Waylon Jennings News

Jake Owen is up for Best New Artist at the CMA Awards this Wednesday, and he'll be sporting a new good luck charm on his arm -- a tattoo of Waylon Jennings' eagle logo.

Carrie Underwood, guitar-playing blonde lady , completes the disintegration of country as a genre with her new album Play On .

Modern-day outlaw: At 33, Randy Houser is older than some established country acts, yet the scruffy singer with a deep Mississippi drawl is up for new artist of the year at next week's Country Music Association Awards.

Late at night, in his bedroom in Yonkers, N.Y., James Voight used to sit up and listen to WWVA out of Wheeling.

Getting back to the basics of love , I put together this Waylon Jennings playlist, gathering the highlights from a few of my CD collections.

Because Willis Alan Ramsey has released only one album in 37 years doesn't mean he's a recluse.

As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music.

'Revolution'; Sony Nashville 4 stars out of 4 Miranda Lambert's 'Revolution' unfolds more like a rock album than the mainstream country CD it is.

Scott H. Biram is a self proclaimed dirty one-man band that throws together blues, hillbilly and country with some raucous punk and godless metal to create a gritty sound similar to Waylon Jennings and Tom Waits.

Start: Oct 23, 2009 End: Oct 23, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Price: $8 in advance and $10 at show time.

Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus must need glasses. That's the only reasonable explanation for the silly comment the bassist made to the crowd assembled for his band's show at San Jose's HP Pavilion on Friday night.

Chris Young scores his first number one hit this week with "Gettin' You Home " rising to the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

It wasn't until the last part of Friday night's performance at Bowery Ballroom that Jamey Johnson responded to the audience's shouted requests by stating laconically but unequivocally, "We're gonna stand up here and play whatever the f*** we want to." But it was clear all through the show that this is the hard-country hero's guiding principle.

Thrifty Tunes 10.10.09: Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn Posted by Paul Hollingsworth on 10.10.2009 His best known songs were hits for other people.

Jamey Johnson was drawling his way through a rueful country waltz at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday night, and his audience, small but boisterous, just kept up the din.

Waylon Jennings is the recognized father of the Outlaw movement of country, a rebel against the Nashville establishment whose recordings blended honky- tonk, rock 'n' roll and folk in a way virtually nobody else was doing at the time.

Disciples of Waylon Jennings' irreverence, The Gourds are one of the few groups to develop a subculture of wayward adherents.

Submitted by Collins Parker on September 25, 2009 - 1:30pm. A lot of times, I'll find myself walking down some downtown street, speculating on what I would do with that old building on the corner if I had the money.

Laurens group Outshyne received Best Country Group honors at the second annual Carolina Music Awards on Aug.

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