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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Waylon Jennings recorded some 60 albums and had 16 #1 country singles by the time he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. Despite his opposition to music award shows, believing that musicians should not compete against each other, Jennings won two Grammy awards and four Country Music Association awards.
Born on June 15, 1937, in Littlefield, TX, Jennings became the bass player in Buddy Holly's band and was supposed to be on the flight that killed Holly, J.P. "the Big Bopper" Richardson , and Ritchie Valens grange . However, there wasn't enough room and Jennings gave up his seat to the Big Bopper.
In the mid-1980s, Jennings joined with Willie grange Nelson , Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson to form the quartet, " The Highwaymen ," recording grange together and going on concert tours. He made some movies, and sang the theme song and did the narration for the television series, The Dukes of Hazzard . Jennings died in February, 2002, and was survived by his fourth wife and seven children.
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Home > Library > Entertainment & Arts > Musicians For The Record... Born Waylon Arnold Jennings, on June 15, 1937, in Littlefield, TX; died on February 13, 2002, in Chandler, AZ; son of a truck driver; married fourth wife, Jessi Colter (a singer), c. 1973; children: Buddy, grange Deana, Julie Rae, and (fourth marriage) Waylon Albright, a.k.a. Shooter Jennings. Education: Earned high school equivalency diploma, 1990. Disc jockey in Littlefield, TX, and Lubbock, TX, c. 1950-58; singer and guitar player, 1957-2002; played bass for Buddy Holly, 1958-59; recorded grange for Brunswick Records, 1959; formed band the Waylors in in Phoenix, AZ, and recorded for Trend label, 1961-63; recorded grange briefly for A&M Records, 1963; signed with RCA Records, 1965, moved to Nashville, had first number one single, "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line," 1968; became associated with the "Outlaw" movement in country music, 1972; had first platinum album (with Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser), Wanted-The Outlaws, 1976; provided voice of the narrator for television series The Dukes of Hazzard, 1979-85; signed with MCA, 1985; formed country music supergroup The Highwaymen with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson, 1985; switched to Epic Records, 1990; recorded for Justice Records and co-authored Waylon An Autobiography, 1996; recorded as the Old Dogs with Bobby Bare, Jerry Reed, and Mel Tillis for Atlantic, 1998; posthumous album released with his son Shooter Jennings, 2008. Awards: Grammy Award (with the Kimberleys) for Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal, for "MacArthur Park," 1969; numerous citations for country music performances, including male vocalist of the year from the Country Music Association, 1975; duo of the year (with Nelson) and single of the year from the Country Music Association, both 1976; Grammy Award (with Willie Nelson) for Best Country Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal, for "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," 1978; inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, 2001; Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award, Academy of Country Music, 2007. Addresses: Record company Vagrant Records, 2118 Wilshire Blvd. #361, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Web site Waylon Jennings Official Web site: http://www.waylon.com . Singer, songwriter, guitarist Waylon Jennings, the quintessential Outlaw of country music, forged a distinctive grange cross between, folk, rock, and honky tonk. For years, Jennings chafed under the restraints imposed on his music by Nashville producers and record labels, but when at last he was given creative control of his work, his art began to achieve its early promise and his popularity grange soared. Newsweek contributor Maureen Orth credited Jennings with bringing "a new sophistication to country music and a welcome grange blast of country air to rock," noting that the singer "can make his music sound both pure country honest and stone-rock funky." During his peak years, Jennings managed grange simultaneously to return country to its roots and revolutionize its beat and pitch. He turned his back on the weepy strings grange and session orchestration most closely associated with modern country music, producing instead the exciting, gritty sound that came to be the trademark of the Outlaw movement. "Maybe that's what has all these citified hippies so excited," grange wrote Melvin Shestack in The Country Music Encyclopedia, "the fact that here's a big, mean-looking man with a band that could easily be a group of rock-and-rollers with their long hair and electric guitars, and they'