The new memoir by Sam Kindrick, San Antonio’s chronicler of ‘outlaw country,’ is one wild ride

For more than five decades, Sam Kindrick carved a niche as San Antonio’s resident gonzo journalist, documenting the area’s outcasts, dreamers, oddballs, pimps, prostitutes, druggies — and its musicians. As a close friend to legendary performers such as Augie Meyers, Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Leon Russell, David Alan Coe and countless others, Kindrick documented the rise of “outlaw country,” the movement that crossed the paths of shit-kicking rednecks and pot-smoking hippies.