Next thing you know, DEA agents were coming through the doors and into the control room. If anyone was qualified to warn expectant mothers against the dangers of the rock & roll lifestyle, it was Waylon Jennings, who started making his living as a hard-living cosmic cowboy in the late 1950s. Cars pull up, the boys get out. "Honky Tonk Heroes". It took him six years after this incident to finally quit his drug addiction, but once he did, he stayed sober for the rest of his life. Waylon Jennings - Living Legends. And that's due in large part to the fact that his songs told honest, authentic, and real life stories about his lived experiences and things that he went through… the good, the bad, and often… the ugly.
Like I ain′t never seen. And the room fill up with law. One of the more insane stories I've heard about him was the time that he got arrested for cocaine possession… or, lack thereof. INTRO: F#m D A E. F#m D. I'm for law and order. Jennings also threw a bone to his road band, the Waylors, who had been contractually blocked from performing on any of his RCA records previously. Waylon Jennings - Sight For Sore Eyes. Willie Nelson even got a piece of the action, singing the song's final verse while prepping fans for the Waylon and Willie album that would appear one year later. Don't you think this o utlaw shit has gotten out of hand?
Though he wore a black hat, he was truly one of music's good guys. Have the inside scoop on this song? But by the time Jennings sings "tell me one more time just so I understand, are you sure Hank done it this way? " 2 [RCA Victor]", "Ultimate Waylon Jennings", "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line", "Super Hits, Vol. One month before the birth of his son Shooter, Jennings ducked into the recording studio to add different lyrics to "Amanda, " a song he'd originally released five years prior. Outlaw S**t. W. Jennings. Waylon Jennings - Breakin' Down. Protecting you from me. Waylon Jennings - Sweet Music Man. Eventually, DEA agents got on his trail after someone sent Waylon an ounce of cocaine as a gift through a private delivery service. She wrote about it in her book, An Outlaw And A Lady, remembering that he told her this: "I need you to go through all my things, I mean everything, and flush down the toilet anything that even looks suspicious. Full of swagger, "Only Daddy" even punctuated a key scene in this season's Mad Men, after an especially confident Don Draper crashes a meeting. For a long time, he took pills, but stopped after Elvis' death in 1977 at the young age of 42. It was also his voice singing the tailor-made theme song he wrote especially for the show.
This song's about the night they spent protecting you fro m me. We were wrapped up in the m usic, that's why we never saw, The cars pull up, the boys get out and the room fill up with law. Covered by everyone from Travis Tritt to Dierks Bentley, "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" remains testament to Jennings' wild, wandering and, at times, exhausted spirit. Billy Joe Shaver may have written most of Honky Tonk Heroes, including the title track, but it was Waylon Jennings who injected the album with roughnecked, rocky-tonk attitude, bridging the gap between the rootsy twang of country music and the rule-breaking stomp of rock & roll. Waylon's heavy drug use was never a secret, and he often talked about it later in his career once he got sober. Waylon Jennings - Angel Eyes. "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line". Someone called us outlaws in some old ma gazine. Worshipped as the patron saint of the perennially popular Outlaw Movement, Waylon Jennings helped turn staid Nashville on its head, carving his own path through label politics to bring a fresh energy and rock-edged sound to Music Row. "Theme From The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)". Sign up and drop some knowledge. R/CountryMusicStuff. So of course, they had to leave and go get a correct warrant before any arrests could be made.
It was delivered to Waylon at the studio where he was recording. While its lyrics obliquely referenced the law-bending main characters, Jennings wrote directly about his own below-the-neck appearances on the show in the final verse: "I'm a good ol' boy, you know my mama loves me/but she don't understand they keep a-showing my hands and not my face on TV. " Waylon Jennings - I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up). He stayed away from the house until he could get things cleared up, but it terrified Jessi in the meantime as press reports got leaked all over the country about what went down. Waylon Jennings - Lucille (Won't You Do Your Daddy's Will). New York sent a posse down like I ain't ever seen. In the middle of my song. This ain't it, this outlaw s**t. A E D A A/G# F#m A E. Has gotten outta hand, outta hand. Of all the songs Jennings has written, none has galvanized country fans quite like this one, which looks at country's changing sound through the eyes of its revered patriarch, Hank Williams. ", "Legends", "Waylon Jennings, Vol. The new version — including the revised line "I got my first guitar when I was 14/Well, I finally made 40, still wearing jeans" — was included on 1979's Greatest Hits, a best-of compilation that unofficially capped the most successful decade of his career. An employee (snitch) at the service was suspicious of what was in the package and opened it, discovering the cocaine that was inside.
Though written by Steve Young, the pen behind the Eagles' evocative "Seven Bridges Road, " "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" became Jennings' theme song, summing up the way the seminal outlaw went through at least part of his career. While he may not have done exactly everything the lyrics talk about — although he did run afoul of the law in 1977 for cocaine possession — Jennings sang it with such believability that one would believe he was a lifelong jailbird. The song was among the first to foreshadow what would become Jennings' signature raw sound, less polished than his Nashville contemporaries. Our systems have detected unusual activity from your IP address (computer network). I'm for law and order. As made famous by Waylon Jennings. "I've always been crazy… nobody knows if it's something to bless or something to blame, " he sang in the song's final verse, letting his own audience judge his fate. After Waylon hired two "big-time lawyers" from New York City, all charges were dropped after a preliminary hearing due to the bad warrant, Terry says: "Behind the scenes, the prosecutor told Dad that because of the bad warrant, they had nothing on him.
Hey maybe this here outlaw bit's done got out of hand out of hand. Share your thoughts about Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand? A E. The way that it should be. They got me for posession. Fueled by the hard-won freedom to finally call his own shots — and, if the album's cover art is any indication, a good bit of alcohol — Jennings turned "Honky Tonk Heroes" into the mother of all outlaw country tunes, birthing an entire movement in three minutes and 36 seconds.