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Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly-Part 6/The End.

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly-Part 6/The End.

"WAS IT SINGING THROUGH MY NOSE THAT GOT ME BUSTED…?" Tuesday evening, August 23, 1977 was just another summer night in Nashville–hot and humid. A few employees were still at the offices at Seventeenth and Edgehill. Waylon was next door at American Studios, helping put some finishing

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly-Part 5

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly-Part 5

THE EAGLE & RUGUS Waylon loved his first custom celebrity touring bus, an Eagle, built in Belgium. Eagles had been the chosen wheels of Continental Trailways, a national bus line that was bought by Greyhound in 1987. As touring musicians began to generate more revenue, the Eagle became their first

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly-Part 4

MADDOG RESHEN Waylon’s New York manager, Neil Reshen, had freed him from the restraints of Nashville's assembly-line recording system. When Waylon felt pressure from RCA, he phoned Reshen, known to industry insiders as "Maddog." Waylon called him "my pitbull on a chain;” said when

Waylon Jennings/ Sex, Drugs & Rockabilly (Part 3)

"THE OUTLAW THING HAS PROBABLY CAUSED ME A PROBLEM OR TWO" When 1976 rolled around, Waylon Jennings was on a roll and a roar. His share of country music's first platinum album, Wanted: The Outlaws, catapulted him into a new world of crossover superstardom. His recent

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly-Part 2

BUDDY'S BASS PLAYER He was born Wayland Arnold Jennings in Littlefield, Texas on June 15, 1937. The name Gaylon came up first, but his dad was William Albert and they wanted to stick with the W.A. initials. By age fourteen, Waylon was already good at singing and

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly- Part One

Waylon Jennings: Sex, Drugs, & Rockabilly- Part One

Sex, Drugs & Rockabilly: A Moment In Time With Waylon Jennings by Bill Conrad THE WEST COAST CONNECTION In January of 1976, I was in Los Angeles, writing as a freelance stringer for Buddy Magazine, out of Dallas and Austin. I was also looking for work that paid real money

Happy 75th Birthday, Waylon Jennings!

June 15th would have been Waylon Jennings’ 75th birthday anniversary and also marks 10 years since he lost his fight with diabetes. He and his late friend, Buddy Holly were born in west Texas nine months and forty miles apart. They were booked to fly together on a small plane