Waylon Jennings News

Most of the albums listed here are greatest hits collections. However, if you were going to start a country album collection Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, George Jones and George Strait surely would be on your list.

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

Forty-two years ago, an obscure B movie called The Road to Nashville packaged some of country's hottest acts--Johnny and June Carter Cash, Waylon Jennings, Marty Robbins, Connie Smith, Hank Snow, Porter Wagoner--in a flimsy framework about a Hollywood talent scout hoping to make a movie about country music.

For about a half-million dollars, you might be able to own one of Buddy Holly's guitars.

I already blogged a little bit about loving the collaborations on Wednesday night's CMA Awards , especially when Jamey Johnson and Kid Rock sang Johnson's "Between Jennings and Jones." They sounded good together.

$12 adv., $15 d.o.s. He's a hero to your heroes - Willie Nelson called him maybe the best songwriter alive today and Bob Dylan name-checked him on his last album - and one of the last living connections to the outlaw country movement.

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.

Carrie Underwood, guitar-playing blonde lady , completes the disintegration of country as a genre with her new album Play On .

Modern-day outlaw: At 33, Randy Houser is older than some established country acts, yet the scruffy singer with a deep Mississippi drawl is up for new artist of the year at next week's Country Music Association Awards.

Late at night, in his bedroom in Yonkers, N.Y., James Voight used to sit up and listen to WWVA out of Wheeling.

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

Because Willis Alan Ramsey has released only one album in 37 years doesn't mean he's a recluse.

As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music.

'Revolution'; Sony Nashville 4 stars out of 4 Miranda Lambert's 'Revolution' unfolds more like a rock album than the mainstream country CD it is.

Scott H. Biram is a self proclaimed dirty one-man band that throws together blues, hillbilly and country with some raucous punk and godless metal to create a gritty sound similar to Waylon Jennings and Tom Waits.

Start: Oct 23, 2009 End: Oct 23, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Price: $8 in advance and $10 at show time.

Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus must need glasses. That's the only reasonable explanation for the silly comment the bassist made to the crowd assembled for his band's show at San Jose's HP Pavilion on Friday night.

Chris Young scores his first number one hit this week with "Gettin' You Home " rising to the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

It wasn't until the last part of Friday night's performance at Bowery Ballroom that Jamey Johnson responded to the audience's shouted requests by stating laconically but unequivocally, "We're gonna stand up here and play whatever the f*** we want to." But it was clear all through the show that this is the hard-country hero's guiding principle.

Thrifty Tunes 10.10.09: Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 10.10.2009 His best known songs were hits for other people.