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...Ready for . . .") suggests, Young, the co-sponsor of last Sunday's 14-hour FarmAid extravaganza, has found what he says he wants to do with the rest of his life. And he's found the right people to do it with: those old outlaws, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, are on hand for several duets...
Nelson, the grizzly Texas superstar who blends western and pop music, has garnered support from across the musical spectrum. Pop stars like John Cougar Mellencamp, as well as Country Veterans Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, will be joined by old-time Rockers Bob Dylan and Neil Young for the twelve- hour extravaganza. Many residents of Champaign are opening their homes to the 78,000 people scheduled to attend...
Cynics should run for cover. Anyone for whom the USA for Africa project has assumed a nearly impenetrable smog of sanctimony will be hard pressed to clear the air. All right, everyone got sore at Prince for not jumping in. And yes, Waylon Jennings walked out of the session, but he was bushed and besides joked later about his best friend: "That recording studio wasn't big enough for me and Willie Nelson...
Last week Duvall was in Nashville cutting an album of country music with the assistance of such chums as June Carter Cash and Waylon Jennings. "People do that around here-help each other out," says the California-born actor. Singing runs in his blood like trout in a country stream. "My younger brother sings tenor with the Milwaukee opera company, and another brother sings tenor in Washington, D.C.," he says. "I've loved country music since...
...several moments in this collection of eight short stories and a novella, characters turn on a radio or record player and listen to country and western music: Crystal Gayle, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. Author Andre Dubus, 47, makes this C & W name dropping seem more than a bid for easy topicality. He writes about people whose lives evoke sad songs and wailing pedal steel guitars. They work at checkout counters, wait on tables, tend bar or fry hamburgers at fast-food outlets. All are somehow stranded, searching for a pattern to their existence beyond the wet circles left behind...