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Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings: Outlaws offer new kind of country

Wayne Robins, Newsday, 22 January 1978

IF YOU think the Super Bowl was rough on the Denver Broncos, you should have seen Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson the next afternoon. The two Texas-born singers had attended the game in New Orleans, and performed at the Dallas Cowboys' victory party that night. A few hours after the party ended, the sleepless duo was being interviewed in the Plaza Hotel in New York.

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