 I don’t think I’d have done better if I’d been down there in the Gulf still.And certainly, the rest of my life was an exciting thing.” By 1975, the outlaw country movement exploded with the release of Willie Nelson’s "Red Headed Stranger", as well as with a string of successful LPs by Waylon Jennings, including the seminal album "Honky Tonk Heroes".Although Kristofferson helped as much as any artist to sow the seeds of this new genre, which offered deeper, realistic lyrics rooted in pure country with a rock and roll attitude, "Who’s to Bless and Who’s to Blame" continued his commercial decline that had started with 1974’s "Spooky Lady Sideshow".