waylon jennings

These country albums are turning the big 5-0 this year!

Rest in peace, Terry ...

Recently, a story on Facebook shared the news that radio stations in Nashville were pulling all Waylon Jennings songs from their library after protests from a few groups that were offended by lyrics from a particular song, specifically 'Luckenbach, Texas'.

The Boot rounds up a list of 50 country, Americana, alt-country, bluegrass and folk songs that everyone should hear at least once in their lifetime.

A country music icon was almost on the plane with him ...

This album changed country music forever.

'An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life With Waylon, and the Faith That Brought Me Home', by Jessi Colter, is set for release in April of 2017.

In 1985, Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash made a rare appearance together on the 'Late Night with David Letterman Show.'

Sam Hunt covered Waylon Jennings' "Belle of the Ball" at a recent concert.

In the midst of an enormous controversy over some comments he recently made about outlaw country, Luke Bryan has offered an apology to the widow and son of Waylon Jennings.

Waylon Jennings' daughter-in-law has offered an angry response to the comments Luke Bryan made last week, perceived by some to be an attack on legendary country artists like Jennings, Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.

In true CCSN tradition (established by me and honored by no one else here), let's jump in the time machine and take a quick look at what our favorite classic country artists were up to.

A collection of Classic Country's most bad ass beard wearers in honor of the Ragin Cajuns baseball team.

Tompall Glaser, who appeared on the very first platinum selling country music album - 'Wanted! The Outlaws' has died.

Here is a quick way to turn a quarter into a dollar. A simple bet that you can win every time. Honesty is optional of course.

It was billed as Hee Haw with fast cars and girls in short shorts and it turned into an American Icon. It was this day 1979 America and the rest of the world took its first visit into Hazzard County. It was there we met the Dukes of Hazzard

"Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings of Waylon Jennings" will be released in September. Waylon was working on the music when he died in 2002.

All this week with Bruce & the Kennel Club we've been interviewing artists who are part of the new Waylon Jennings tribute album. This morning we spoke with James Otto and Waylon's widow Jessi Colter. If you missed it, listen to the interview here:

There's a great new Waylon Jennings tribute cd coming out tomorrow (2/8) and all this week with Bruce & the Kennel Club we'll have interviews with some of the artists who leant their talents for the new disc. Listen all day Tuesday to win your free copy. Here's Sunny Sweeney with Waylon's widow Jessi Colter talking about the cd and the song they chose to do together.