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The Waylors, later Waymore's Outlaws, is a country music band, best known as the backing and recording band of country music singer Waylon Jennings.Jennings formed the band in 1961, consisting of Jerry Gropp on the guitar and Richie Albright on the drums after moving to Phoenix, Arizona.
In mid-1999, Jennings assembled what he referred to as his "hand-picked dream team" and formed Waylon & the Waymore Blues Band. Consisting primarily of former Waylors, the 13-member group performed concerts from 1999 to 2001. [ 102 ]
Jennings, his health failing, played his last major concert at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium in January 2000. He was backed by the all-star Waymore Blues Band, whom Jennings called "the band I always wanted," and joined onstage by his wife Jessi Colter , and by guests John Anderson , Travis Tritt and Montgomery Gentry .
The group was founded in 2002, when a Winnipeg guitar shop called Sled Dog Music brought Ruth Moody, Nicky Mehta and Cara Luft together for a joint performance. The show was well received and the owner, John Sharples, scheduled a follow-up performance [2] and suggested they "go on tour and call themselves the Wailin' Jennys."
Jennings, who died in 2002 at age 64, started his career playing in Holly's band. He had been set to fly on the plane that crashed in 1959, killing Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P.
Mirriam Johnson (born May 25, 1943), known professionally as Jessi Colter, is an American country singer who is best known for her collaborations with her second husband, country musician Waylon Jennings, and for her 1975 crossover hit "I'm Not Lisa". Colter was one of the few female artists to emerge from the mid-1970s "outlaw country ...
Live from Austin, TX is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on New West Records in 2006.As part of New West's series of albums featuring individual artists' performances on Austin City Limits, it was recorded on April 1, 1989, several months after the release of Full Circle, Jennings' last album for MCA Records, and a year before the singer's move to Epic Records would yield The Eagle.
Waylon Jennings (1985, 1990, 1997 with Kris Kristofferson) Jewel (2000) Jim and Jesse (1986 with Bill Monroe, 1997 classic encore) Flaco Jiménez (1976, 1980, 1995, 1999 "Mexican Roots Music") Santiago Jiménez, Jr. (1987) Eric Johnson (1984, 1988, 1997, 2000 with Clint Black, 2001) Jack Johnson (2005) Freedy Johnston (1998 with Indigo Girls)