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Remember When ‘Wanted! The Outlaws’ Made Country Music History?

This compilation project from Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser did something no country album ...
American Songwriter

Johnny Cash Once Sent Waylon Jennings a Letter Ahead of a Celebrity Roast, and Yes, Johnny Was Roasting Him, Too

Waylon Jennings participated in a celebrity roast to raise funds for the Spina Bifida Association in November 1985, but Johnny Cash made sure his long-time friend, collaborator, and fellow outlaw ...
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Why A One-Sided Poker Game Ruined Waylon Jennings & Merle Haggard’s Friendship

Two of the greatest of all time in country music...and their friendship was ruined over a poker game. Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard are undoubtedly two of the best to ever do it. But did you ever ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1976, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash Recorded an Outlaw Classic at the House of Cash—From the Perspective of a Prison Inmate

Penned by Hal Bynum and Dave Kirby, the track is written and sung from the perspective of a prison inmate. Throughout the song, the inmate in question, who’s writing a letter to his family, shares ...
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Ethan Hawke & Jimmy Fallon Transformed Into Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash in This Duet

Nelson and Cash are joined by the fellow members of the singers' supergroup The Highwaymen, Waylon Jennings (Ben Dicky) and Kris Kristofferson (Charlie Sexton), in a battle over what this cool group ...