However, after butting heads with the Country Music Association because they asked him to shorten his performance on their televised awards show, he declined the invitation to attend the formal ...

“Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” fit perfectly into the outlaw image that Jennings and Nelson bore, ...

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Waylon Jennings has returned to the Billboard charts with Songbird, a collection of unreleased tracks that have sparked an incredible comeback for the country outlaw, 23 years after his death. Shooter ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Waylon Jennings, whose rebellious songs and brash attitude defined the outlaw movement in country music, died Wednesday after a long battle with diabetes-related health problems.

Last month RCA’s Outlaws, an anthology of cuts by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter, outsold Bob Dylan’s Desire, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Gimme Back My Bullets, and various ...

Twenty years after his death, Jennings’ name is appearing in song lyrics, his voice is present on two previously unreleased tracks about to reach the marketplace, and his rebel ways were one of the ...

Well, on “Outlaw: Celebrating the Music of Waylon Jennings,” a roster of more Americana-inclined stylists and hardcore country traditionalists put their musical minds and souls where their wallets ...

A stalwart of the outlaw country movement in the 1970s, Waylon Jennings bucked the conventions of Nashville with a tough sound and attitude. He died in 2002, but his son Shooter, now an outlaw country ...

Waylon Jennings, the country singer who in the 1970s defined the genre’s outlaw movement along with Willie Nelson, died at the age of 64, Wednesday, at his home in Chandler, Ariz. He had struggled ...

Waylon Jennings was restless. Although he’d released a number of hits since signing with RCA in 1964, by the early 1970s he’d grown frustrated with the label’s demands. His producer, the legendary ...

Waylon Jennings had already had a long and varied career in the music business by the time he scored his first No. 1 hit. The groundbreaking outlaw country singer, songwriter and guitarist reached the ...