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Waylon Jennings

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Waylon Jennings: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 29 October 1983

'Nylon' Jennings Sings Silky Jus' For You ...

Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Asleep At The Wheel: Civic Center, Lansing MI

Live Review by Bill Holdship, Michigan State News, 12 July 1978

Ol' Waylon keeps 'outlaw' tradition ...

Waylon Jennings, 1937-2002

Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 15 February 2002

Rebel who revitalised country music and recorded Nashville's first million-selling album. ...

Gary Stewart: Gary (RCA); The Best of Don Williams, Volume II (MCA); Waylon Jennings: Greatest Hits (RCA)

Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1979

Been down so long, it looks like down to me ...

Best Friend of Mine: Waylon Jennings on Buddy Holly

Retrospective by David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2016

HE MAY BE renowned as a pioneer of outlaw country, but Waylon Jennings had a rock'n'roll past long before he caused apoplexy among the Nashville ...

Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes

Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, September 1998

FOR WAYLON Jennings – born into a dirt poor cotton-picking West Texas family – the wanderlust began as far back as he could remember. ...

George Jones & Tammy Wynette: The Playroom, Atlanta; Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty: City Auditorium, Atlanta

Live Review by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 10 March 1969

THE LAST two weeks have been good ones for country music in Atlanta. George Jones and Tammy Wynette were at the Playroom; Merle Haggard's latest ...

Waylon Jennings

Interview by Gene Guerrero, The Great Speckled Bird, 21 June 1971

IT WAS ONE of those memorable evenings like accidentally catching Charley Pride's first Nashville appearance at the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, or watching Mel Tillis ...

Hot times in the heart of Texxas

Report by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 24 August 1978

IF ANYTHING was learned from the 105,000 fans who piled into the Cotton Bowl over the Fourth of July weekend for the two-day Texxas World ...

Waylon Jennings: Waylon Live

Review by John Morthland, Creem, April 1977

It wasn't until late 1974 that the Waylon Jennings mystique took hold for me. This is partly because to my mind that's when his sound ...

Waylon Jennings: Honky Tonk Heroes (RCA)

Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 4 May 1974

INTEREST IN country musicians is currently running high with Charlie Rich in the charts and a whole spate of country albums being released as a ...

Waylon Jennings: You Gotta Be A Man First, 'Fore You Can Be Anything...

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 August 1973

Waylon Jennings, the cowboy who finally hit that golden trail. By MICHAEL WATTS in New York ...

Waylon Jennings: Are You Ready For The Country

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 9 October 1976

Waylon breaks thru' Nashville's blanket defense ...

Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings: Waylon & Willie (RCA)

Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, April 1978

'PICK UP The Tempo' again. 'It's Not Supposed To Be That Way' again. Tracking these guys separately or in tandem means a hell of a ...

Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser: Wanted! The Outlaws (RCA)

Review by Nick Tosches, The Village Voice, 26 January 1976

Waylon &c. Pull a Fast One ...

Waylon Jennings: Maybe They Don't Even Know I'm There

Interview by Nick Tosches, Zoo World, 1 August 1974

LOOKING MORE like an Exxon station grease monkey on his lunch break than the Pontifex Maximus of Nashville's Telecaster outlaws, Waylon Jennings sits there washing ...

Waylon Jennings: The Taker/Tulsa (RCA 4487)

Review by Nick Tosches, Fusion, 28 May 1971

EVEN THOUGH this album stinks it wasn't always like that for Mr. Jennings. ...

Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA

Live Review by Stephen K. Peeples, Cash Box, 31 May 1975

WALKING INTO the Civic one could feel an incredible aura of positive anticipation from the audience. They welcomed Jessi Colter (Ms Jennings) with exuberant applause ...

Waylon Jennings: Ramblin' Man

Report and Interview by Stephen K. Peeples, Cash Box, 12 July 1975

MANY ARTISTS project a schizophrenic split between their music and their personal lives; not so with Waylon Jennings. Waylon's personal life is his music and ...

Waylon Jennings' Are You Ready for the Country

Report by Stephen K. Peeples, Picking Up the Tempo, 7 July 1976

The Texas country outlaw's bid for a wider audience with Are You Ready for the Country gets a closer look. ...

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

Interview by 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 ...

Jerry Bradley: This Nashville dynamo doesn't sing a note

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, 13 February 1977

PEOPLE WITH careers in the record world refer to their industry as the music business for one elementary reason. It is a business, with a ...

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