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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, ... Between 1999 and 2001, health problems limited his appearances.
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 .
Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle; May 31, 1938 – February 19, 2003) [1] was an American country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It".
Country legends Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, ... until Jennings and Cash's health began declining. Jennings died on Feb. 13, 2002, at age 64 from complications of diabetes. A year later, Cash ...
This article originally appeared in the Jan. 1988 issue of SPIN. Waylon Jennings was born on June 15, 1937. In his honor, we are republishing this interview here. "You’re gonna get in trouble if ...
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, 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.
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").