A professional musician since the 1950s, Waylon Jennings is known for his contribution to the country and western "Outlaw Movement" of the 1970s. Along with Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Kris Kristofferson, Tompall Glaser, and wife...

Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15 1937 – February 13 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The...

WAYLON JENNINGS was always his own man. In the early 1970s, at a time when the majority of country acts were little more than pawns in the hands of producers and record company executives, he and his friend Willie Nelson wrested control from the...

WAYLON An Autobiography By Waylon Jennings with Lenny Kaye Warner. 418 pp. $23 Waylon Jennings never graduated from high school -- he got his GED at the age of 52 -- but he has somehow managed to write as good a book...

Singer Henson Cargill, whose 1968 hit "Skip a Rope" topped the country charts with its understated take on social problems, has died. He was 66.Cargill died Saturday following complications from surgery, Matthews Funeral Home in Edmond confirmed."Skip a Rope" made it to No. 1 on...

Willie Nelson can add another award to his long list of accolades.Broadcast Music Inc. announced Thursday that it will bestow upon Nelson its icon designation during its 55th annual Country Awards Nov. 6 in Nashville.BMI gives the honor to songwriters and artists who have had...

Lumping Jennings with, say, David Allen Coe or Asleep at the Wheel or Michael Murphey or any of the other ["redneck rock" or "progressive country"] "movement" entities is a mistake in the first place, as the whole idea with Jennings is going it alone. The way he, specifically, has elected to sound does not extend The Way Things Are Going (the old definition of "progress") but goes against it. (p. 104) [The] pose Jennings strikes is symbolic, a truth-in...

Waylon Jennings has found himself to be something of a star, not merely of the country circuits, but of the entire ball-game of popular music. He is more equipped for this than anyone else who has set out from Nashville….

Funny how time slips away. It has been more than a dozen years now since a group of country boys, led by Elvis Presley, got together in some Tennessee recording studios and started a revolution in American music. With the help of such songs as "Blue Suede Shoes," "Bye, Bye Love" and "Heartbreak Hotel," they came up with a country-rock sound that helped reshape pop music. Since that golden age of country-rock, hundreds of acts have been influenced by that early sound...