Waylon Jennings 4 Classic Albums on 2 CDs (2-CD)

1.     Singer Of Sad Songs
2.     The Taker / Tulsa
3.     Good Hearted Woman
4.     Ladies Love Outlaws

•      In his 37-year career, Waylon achieved 100 country chart singles and 60 chart albums.

•     Along with Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser, he led the "outlaw" music movement in the mid-1970s.
  
  
•     Waylon came from a dirt farm on the outskirts of Littlefield, a small town on the Texas side of Highway US-84, which ran from Lubbock across the state to Clovis, New Mexico, two major music towns.

•     He was born Wayland Arnold Jennings on June 15, 1937, but due to an error by a Baptist preacher, his name was registered as Waylon.

•     Waylon played bass guitar for Buddy Holly on the ill-fated 1959 "Winter Dance Party" tour, and on February 3, 1959, he famously gave The Big Bopper his seat on the private plane Holly had rented. The plane crashed that night, killing both Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper.

•     Waylon Jennings was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

•     He died of diabetes on February 13, 2002.

•     These 4 albums on 2 CDs were recorded between 1970 and 1972 and are now available for the first time in this format

Waylon Jennings

The Jennings family was like many in West Texas, subsistence farmers and odd jobbers. His folks, William Albert Jennings and Lorene Beatrice Shipley, had married in 1935, and he was the oldest child, born June l5, 1937. Littlefield was a town built around the cotton fields, carved up from a three million acre ranch that had been under the aegis of Major George Washington Littlefield at the turn of the twentieth century. The seat of Lamb County, it was bisected by the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad, and it was as typical a small town Texas life as could be, working in his Daddy's produce store, chasing girls through the town square, watching the cowboy pictures at the Palace Theatre.

There was music in the family - his Daddy loved to sing like Bill Monroe and pluck his guitar thumb-and-finger style, while his Momma showed him how to form his first chords - and more crackling over the radio: the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride and Stan's Record Rack and, one morning in the fall of 1954, the echoings of a countryish singer who sounded like no other country singer before: Elvis Presley, reprising Arthur Crudup's That's Alright, Mama and Bill Monroe's Blue Moon Of Kentucky.

Waylon himself leaned toward Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb, and soon enough was trying to emulate his idols by appearing at the weekly Palace Theatre talent shows. Finding he wasn't much good at most of the available menial labors in town, he found a job at the Voice of Lamb County, KVOW, as a disc jockey, playing a variety of music from Mantovani to country to the classics. Slowly his circle of performing expanded, and he was able to watch the rise of rock and roll first-hand when a local boy from Lubbock, Buddy Holly, had a hit record called
The Jennings family was like many in West Texas, subsistence farmers and odd jobbers. His folks, William Albert Jennings and Lorene Beatrice Shipley, had married in 1935, and he was the oldest child, born June l5, 1937. Littlefield was a town built around the cotton fields, carved up from a three million acre ranch that had been under the aegis of Major George Washington Littlefield at the turn of the twentieth century. The seat of Lamb County, it was bisected by the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad, and it was as typical a small town Texas life as could be, working in his Daddy's produce store, chasing girls through the town square, watching the cowboy pictures at the Palace Theatre.

There was music in the family - his Daddy loved to sing like Bill Monroe and pluck his guitar thumb-and-finger style, while his Momma showed him how to form his first chords - and more crackling over the radio: the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride and Stan's Record Rack and, one morning in the fall of 1954, the echoings of a countryish singer who sounded like no other country singer before: Elvis Presley, reprising Arthur Crudup's That's Alright, Mama and Bill Monroe's Blue Moon Of Kentucky.

Waylon himself leaned toward Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb, and soon enough was trying to emulate his idols by appearing at the weekly Palace Theatre talent shows. Finding he wasn't much good at most of the available menial labors in town, he found a job at the Voice of Lamb County, KVOW, as a disc jockey, playing a variety of music from Mantovani to country to the classics. Slowly his circle of performing expanded, and he was able to watch the rise of rock and roll first-hand when a local boy from Lubbock, Buddy Holly, had a hit record called That'll Be The Day.
Excerpt from the book BCD 16320 - Waylon Jennings - The Journey: Destiny's Child - Read more at: https://www.bear-family.com/jennings-waylon-the-journey-destiny-s-child-6-cd.html
https://www.bear-family.com/jennings-waylon/
Copyright © Bear Family Records

Auszug aus dem Buch BCD 16320 - Waylon Jennings - The Journey: Destiny's Child - Lesen Sie mehr unter: https://www.bear-family.com/jennings-waylon-the-journey-destiny-s-child-6-cd.html
https://www.bear-family.com/jennings-waylon/
Copyright © Bear Family Records