Waylon Jennings
Jennings was born in Littlefield, Texas, the son of Lorene Beatrice (née Shipley) and William Alvin Jennings
Texan born Waylon Jennings grew up liking music and at the incredible age of 12 was a pop DJ on his hometown radio station in Littlefield.
Five years later he was presenting country records on air and by the time rock and roll arrived he was a rock DJ in Lubbock Texas.
It was Buddy Holly who offered Waylon his first chance, after hearing Waylon play he invited him to join his band as an Electric Bass Player, however 3 months later Holly was dead.
Legend has it that it was Waylon who gave up his seat to the Big Bopper. Returning to Lubbock he again went back to DJ'ing until he moved to Phoenix Arizona where he founded his own group the Waylors, It was here that he was heard by Bobby Bare who immediately recommended him to his record company RCA.
Waylon moved to Nashville where he shared a room with Johnny Cash. Waylon was promoted from the start as a rebel and even veered away from country music and at one time was opening for rock groups in New York.
It was Waylon who jolted Nashville in 1976 by releasing the biggest album of the year Wanted: The Outlaws, featuring that other famous outlaw Willie Nelson. Later Jennings would complain that the outlaw movement was being overdone
