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...Waylon Jennings was the other man in black. The "Man Called Hoss." The orneriest corner of a three-man band of country-music outlaws that brought the grit - and the music - back into country music, who helped raze Nashville and remake it his own image. And he did it all Waylon...
Homer Simpson--best known for his role in Fox's cartoon series--received write-in votes for both the council presidency and vice presidency. In addition to Homer, Simpsons characters "Dick Butkis," Waylon Smithers, Montgomery Burns and "the comic store guy" also got votes...
...they are compact and convenient and offer pseudo intimacy with sages and celebrities. The forthcoming John F. Kennedy: A Journey to Camelot by Paul Werth will be read by Sidney Poitier and Caroline Kennedy. Slightly less ritzy (intended, perhaps, to be played in Dodge pickups instead of Lexuses) is Waylon Jennings' rendition of Waylon: An Autobiography. To those who scoff at such books as "ear candy," Seth D. Gershel, publisher of Simon & Schuster Audio, has a snappy answer: "If you'd rather be counting from 1 to 10 over and over again while driving, that's your preference...
Black also delivers on I'll Take Texas, a fiddle-and-steel guitar paean to his home state, and on Tuckered Out, a rollicking tribute to country stars that sneaks the names of Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and others into the verses: "I'm Haggard, worn and Waylon," Black sings and slyly inserts his own name into the musical testimonial. Even as he frets about time running out, you know his time has come...
...California pretty,/ I can't survive the Great White Way," sings WAYLON JENNINGS in Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A., the title cut from his potent new album of barroom sermons. Yet the Last Outlaw of country music will get along somehow. His voice, after four decades of late nights and one-nights, has the moral authority of a man who's found mellow wisdom on hard roads. He tells us, in The Hank Williams Syndrome Is Dead, that it's better to trust an artist's songs than to imitate his misspent life. In Didn...