There's Nothing Like Injecting a Waylon Jennings Song Title Into a Teenybopper Thread


I almost did it.

I almost provided something to the people responding to Annika's February 22 post.

I almost provided them with a direct link to July 14 post.

Instead, I merely stated the title of the post. Instead of quashing the whole idea that a poster could reach Lindsay Lohan by leaving a comment on the February 22nd post, I have tried to instigate comments on the American Skankwoman.

For perspective, here's the comment that I offered a few days ago:


Man, I like reed the blog and stuf in reverse order and i sed sumfin about paris haveing her email addy and thehn i get back to this post from febuary and thats what annika sed then. Boy im a dumas. which reminds me of a kermit shafer joke, not kermit the frog, kermit shafer he wuz kewl he did bloopers before dick clark who is the old guy who looks yung. But anyway wut i reelly wanted to say is that i read tony pierce and he's like way cool and like linsy should date tony pearce but shes only 18 y know? but i cant rite like this convincingly cause im like 43 and stuff and as i repeatedly say in my blog, i am not trendy.

Posted by: Ontario Emperor on Jul. 18, 2005



By the way, there is more information about Kermit Schaefer here.

Here's the comment I offered this afternoon:


linsy i said im not trendy but i realy am so culd you gimme the email addy for cathrine bach the original daisy duke ? an like wassup with jesica simpson as daisy duke? are u shure hank done it this way? thats a waylon jennings song (to apply the proper historical perspective to the discussion)

Did you know that this blog has two audiences? :)

Actually three. Considering the constant conversations between Annika and Britney Spears, I can almost assure you that if you wanted to leave a message for Mrs. Federline, it would be read if you posted it here. Mrs. Federline and Annika have the highest respect for each other.

Posted by: Ontario Emperor on Jul. 21, 2005



Now the readers will think that Annika's making a play for dreamboat Kevin. Call me evil.

But let's return to Waylon and Willie and the boys.

The Essential Waylon Jennings (emphasis mine):


1 Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line
2 Brown Eyed Handsome Man Available
3 Taker
4 Good Hearted Woman
5 You Asked Me To [Single Re-mix]
6 Amanda
7 Rainy Day Woman
8 Waymore's Blues
9 Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
10 Wild Side of Life/It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels
11 Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)
12 Theme from the Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)
13 Storms Never Last
14 Just to Satisfy You
15 Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)
16 Never Could Toe the Mark
17 America
18 Broken Promise Land
19 Drinkin' and Dreamin'
20 Whatever Happened to the Blues

...The Essential Waylon Jennings may not contain every hit Jennings every recorded or every fine album track he cut, but -- as the title implies -- it does have the bare-bone essentials ("Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line," "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," and several others), making it a great single-disc retrospective assembled on the groundbreaking country singer....



And a bit of the CMT biography on Waylon...and Willie...and Buddy:


...In 1958 he moved to Lubbock, where he worked as a DJ and met rising star Buddy Holly, with whom he toured and played electric bass during 1958 and 1959. It was Jennings who gave up his seat to the Big Bopper (J. P. Richardson) on the doomed 1959 plane flight that took the lives of Holly, Richardson, and singer Ritchie Valens.

The disaster stunned Jennings, and it took him several years to regain his momentum. But his time with Holly had been pivotal: "Mainly what I learned from Buddy," Jennings recalled, "was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it."...

[H]is first RCA session took place in March 1965. Over the next five years, Jennings won mainstream country stardom....

Despite his achievements, the high-spirited Jennings chafed under Nashville's typical production process, in which salaried staff producers chose song material and session musicians and recorded artists in company studios. Gradually he won the right to choose his own songs, producers, and sidemen (often his road band), in the process turning out albums like 1973's Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes, which showcased the hard-hitting, stripped-down music he much preferred to pop-tinged Nashville Sound productions. Hit singles such as "I'm a Ramblin' Man" and "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" also exemplified his hard-charging, rock-influenced style. In 1975 he won CMA's male vocalist of the year award.

By this time Jennings was extending his audience to embrace hordes of college-age fans, who flocked to see him at venues including Willie Nelson's free-wheeling outdoor music festivals at Dripping Springs, Texas. In 1976, both artists soared to even more dizzying heights with the RCA release Wanted! The Outlaws. Featuring Jennings, Nelson, Tompall Glaser, and Jennings's wife, Jessi Colter, it became the first country album to be certified platinum....

As the '70s progressed, Jennings and Nelson recorded duet albums and crossover hits like "Luckenbach, Texas" and "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," which won a 1978 Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group....[T]he TV series The Dukes of Hazzard --- for which Jennings wrote and sang the theme song and served as offscreen narrator --- further popularized his sound....



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