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OBIT: Waylon Jennings, 16 Jun 37 - 13 Feb 02
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Subject: Waylon Jennings From: GUEST,bob schwarer Date: 13 Feb 02 - 06:32 PM The local news people just announced that Waylon died a little bit ago. Another great loss. Saw a few of his shows. Always good. Bob S. |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: 53 Date: 13 Feb 02 - 06:48 PM I haven't heard but it is a sad loss to the music industry. |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: Lonesome EJ Date: 13 Feb 02 - 07:04 PM You have to say that he and Willie and Tompall gave the Country Music industry a well-needed kick in the pants in the mid seventies. |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Feb 02 - 07:15 PM aw geez.......Yeah, I liked Waylon a lot. And Leej has it right.........Bad news here tonight......... When I lived in Nashville (Hendersonville), we lived about a dozen houses down the road........Never saw Cash on the road, but you'd see Waylon occasionally. We lived in a house that had a long drive the tour buses would turn in...."Nobody important lives here folks. we're just turning around." I enjoyed his music and his style........especially his style. Not musical style, "human" style. What a bummer....This really sucks............Well, he often said he was living on borrowed time since February 3, 1959 when he was supposed to have been on the plane with Buddy Holly. 43 years and a few days........ I'm glad we got the benefit of that extra time. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Feb 02 - 07:20 PM Found this...Pretty decent obit: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ Waylon Jennings, who defined the outlaw movement in country music, died Wednesday after a long battle with diabetes-related health problems. He was 64. Jennings spokeswoman Schatzie Hageman said Jennings died peacefully at his home in Arizona. Jennings, a singer, songwriter and guitarist, recorded 60 albums and had 16 No. 1 country singles in a career that spanned five decades and began when he played bass for Buddy Holly. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October. He had been plagued with diabetes-related health problems in recent years that made it difficult for him to walk. In December, his left foot was amputated at a Phoenix hospital. Jennings and his wife, singer Jessi Colter, sold their home in Nashville more than a year ago and moved to Chandler, Ariz. In 1959, his career was nearly cut short by tragedy soon after it began. He was scheduled to fly on the light plane that crashed and killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson. Jennings gave up his seat on the plane to the Richardson, who was ill and wanted to fly rather than travel by bus with those left behind. With pal Willie Nelson, Jennings performed duets like "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," "Luckenbach" and "Good Hearted Woman." Those 1970s songs nurtured a progressive sound and restless spirit embraced later by Travis Tritt, Charlie Daniels, Steve Earle and others. His resonant, authoritative voice also was used to narrate the popular TV show "The Dukes of Hazzard." He sang its theme song, which was a million seller. "I aimed the narration at children and it made it work," he said in a 1987 AP interview. He traditionally wore a black cowboy hat and ebony attire that accented his black beard and mustache. Often reclusive when not on stage, he played earthy music with a spirited, hard edge. Combined, Jennings had a well-defined image that matched well with his history of battling record producers to do music his way. About his independence, he said: "There's always one more way to do something _ your way." Some of his album titles nourished his brash persona: "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean," "I've Always Been Crazy," "Nashville Rebel," "Ladies Love Outlaws" and "Wanted: The Outlaws." He often refused to attend music awards shows on grounds performers should not compete against each other. Despite those sentiments, Jennings won two Grammy awards and four Country Music Association awards. He did not attend his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame last year. For about 10 years, he declined to appear on the Grand Ole Opry because a full set of drums was forbidden at the time. That rule was eventually dropped. In 1992, he told the AP: "I've never compromised, and people respect that." Of his outlaw image, he said: "It was a good marketing tool. In a way, I am that way. You start messing with my music, I get mean. As long was you are honest and up front with me, I will be the same with you. But I still do things my way." Born in Littlefield, Texas, Jennings became a radio disc jockey at 14 and formed his own band not long afte rward. He and Holly were teen-age friends in Lubbock, Texas, and Jennings was in Holly's band. "Mainly what I learned from Buddy