American Songwriter

On This Day in 1976, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash Recorded an Outlaw Classic at the House of Cash—From the Perspective of a Prison Inmate

Penned by Hal Bynum and Dave Kirby, the track is written and sung from the perspective of a prison inmate. Throughout the song, the inmate in question, who’s writing a letter to his family, shares ...
Whiskey Riff

Waylon Jennings Rightfully Returns To The Country Charts With ‘Songbird,” A Posthumous Record Produced By His Son, Shooter

The voice of Waylon Jennings returned in the form of a full-length album at the beginning of October, which was an album called Songbird, a tracklist full of archival songs that he recently discovered ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1976, Waylon Jennings Released His Second No. 1 Album, ‘Are You Ready for the Country’

The hot streak would continue into the ‘80s. His next six albums after Are You Ready for the Country were top 10 hits. Three of those—Ol’ Waylon, I’ve Always Been Crazy, and Music Man—were No. 1 ...
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On Waylon Jennings' birthday, 9 things to remember about the outlaw

Waylon Jennings would've turned 79 years old on June 15, 2016. There's no much that hasn't been written a thousand times about the country music legend and star of the "outlaw" movement of the 1970s ...