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    An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home
    An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home
    An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home
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    An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought Me Home

    Written by Jessi Colter and David Ritz

    Narrated by Devon O'Day

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    Renowned songwriter, singer, and wife of Waylon Jennings writes an intimate, enormously entertaining memoir of American music, of life with Waylon and the Outlaws, and of faith lost and found.

    The daughter of a Pentecostal evangelist and a race-car driver, Jessi Colter played piano and sang in church before leaving Arizona to tour with rock-n-roll pioneer Duane Eddy, whom she married. Colter became a successful recording artist, appearing on American Bandstand and befriending stars such as the Everly Brothers and Chet Atkins, while her songs were recorded by Nancy Sinatra, Dottie West, and others. Her marriage to Eddy didn’t last, however, and in 1969 she married the electrifying Waylon Jennings. Together, they made their home in Nashville, which in the 1970s, was ground zero for roots music, drawing Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Shel Silverstein, and others to the Nashville Sound. And Jessi was at the center of it all, the only woman on the landmark Wanted: The Outlaws album, the record that launched the Outlaw Country genre and was the first country album to go platinum. She also tasted personal commercial success with the #1-single “I’m Not Lisa.”

    But offstage, life was a challenge, as Waylon pursued his addictions and battled his demons. Having drifted from the church as a young woman, Jessi returned to her faith and found in it a source of strength in the turmoil of living with Waylon. In the 1980s, Waylon helped launch the super group The Highwaymen with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, and the hits kept rolling, as did Waylon’s reckless living. Amid it all, Jessi faithfully prayed for her husband until finally, at Thanksgiving 2001, Waylon found Jesus, just months before he died. 

    An Outlaw and a Lady is a powerful story of American music, of love in the midst of heartache, and of faith that sustains.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9780718082994
    Author

    Jessi Colter

    Jessi Colter is one of America’s most beloved singer-songwriters. Her storied career began in the sixties when, encouraged by her first husband, guitar legend Duane Eddy, she composed hit songs for Dottie West, Nancy Sinatra, and Hank Locklin. Best known for her collaboration with her husband, Waylon Jennings, and for her 1975 country-pop crossover hit “I’m Not Lisa,” she was the only woman featured on the landmark album Wanted: The Outlaws that forever changed American music. She has fifteen major-label albums to her credit, and her songs and records have sold in the tens of millions. She lives near Scottsdale, Arizona.  

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    • 4/5
      I thought this book was superb. It was well written and interesting. This lady put up with a lot of cr*p from the outlaw, but she stuck with him through thick and thin. Stand by Your Man, but that was another country western singer. Two thumbs up.