was an attitude," Jennings said. "He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it." By the early 1960s Jennings was playing regularly at a nightclub in Phoenix. In 1963, he was signed by Herb Alpert's A&M Records, then was signed by RCA in Nashville shortly thereafter by Chet Atkins. Once in Nashville, he and Cash became friends and roommates. His hit records began in the mid-1960s and his heyday was the mid-1970s. His "Greatest Hits" album in 1979 sold 4 million _ a rare accomplishment in country music for that era. In the mid-1980s, he joined with Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson to form the quartet the Highwaymen, which recorded together and did concert tours. "I'd like to be remembered for my music _ not necessarily by what people see when they see us _ but what they feel when they talk about you," he said in 1984. "Some people have their music. My music has me." His other hit singles included "I'm a Ramblin' Man," "Amanda," "Lucille," "I've Always Been Crazy" and "Rose in Paradise." He made occasional forays into TV movies, including "Stagecoach" and "Oklahoma City Dolls," plus the Sesame Street movie "Follow That Bird" and the B-movie "Nashville Rebel." He has said he spent 21 years on drugs and had a $1,500-a-day cocaine habit. "I did more drugs than anybody you ever saw in your life," he told the Country Music Association's Close Up magazine in 1994. In 1977, he was arrested at a Nashville recording studio and charged with conspiracy and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The charges were later dismissed. He kicked the habit in 1984 by leasing a house in Arizona and going cold turkey, he said. He and Colter, his fourth wife, married in 1969. They had one son, Shooter. Christ I am really bummed............ Spaw |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Feb 02 - 07:38 PM Aw, CRAP!~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: 53 Date: 13 Feb 02 - 07:40 PM He was also the narrator for the dukes of hazard. |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: Midchuck Date: 13 Feb 02 - 07:43 PM Glad we named the kittens after him and Willie...some kind of continuity.... Peter. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: khandu Date: 13 Feb 02 - 08:04 PM "Singer of Sad Songs, I need your services today." Farewell, Waylon. I am gonna miss you. khandu |
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Subject: RE: Waylon Jennings From: DougR Date: 13 Feb 02 - 08:07 PM I knew Waylon when he was performing at the night club in Phoenix, which was owned by a friend of mine. My wife and I would go to the club to listen to him and his band. He would come to our table on breaks and visit with us. This was before he was a star, of course, but it was fairly easy to predict that he would be one given the opportunity. A little known story is that Jerry Purcell, Eddy Arnold's manager had a hand in Waylon going to Nashville. Eddy appeared with the Phoenix Symphony and I told Jerry he should go out out to J.B's and listen to Waylon. He did, told Chet Atkins about him, and shortly thereafter Waylon left Phoenix for Nashville. He was a real gentleman when I knew him, and I'm really sorry country music, and all his fans have lost him. One of his first recordings, a 45 RPM, made at Audio Recorders here in Phoenix was "Four Strong Winds." There is a trumpet part on the end of the song that was performed by Herb Alpert. I wish I still had that old 45 record, though I would have nothing to play it on. DougR |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: GUEST,Whistle and Bagpipes Date: 13 Feb 02 - 08:51 PM Actually in the obit they got at least 1 thing wrong. He was not teenage friends with Buddy Holly. Holly had only met him after he was star and Waylon was working at a local radio station and only played professionally with Buddy on his last tour (he had to learn to play bass for the tour and was taught by Holly). |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: GUEST,Big Mick Date: 13 Feb 02 - 09:00 PM Seems so damned ironic that I am enjoying one of the great musical experiences of my life, only to have it colored by this very sad news. We must now start to listen for his voice in others. It will be heard. Mick |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Steve Latimer Date: 13 Feb 02 - 09:15 PM Man, I'm sorry to hear this. I really liked Waylon. He sure wrote some beauts. I've always been crazy, but it's kept me from going insane. