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Just before the concert tour, he completed the trucker movie Convoy (TIME July 4). No more films are on his agenda -at least for now. Like his Texas buddies Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, he wants to "get back to the basics"-of music, mixing with the musicians, jamming a little and hearing other groups. The other day he liked a song on the radio, but had not the slightest idea what it was or who was singing it (he later learned that it was the Swedish group ABBA). Kristofferson does not like being that far out of touch. Like...
...celebrate the end of pollution in the Saint Johns River, with stunt flyers, hot-air balloons, parachute jumping, the mayor waterskiing, and trucks dumping hundreds of fish into the cleaned-up waterway. In the Texas hill country, the tiny town of Luckenbach (pop. 6), now made famous by Waylon Jennings' country-and-western song about the simple life there, is holding Saturday night dances that attract as many as 2,000 outsiders...
...festivals across the land, blue-grass picks and twangs its way along pretty much as it has for the past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas, the country-rock cantatas of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are as popular as ever. No single style or performance can typify all of country music. But one strain of country is something old and new called honkytonk. It is both a style and a place, and of the place it used to be said that "honky-tonks were where...
BACK WHEN Jerry Jeff Walker started playing at bars and nightclubs in Austin, Texas, country music was a lot different from what it is now. Back then, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings were still putting grease in their hair and blending into the multitude of singers in Nashville, Rusty Weir was grinding out acid rock, and David Allen Coe was in prison. Nobody, least of all Jerry Jeff, would have guessed that he was starting a musical movement of sorts, still less that all those people would be drawn into...
...Saturday nights when my friends had dates was the music. In every joint there is a Wurlitzer filled with country music, and maybe a little K.C. & the Sunshine Band thrown incongruously in for dancing and revisionism. The best songs in the jukebox were progressive country: Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings (and the Waylors), Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Emmy Lou Harris, along with Jimmy Buffet in a more folk-pop direction and Merle Haggard in a more mainstream country tradition. With his Friends album, Hank Williams, Jr. joins this group...