BIOGRAPHY
Waylon Jennings (1937-2002) grew up in Littlefield, Texas, learning guitar before age ten and working as a radio DJ by twelve. In Lubbock he met Buddy Holly, playing bass in his band before narrowly avoiding the 1959 plane crash that killed Holly, an event later remembered as "The Day the Music Died." After moving to Nashville in 1965 and signing to RCA under Chet Atkins, Jennings released 1973's Honky Tonk Heroes, widely regarded as the first outlaw country album. With Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser he appeared on 1976's Wanted! The Outlaws, the first country album certified platinum. He later joined Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson in the Highwaymen, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.