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: katlaughing Date: 13 Feb 02 - 09:32 PM Oh, man, I hate this! I met my Rog when we both worked at a C&W radio station in the early 80's where we heard a LOT of Waylon and Willie and the boys. He's always had a special place in my heart. Why do all the good ones have to die....RIP, darlin' kat |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Feb 02 - 09:40 PM One he co-wrote with Willie which won them a few awards and always had appeal to me....more after I met Karen. GOOD HEARTED WOMAN A long time forgotten the dreams that just fell by the way The good life he promised ain't what she's living today But she never complains of bad times and the bad things he's done She just talks about the good times they've had And all the good times to come She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man She loves him in spite of his wicked ways she don't understand Through teardrops and laughter They'll pass through this world hand in hand A good hearted woman lovin' a good timin' man He likes the bright lights the night life And good timin' friends And when the party's all over she'll welcome him back home again Lord knows she don't understand him but she does the very best that she can She's a good hearted woman lovin' her good timin' man She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man She loves him in spite of his wicked ways she don't understand Through teardrops and laughter They'll pass through this world hand in hand A good hearted woman lovin' a good timin' man She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man She loves him in spite of his wicked ways she don't understand Through teardrops and laughter They'll pass through this world hand in hand A good hearted woman lovin' a good timin' man Spaw |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Rustic Rebel Date: 13 Feb 02 - 11:08 PM I'm so sad to hear about Waylon. Since I heard the news I keep singing "It's been a long time leavin' it'll be a long time gone. Hello highline, hello hyway, here come a big ol' semi, my way. Pick up my thumb, hear the truck come, trees going by, And then it really bugs me but I can't remember the next line, then, open up my fly on my Levi's. Whoop! whoop! Well I'll lift my glass to Waylon and say "Happy Trails" Rustic |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Charcloth Date: 13 Feb 02 - 11:16 PM Bummer |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: catspaw49 Date: 13 Feb 02 - 11:16 PM Yeah....the Roger Miller song......... I've Been a Long Time Leavin' I've been a fool, I've been a foo-ooo-ooool Forgivin' you each time you done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone Loved you so much, loved you so mu-u-huuuch I stayed around when I should've moved along I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone I say hi there high line, hello highway Here come a big old semi my way I stick up my thumb, hear the truck come But the truck goes by and he looks like he's flyin' And he whoops the big legs on my Levi's They go woop woop woop woop woop I've been a fool, I've been a foo-oo-ooool Forgivin' you each time that you've done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone I say hi there high line, hello highway Here come a big old semi my way I stick up my thumb, hear the truck come But the truck goes by and he looks like he's flyin' And he's whoopin' the big legs on my Levi's Woop woop woop woop woop woop woop woop I've been a fool, I've been a foo-oo-ooool Forgivin' you each time that you've done me wrong I've been a long time leavin' ya, but I'll be a long time gone gone gone gone gone gone gone Spaw |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Stilly River Sage Date: 13 Feb 02 - 11:40 PM
The late Chet Atkins used to appear regularly on A Prairie Home Companion, but didn't Waylon also occasionally visit the show? SRS |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Mark Clark Date: 13 Feb 02 - 11:57 PM Thanks, Spaw, for the obit and the tunes. Damn that's bad news. - Mark |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Cappuccino Date: 14 Feb 02 - 02:31 AM Saw him once over here in London in the late 1980s - great show. One of my favourite albums is a collection of his very early recordings - Sally Was A Good Ol' Girl, and so on. Still play it regularly - think I'll look it out and play it while I work this morning. - Ian B |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Sir Roger de Beverley Date: 14 Feb 02 - 06:32 AM As well as all of the Buddy Holly connections mentioned already Buddy also played on, produced and paid for Waylon's first ever recording - a version of Jole Blon. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Mrrzy Date: 14 Feb 02 - 09:11 AM Very sad news - a true American troubadour. The Washington Post also has a nice obit. I hadn't known that Waylon and someone gave their seats to Valens and The Big Bopper on the plane that crashed The Day The Music Died. