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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15 1937 – February 13 2002) was an influential United States of America|American country music singer and musician. A self-taught guitar player, he rose to prominence as a bass guitar|bass player for Buddy Holly following the break-up of The Crickets. He escaped death in the February 3, 1959 The Day the Music Died|plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Jiles Perry Richardson|J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson
when he gave up his seat to the latter.<ref>http://www.fiftiesweb.com/crash.htm</ref>
After a brief performing and recording career in Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix, Arizona he moved to Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville, Tennessee, where he did not fit in with the tightly organized music industry in that city.{{Fact|date=April 2008 By the 1970s, he had become associated with so-called "outlaw country|outlaws," an informal group of musicians who worked outside of the Nashville corporate scene. A series of duet albums with Willie Nelson in the late 1970s culminated in the 1979 in country music|1978 crossover hit, "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys". In 1979 in country music|1979, he recorded the theme song for the hit television show ''The Dukes of Hazzard'', and also served as the narrator ("The Balladeer") for all seven seasons of the show.<re... read all
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Waylon Jennings Grave
Waylon Jennings Grave
Waylon Jennings Grave
Waylon Jennings Grave
Waylon Jennings Grave
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Dont Take Your Love To Town
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El Rio Tan Pocito
