Waylon News

I knew I was going to like Josh Thompson about 10 seconds into "Beer on the Table," with a rowdy litany of things you can do with your paycheck .

Neither of us needs anymore stuff for gifts anymore, so instead, we give each other events for special occasions.

The day after Thanksgiving is typically the day when smart shoppers start their holiday shopping.

If any one performer personified the outlaw country movement of the '70s, it was Waylon Jennings.

In a statement, Jennings said working with Hierophant on the album--which is set for a March 2 release--rather than with his longtime backing band, the .357's, has allowed him to take his sound, words and images wherever he wants, without genre restrictions.

Jake Owen is up for Best New Artist at the CMA Awards this Wednesday, and he'll be sporting a new good luck charm on his arm -- a tattoo of Waylon Jennings' eagle logo.

Getting back to the basics of love , I put together this Waylon Jennings playlist, gathering the highlights from a few of my CD collections.

Jamey Johnson was drawling his way through a rueful country waltz at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday night, and his audience, small but boisterous, just kept up the din.

Waylon Jennings is the recognized father of the Outlaw movement of country, a rebel against the Nashville establishment whose recordings blended honky- tonk, rock 'n' roll and folk in a way virtually nobody else was doing at the time.

Laurens group Outshyne received Best Country Group honors at the second annual Carolina Music Awards on Aug.

You can't get through a conversation with Jesse Dayton without hearing a reference to Texas at least once.

COOPERSTOWN _ Jeff Katz, the deputy mayor of Cooperstown, loves music and writing and combines them in ``Maybe Baby ,'' a new blog for rock 'n' roll lovers.

The only son of country legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter, Shooter Jennings literally spent his childhood on a tour bus.

U.S. country singer-songwriter Waylon "Shooter" Jennings has confirmed his longtime girlfriend, actress Drea de Matteo , accepted his marriage proposal.

The men and the song in this video don't need any introduction, but one thing I wonder, having never seen this particular clip in a higher-fidelity format: Is Waylon Jennings using a chorus pedal on his guitar? Now, it sounds like it, but it could be a couple of other things.

TELLING TRUE STORIES Berndt and the Preachers. No, there will not be country-fried rockabilly renditions of Kilgore Smudge tunes at the Blackstone when ex-Kilgore frontman Jay Berndt resurrects the Revival Preachers in what will be only their second show since 2005 .

It's easy to get country-rock singer Shooter Jennings riled up - just talk his place on about country radio.

A slight disruption to the schedule this week postponed Saturday Morning Country by 24 hours.