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Fortunato Date: 14 Feb 02 - 09:25 AM Faron Young sang: "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young, (and leave a beautiful memory)". (Joe Allison) |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: SDShad Date: 14 Feb 02 - 09:57 AM Dang. Give 'em hell, Wayl'n. Two musical moments from Waylon's prolific body of recorded material stick with me more than any others, where that big, boomy, larger-than-life voice of his did things that send chills down your spine. One was his verse of "The Highwayman." Willie, Johnny, and Kris ain't exactly slouches either in the singin' department (well maybe Kris, but he slouches so well), but when he booms in with "I was a dam-builder" you're hooked. The other moment was his harmonies with Emmylou Harris on her version of "Spanish Johnny." It sounded like him, and yet it didn't, and gives the song an amazing, haunting quality that no other voice could. A great, great loss. Chris |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Rex Date: 14 Feb 02 - 12:01 PM I have fond memories of Waylon and Willie singing "Luckenbach" on the jukebox in my early days. We've lost another great one. Rex |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Wesley S Date: 14 Feb 02 - 12:11 PM Mrrzy - The other guy you mentioned that gave up his seat on Buddy Holly's plane was Tommy Alsup. He owned a club here in Ft Worth called the "Heads Up" club { named because thats how he lost his seat on the plane - the coin fell heads up}. It was only recently that I realized that I had met { briefly } both of the men that didn't get on that plane. Nashville could use a few more Waylons nowadays. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: catspaw49 Date: 14 Feb 02 - 12:18 PM Ain't that the livin' truth! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Steve in Idaho Date: 14 Feb 02 - 12:19 PM I went on Paltalk last night and heard the news there. The only thing I could do was dedicate "Clayton Delaney" to him. Probably the crappiest version I've ever done but I could not get it into/out of my head that he was gone. I never heard him live but when I was playing music during the 70s his songs were a staple for the cowboys we played for. So long Waylon - you will be missed. Steve |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Clinton Hammond Date: 14 Feb 02 - 01:04 PM Drag... |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: wildlone Date: 14 Feb 02 - 03:38 PM I have the album White Mansions on vinyl,tape and cd that get played |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: wildlone Date: 14 Feb 02 - 03:41 PM Gremlins in the machine a lot. Plus a lot of other Waylon Jennings stuff. A great singer. dave |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Brían Date: 14 Feb 02 - 06:28 PM My wife told me today. I am going to miss him. I was listening to him while all my friends were listening to MTV-generated crap. Brían |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: DancingMom Date: 14 Feb 02 - 10:07 PM What a voice! We'll miss him. Sharon |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: 53 Date: 14 Feb 02 - 11:09 PM I just finished watching the CMT special on Waylon, and it was very informative, he was truly a pioneer in the music business, I wish a lot more people had balls like him, then maybe the country music business would not be in the shape it's in today. Ever heard of Jessica Andrews, well she's just another one of Nashvilles' clones, saying if I got the money then you got the time. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: Peter T. Date: 15 Feb 02 - 05:47 PM There's a sad, mad heron out on the town tonight, drowning its sorrows. Be warned. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: catspaw49 Date: 15 Feb 02 - 06:32 PM Yeah PT.........I thought of him...........Hope he drowns his sorrows. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 16 Feb 02 - 12:54 AM Makes me feel "Lonesome, On'ry And Mean." Really enjoyed that album and "Ladies Love Outlaws" back in the mid-seventies before being an "outlaw" became country chic. Enjoyed him ever since. Only one of the "Highwaymen" I never got to see perform in person. Saw Johnny Cash back in '63, Kristofferson in '75 and Willie in '80. I suspect it was the mileage, not the years. No less a loss. Ride on, Waylon... |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: katlaughing Date: 14 Sep 04 - 02:05 PM refresh for MG |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 15 Sep 04 - 02:09 AM I am very sad Waylon is gone. There was a wonderful song he sang about a river----maybe the GREEN RIVER in Kentucky. When I spent summers in Evansville, Indiana we'd go out on the Ohio River, find the mouth of the Greeen, and fish all day about two miles in. Good times. But Waylon acted in the movie about the river I think. Ray Tate who was then the head of the Old Town School Of Folk Music in Chicago had some interest in that film. Well, it wasn't much of a movie. But that song was my favorite thing Waylon ever recorded. Must've been about 1958... Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: OBIT: Waylon Jennings, 16 Jun 37 - 13 Feb 02 From: Teresa Date: 15 Sep 04 - 02:33 AM I really liked his singing in _Civil War Songs_, the companion recording to the series, with the McGarrigles, Richie Havens, et al. T |
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