Waylon Jennings
Year Award Organization
1970 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal w/ The Kimberlys for MacArthur Park The Recording Academy
1975 Male Vocalist of the Year Country Music Association
1976 Album of the Year with Jessi Colter , Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser for Wanted ! The Outlaws Country Music Association
1976 Vocal Duo of the Year with Willie Nelson Country Music Association
1976 Single of the Year with Willie Nelson for Good-Hearted Woman Country Music Association
1979 Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal with Willie Nelson for Mamas , Do n't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys The Recording Academy
1985 Single of the Year with the other members of The Highwaymen for Highwayman Academy of Country Music
1999 Texas Country Music Hall of Fame induction Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
2001 Country Music Hall of Fame induction Country Music Association
2006 Guitar Center 's RockWalk induction Guitar Center
2007 Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award Academy of Country Music
2007 Lifetime Achievement Award Nashville Songwriters ' Festival
2017 100 Greatest Country Artists of All Time , Rank No . 7 Rolling Stone
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Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 - February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing guitar at age eight and began performing at age twelve on KVOW radio, after which he formed his first band, The Texas Longhorns. Jennings left high school at age sixteen, determined to become a musician, and bounced around as a performer and DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI, KLLL, in Coolidge, Arizona, and Phoenix. In 1958, Buddy Holly arranged Jennings's first recording session, and hired him to play bass. Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight in 1959 that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. The Big Bopper Richardson and Ritchie Valens. Jennings formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors, which became the house band at JD's, a club in Scottsdale, Arizona. He recorded for independent label Trend Records and A&M Records, but did not achieve success until moving to RCA Victor, taking on Neil Reshen as a manager, who negotiated significantly better touring and recording contracts for him. After finally wresting creative control from RCA Victor, his career turning point became the critically acclaimed albums Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes, followed by hit LPs Dreaming My Dreams and Are You Ready for the Country. During the 1970s, Jennings was instrumental in the inception of outlaw country and with Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter recorded country music's first platinum album, Wanted! The Outlaws. It was followed by Ol' Waylon and the hit song Luckenbach, Texas. Jennings was featured in the 1978 album White Mansions, performed by various artists documenting the lives of people in the Confederacy during the Civil War.