“He is the rock of American popular music business, in my mind,' says Jessi Colter.
Twenty years after his death, Jennings’ name is appearing in song lyrics, his voice is present on two previously unreleased tracks about to reach the marketplace, and his rebel ways were one of the most talked-about elements in the recent Netflix documentary Jennings, as that film demonstrated, walked out on Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Bob Dylan and other fellow stars during the epic 1985 recording session for “We Are the World,” when the all-star assemblage got sidetracked by efforts to...
“I’ve been a major Waylon Jennings fan for a very long time,” says Birge. “ ’Honky Tonk Heroes’ is probably my favorite Waylon song. I’ve listened to that song no less than 10,000 times in my dad’s truck. He had a five-disc CD player in his F-150, back in the days where the CD player was under the back seat of the cab. His was one of the CDs in there, so I definitely was very, very heavily influenced by Waylon.
They set a tone for their era, and their lone-ranger musical spirit became the standard that the current crop of hit-makers is judged against. “I think guys like Aldean, and even Morgan and HARDY, they’re guys who do that,” suggests Bundy. “They might not really play by the rules, but, you know, they don’t care. Which is refreshing.”
One of the ways Jennings changed the sound of country was his adoption of Southern rock textures. He was known to employ chords that departed from country norms, that toughened up his music’s underlying progressions and bordered on the blues. And one particular triad — which breaks standard key signatures while sounding like it still belongs — can still be heard in songs like Riley Green’s “Damn Good Day To Leave” .
“There’s not a whole lot of interpreters,” Colter maintains. “He is the rock of the American popular music business, in my mind.”
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