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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music. Jennings started playing guitar at age eight and performed at fourteen on KVOW radio, after
[a] [1] [2] The event became known as "The Day the Music Died" after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie". At the time, Holly and his band, consisting of Waylon Jennings, Tommy Allsup, and Carl Bunch, were playing on the "Winter Dance Party" tour across the American Midwest.
Never Say Die: The Final Concert is a 2000 concert film featuring Waylon Jennings.Jennings, his health failing, played his last major concert at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium in January 2000.
Country legends Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson formed the country supergroup in 1985 ... Jennings died on Feb. 13, 2002, at age 64 from complications of ...
The Outlaws,” along with her husband Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser. ... how the process of grieving and moving on after Waylon Jennings’ death in 2002 is captured in the ...
The band continued to tour into the late 1990s, before Jennings and Cash both started to decline in health, which prevented them from maintaining a full touring schedule. All four continued to perform as solo artists, with Jennings briefly joining another country supergroup, Old Dogs; Jennings died in 2002, and Cash died in 2003.
Jennings died in 2002, and Cash the year after, leaving Nelson the last group member standing. ... Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson performing in 1985.
The lineup was expanded during the next decade, they backed Jennings until his death in 2002. Reformed in 2008, the group performs on its own with Tommy Townsend as their lead vocalist, with occasional performances as the band for Albright's namesake, Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings, the son of Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter.