īeginning with performing at family gatherings, Jennings played his first public concert at the Youth Center with Anthony Bonanno, followed by appearances at the local Jaycees and Lions Clubs. Early influences included Bob Wills, Floyd Tillman, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, Carl Smith, and Elvis Presley. Jennings used to practice with his relatives' instruments until his mother bought him a used Stella guitar, and later ordered a Harmony Patrician. When Jennings was 8, his mother taught him to play guitar with the tune "Thirty Pieces of Silver". It sounded so corny and hillbilly, but it's been good to me, and I'm pretty well at peace with it now." After working as a laborer on the Bittner farm, Jennings's father moved the family to Littlefield and established a retail creamery. Jennings later expressed in his autobiography, "I didn't like Waylon. Lorene Jennings, who was Church of Christ and had been unaware of the college, changed the spelling to Waylon. It was changed after a Baptist preacher visited his parents and congratulated his mother for naming him after the Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. The name on Jennings' birth certificate was Wayland. The Shipley line descended from his great-grandfather, a farmer and lawman from Tennessee, with Jennings adding that "along the way, a lot of Indian blood mixed in," including Cherokee and Comanche families. He was the oldest of four children, followed by Tommy Jennings (1938-2019), James Jennings, and Bo Jennings (1953-2018). The Jennings family line descended from Irish and Black-Dutch. He was the son of Lorene Beatrice (née Shipley, 1920–2006) and William Albert Jennings (1915–1968). In 2007, he was posthumously awarded the Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award by the Academy of Country Music. In 2001, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Between 19, health problems limited his appearances. Jennings toured less after 1997 to spend more time with his family. Jennings has also been named as one of the innovators of progressive country. During that period, Jennings released the successful album Will the Wolf Survive. Later, he joined the country supergroup the Highwaymen with Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash, which released three albums between 19. Jennings struggled with cocaine addiction, which he overcame in 1984. He appeared in films and television series, including Sesame Street, and a stint as the balladeer for The Dukes of Hazzard, composing and singing the show's theme song and providing narration for the show. He was featured on the 1978 album White Mansions, performed by various artists documenting the lives of Confederates during the Civil War. It was followed by another platinum album, a first for any solo artist in country music, Ol' Waylon and the hit song " Luckenbach, Texas". With Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter he recorded country music's first platinum album, Wanted! The Outlaws. After he gained creative control from RCA Records, he released the critically acclaimed albums Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes, followed by the hit albums Dreaming My Dreams and Are You Ready for the Country.ĭuring the 1970s, Jennings drove outlaw country. He recorded for independent label Trend Records and A&M Records, but did not achieve success until moving to RCA Victor in 1965, in 1972 he acquired Neil Reshen as his manager, who negotiated significantly better touring and recording contracts. Jennings then returned to Texas, taking several years off from music before eventually moving to Arizona and forming a rockabilly club band, the Waylors, which became the house band at "JD's", a club in Tempe, Arizona. "the Big Bopper" Richardson and Ritchie Valens. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings' first recording session, a cover of Jole Blon, and hired him to play bass. Jennings left high school at age sixteen, determined to become a musician, and worked as a performer and DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge, Arizona, and Phoenix. Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed at fourteen on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first band, the Texas Longhorns. He is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music. Waylon Arnold Jennings (born Wayland Arnold Jennings June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.
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