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Morning Open Thread featuring Waylon Jennings [1]

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Date: 2024-12-07  

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Waylon Jennings (1937 — 2002, RIP) was a country music performer, known for being a leader in ‘outlaw country’, a genre that went outside the typical three-chord 4/4 tempo country style. He worked with Willie Nelson and others in that genre.

But perhaps his most remembered aspect was that he gave up his seat, on the plane that crashed in 1959 with Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Richie Valens. aka The Day The Music Died (Don McLean, American pie).

Anecdote: In 1979 thru 1981 I played drums in a weekend combo that specialized in ‘outlaw country’, it was a lot more like a rock gig than a country gig, lotsa hard-style drumming.

Anyway, here’s some of Waylon’s work.

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