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On the Charts 49 Years Ago Today, Waylon Jennings Entered His Sixth Week at No. 1 With This Willie Nelson Feature

Waylon Jennings performs onstage at Oakbrook Terrace in Oakbrook, Illinois, November 27, 1977. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) Waylon Jennings' biggest crossover hit entered it...

On This Day in 1977, Waylon Jennings Was at No. 1 With an Album That Proved He Could Turn Pop Hits Into Country Gold

Forty-nine...

On The Charts 47 Years Ago, Waylon Jennings Ruled With a Somber Ballad Written as an Apology to Bob McDill’s Wife

American country and western singer and guitarist Waylon Jennings (1937 - 2002) wears a cowboy hat and leather vest as he sings with his eyes closed in front of a microphone, April...

49 Years Ago Today, Waylon Jennings Kicked off a Six-Week Run at No. 1 With One of His Biggest Hits (That He Despised)

Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, Texas" reached the top of the country music ch...

More Than 20 Years After His Death, New Recordings From a Defining Figure of the Outlaw Country Movement Surface

ATLANTA - FEBRUARY 17: Country singer Waylon Jennings performs at Alex Cooley's Capri Ballroom on February 17, 1979 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Tom Hill/WireImage) Waylon Jennin...

The Top 20 Waylon Jennings Songs

The 20 best Waylon Jennings songs prove that without Jennings, country music simply wouldn't be what it is today. Continue reading…

“The Only One Who Had The Balls To Do It” — Paul Simon Told Waylon Jennings That All The Other Artists Wanted To Walk Ou...

Waylon Jennings famously walked out of the recording of “We Are The World,” and it was relatively common for him to walk out of any sort of professional engagements if he felt like...

The Top 20 Waylon Jennings Songs

The 20 best Waylon Jennings songs prove that without Jennings, country music simply wouldn't be what it is today. Continue reading…

Born 89 Years Ago Today in Texas, One of Outlaw Country’s Founding Fathers

Born June 15, 1937, in Littlefield, Texas, outlaw country legend Waylon Jennings would have turned 89 years old today. The p...

The Top 20 Country Hit That Revealed a Younger Artist’s Sweet Japanese Nickname for Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings earned the nickname "Watasha," based on a Japanese word, by this younger country artist in the late 1970s. The post The Top 20 Country Hit Th...

On This Day in 1976, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings Recorded a Pre-Highwaymen Hit for the Ages

Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings Fifty years ago today, Johnny Cash enlisted Waylon Jennings to record what would be one of his final hit singles. The post On This Day in 1976, Jo...

3 Outlaw Country Songs That Have Stood the Test of Time

Waylon Jennings performs onstage at Oakbrook Terrace in Oakbrook, Illinois, November 27, 1977. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) These are three of the best outlaw country songs...

Waylon Jennings Once Recalled the Pivotal Moment He Heard This Musical Icon for the First Time: “It Went up My Spine”

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1970: Photo of Waylon Jennings Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images When Waylon Jennings heard Elvis Presley for the first time on the way to school, he...

New Waylon Jennings “Diamonds” Song feat. Glen Campbell Released

Oh hell yeah. Waylon Jennings continues to regale us with music from beyond the grave. And it continues to be just as good as the music he released in the heyday of his legendary c...

Shooter Jennings Says Waylon’s Drug Addiction Did Not Affect Him One Bit: “He Was A Great Dad”

He beat his decades-long addiction for his son… and it proved to be the best decision he ever made. It’s no secret that Waylon Jennings knew how to party, as he was very open durin...

Shooter Jennings Is Releasing More Waylon Songs. This One Features Glen Campbell

"Diamonds," with the late "Rhinestone Cowboy" on guitar, is the title track of the latest in a series of posthumous Waylon albums

Shooter Jennings to put out second album of father Waylon’s legacy

Shooter Jennings has announced the release of Diamonds, a new album of previously unheard songs by his father, Waylon Jennings. Physical copies (CDs, LPs, Cassettes) and downloads...

Whey Jennings and Friends at the Troubadour Theatre

NASHVILLE.com was invited to the Nashville Troubadour Theatre for Whey Jennings appearance celebrating the release of Baptized By Fire Sunday night at Nashville’s Texas Troubadour...

3 Country Songs From 1978 That Every Small-Town Kid Still Knows by Heart

New York, N.Y.: Musicians Willie Nelson, left, and Waylon Jennings, right, at a party at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan on January 16, 1978. (Photo by Karen Wiles/Newsday RM via Get...

The Essential Trinity of 1970s Outlaw Country Albums

ATLANTA – OCTOBER 27: Willie Nelson Performs at the Great Southeast Music Hall on October 27, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Tom Hill/WireImage) These three albums were the fo...

Born in Georgia 89 Years Ago Today, the Songwriter Behind Waylon Jennings’ Biggest Hit and Other Country Classics

Eighty-nine years ago today, the songwriter behind...

4 of the Best Outlaw Country Albums From the 1970s and Beyond

Jerry Jeff Walker, who released one of the best outlaw country albums of all time These four albums are among the best outlaw country has to offer from the 1970s and beyond. They n...

Born in Nashville on This Day in 1979, the Only Child of Two Outlaw Icons Who Portrayed His Own Father in a Johnny Cash...

Born in Kentucky on This Day in 1944, the King of Honky Tonk and the Most “Outlaw” Country Singer of the 1970s