 By 1975, after the explosive success of Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" album, a whole new subgenre of country music had emerged called outlaw country.This new movement featured a more "progressive" sound and a drug culture attuned attitude, typified by the music of Jennings and Nelson but also inspired by songwriters like Kris Kristofferson, Billy Joe Shaver, Mickey Newbury, Lee Clayton, David Allan Coe and Townes Van Zandt.In the wake of "Red Headed Stranger" and the general media attention the outlaw country movement was generating, producer Jerry Bradley at the RCA studios in Nashville was determined to capitalize on the wealth of Jennings and Nelson recordings that RCA had at their disposal