Waylon Jennings
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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: 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. ...
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 ...
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: 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: 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, 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 ...
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, 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' 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 ...
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 ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Rolling Stone, 26 July 1979
Been down so long, it looks like down to me ...
Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, The Crickets: Constitution Hall, Washington DC
Live Review by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 24 April 1980
IN THE world of Waylon Jennings, the law is something to be outside of, barrooms are smoky, bottles empty; women are difficult, or at least ...
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: 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. ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 15 February 2002
Rebel who revitalised country music and recorded Nashville's first million-selling album. ...
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 ...
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