Michael Streissguth

Highways and Heartaches is Michael Streissguth 's tenth book. Among the others are the critically acclaimed Johnny Cash: The Biography and Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris and the Renegades of Nashville , which was named one of the top music books of 2013 by Rolling Stone . He has written and directed three documentary films, including the award-winning Nighthawks on the Blue Highway and The Tower Road Bus and served as a program advisor on Ken Burns' PBS documentary series Country Music (2019)....See more

Highways and Heartaches is Michael Streissguth 's tenth book. Among the others are the critically acclaimed Johnny Cash: The Biography and Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris and the Renegades of Nashville , which was named one of the top music books of 2013 by Rolling Stone . He has written and directed three documentary films, including the award-winning Nighthawks on the Blue Highway and The Tower Road Bus and served as a program advisor on Ken Burns' PBS documentary series Country Music (2019). His writing has appeared in the Washington Post Magazine , Irish Times , Mojo , Bluegrass Unlimited , Living Blues , the Journal of Country Music , and other outlets, and he frequently contributes to rollingstone.com. He is a professor in the Department of Communications and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. See less