Waylon
An Autobiography

I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through, I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do, I can't say I'm proud of all of the things that I've done, But I can say I've never intentionally hurt anyone. I've always been different with one foot over the line Winding up somewh......more

Even though for years I was more into rock and jazz (though I've made many excursions into classic country, bluegrass, and alt-country), I've always listed Waylon Jennings "Dreamin' My Dreams" as one of my all-time favorite discs and probably one of the best-produced discs of all time. I stand by th......more

When I was looking at reading this book I read somewhere that someone said this book was almost like sitting down with Waylon and having him tell his life story over a few beers. That actually fits quite well. Waylon was one of the first to really break the conventenial country music barriers mainly......more

It’s pretty much all here. Dirt poor in Texas. Guilt over his friend Buddy Holly’s death. Writing songs that Nashville didn’t want. Singing them the way Nashville didn’t want. Girls and wives. Life as a prisoner of the road. Willie Nelson’s Independence Day picnics at Dripping Springs. Outlaw countr......more

Waylon Jennings (1937 – 2002) was at his best when he was Lonesome, On’ry, And Mean. Which was a song he recorded in 1974, about the time I first heard him and his band. It was sometime in the early Seventies. I was a bartender at the Warehouse, a night club in Denver, Colorado, where he performed. W......more