Collaboration is at the very heart of Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen‘s partnership under the “Hold My Beer” name, refined over 15 years or so of live performances and expertly distilled on the friendly duo’s 2015 debut album. But there’s an entirely new type of collaboration on the Texas singer-songwriters’ …
Read More »Flashback: Waylon Jennings Summons Outlaw Spirit at His Final Nashville Show
Throughout a series of health challenges in the last years of his life, Waylon Jennings retained the same outlaw spirit that he first brought to Nashville in the early Sixties, when RCA producer Chet Atkins signed him to the label. Although Atkins wanted Jennings to be himself, the veteran producer-guitarist …
Read More »Flashback: Waylon Jennings Signs With A&M, Cuts Haunting 'Love Denied'
On July 9th, 1963, Waylon Jennings was living and playing in Phoenix, Arizona, when he received a recording contract in the mail. His friend, songwriter and comedian Don Bowman, had taken Jennings’ demo recordings to Jerry Moss, who with trumpet-playing bandleader Herb Alpert, had started a small label called A&M …
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