Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jenningswas an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at 12 on KVOW radio. His first band was The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, and KLLL. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, of "Jole Blon" and "When Sin Stops". Holly hired him to play bass. In Clear Lake, Iowa, Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth15 June 1937
CityLittlefield, TX
CountryUnited States of America
Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.
If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I'd save on shoes alone.
I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.
When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.