Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings “Songbird”

October 21, 2025 Ben Yelton 2

Rediscovered recordings are hardly revolutionary, but give a fresh voice to later era outlaw legend. While it’s not unusual for departed musicians to have their back catalogues or unheard recordings raided to squeeze an extra dollar […]

Video: Waylon Jennings “Songbird”

August 18, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

What a joyous surprise it is to hear brand new music from country legend Waylon Jennings. Waylon’s son, three-times GRAMMY Award-winner Shooter Jennings, explored his father’s tape recordings and unearthed enough previously unheard songs to compile […]

Realising Waylon’s dreams – Shooter Jennings to put out the first of his father’s archive releases

August 6, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Triple GRAMMY® Award-winner Shooter Jennings has announced the release of “Songbird”, a completely new, previously unheard album by his legendary father, Waylon Jennings. The album will be released via Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers on 3rd October […]

For the Sake of the Song: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson “Highwayman”

June 17, 2024 Peter Thompson 8

In the mid-1980s, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash formed a supergroup, eventually known as The Highwaymen, recording and performing intermittently over a period of 10 years, during which time they released three […]

Book review: Brian Fairbanks “Willie, Waylon, And The Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever”

May 22, 2024 Paul Kerr 2

On the face of it this book is essentially the story of how four “outsiders” (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson), via their trials and tribulations (and, let’s admit it, success) eventually joined […]