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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, ... In December 2001, his left foot was amputated at a hospital in Phoenix.
Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings is a posthumous album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released on September 25, 2012.The release includes eight unreleased songs written and recorded by Jennings along with his bassist Robby Turner during the last years of his life, as well as eight songs never released before in any version.
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 .
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.
It was released in September 1977 as the first single from the album Waylon & Willie. The song was Jennings' sixth number one on the country charts. The single spent two weeks at the top and a total of eleven weeks on the chart. [1] It was later covered by Kacey Musgraves for a tribute show to Jennings, the live album of which was released in 2017.
Country music pioneers Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings formed the group in 1985. The four musicians had led the formation of the outlaw country subgenre, a rock ...
Jennings also made a music video for the song which features him playing a mandolin. For the most part the mood of the album is light, with the singer composing four of the album's ten tracks that celebrate his home state ("People Up in Texas "), outlaw bravado ("Never Could Toe the Mark," "Gemini Song"), and sobriety ("Talk Good Boogie").
It sampled the work of his legendary Country Music Hall of Famer step-grandfather, Waylon Jennings and Grammy-winning grandmother, Jessi Colter. William Curtis Harness Jr., professionally known as ...