n

And it really was kind of part of that underground Chris Gantry, Mickey Newbury\u2026 A lot of Texans.<\/p>\n

Willie Nelson for crying out loud. And he was part of<\/strong>\u00a0establishment, and I think he had sort of had enough. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, he totally had enough, and he wasn\u2019t getting any traction as a singer. A lot of people thought that he was not a good singer, and he actually told us, you know, he said \u201cthat kinda upset me because I thought I was a pretty good singer but nobody else did.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, you know, to your point, there was this underground thing going on in Nashville. Parallel to that, you\u2019ve got this cosmic happening in Austin, Texas \u2014 largely centered around the Armadillo World headquarters and planets just lined up.<\/p>\n

\u00bb RELATED: \u2018Outlaws and Armadillos\u2019 celebrates the independent spirit of \u201970s country<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s name-drop for a moment because you talked with more than a hundred different artists. Not all of them were around back in the \u201970s when this was going down. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Drop some names. Tell me about some of the people who appear in this series.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s 130 artists in this. You know, we had the opportunity to start with Kris Kristofferson and that set the bar.<\/p>\n

But, I mean, everybody from Tom T. Hall to Bobby Bare to I think it\u2019s 16 or 17 Country Music Hall of Fame members and then nine Rock & Roll Hall of Fame members out of all this. So Leon Russell, Billy F. Gibbons, you know. The list is just insane.<\/p>\n

Jessi Colter, of course. I mean she, Jessi, was also executive producer. I was very intentional with with her in developing that relationship which became really, really special \u2014 is really special. She\u2019s like a part of our family. Our daughters, you know, they have a really special friendship with her and she\u2019s been the heartbeat of this project. We wouldn\u2019t be having this conversation if it wasn\u2019t for her.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.texasstandard.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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