Waylon Jennings – Shine
user About The Song “Shine” is one of the lean, defiant singles that carried Waylon Jennings into the early 1980s while…
Waylon Jennings – The Taker
About The Song “The Taker” is one of the early Waylon Jennings singles that pointed straight toward the sound people…
Waylon Jennings – I May Be Used (But Baby I Aint Used Up)
About The Song “I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain’t Used Up)” is a country single recorded by Waylon…
Waylon Jennings – Women Do Know How To Carry On
About The Song “Women Do Know How to Carry On” is a country song co-written and recorded by Waylon Jennings.…
Waylon Jennings – Can’t You See
About The Song “Can’t You See” was written by Toy Caldwell and first recorded by the for their 1973 debut…
Waylon Jennings – Just to Satisfy You
About The Song “Just to Satisfy You” is a tune that Waylon Jennings co-wrote with Don Bowman in 1960. The…
Waylon Jennings – Drinking and Dreaming
About The Song “Drinkin’ and Dreamin’” (often stylized on releases as “Drinkin’ and Dreamin’”) is a song written by Troy…
Waylon Jennings – Rainy Day Woman
About The Song Written and recorded by American country musician Waylon Jennings, “Rainy Day Woman” utterly compares the ironic nature…
Conway Twitty – Happy Birthday Darlin
About The Song The third number one single from Conway Twitty’s album “Cross Winds” represented a new level of achievement.…
Conway Twitty – Red Neckin’ Love Makin’ Night
About The Song One of the most fruitful yet least recognized songwriting duos of the 1970s and ‘80s was Troy…
Conway Twitty – Don’t Call Him A Cowboy
About The Song Songwriter Johnny MacRae didn’t decide to follow a career in music until he was in the last…
Conway Twitty – I Love You More Today
About The Song In 1970, Conway Twitty appointed L. E. White to manage his publishing company – “Twitty Bird Music.”…
Conway Twitty – (Lost Her Love) On Our Last Date
About The Song It’s taken over half a century, but we’re finally in a time again where the walls between…
Conway Twitty – This Time I’ve Hurt Her More Than She Loves Me
About The Song Conway Twitty and Earl Thomas Conley were both literally on the move while “This Time I’ve Hurt…
Conway Twitty – Touch The Hand
About The Song “Touch The Hand” represents one-half of a very unusual single for Conway Twitty. Two-sided hits have emerged…
Conway Twitty – I Don’t Know A Thing About Love
About The Song With a songwriting capability that propelled him for nearly 40 years, Harlan Howard was the dean of…
Conway Twitty – Crazy In Love
About The Song Conway Twitty is no stranger when it comes to sentimental songs – “Crazy In Love,” “It’s Only…
Conway Twitty – Desperado Love
About The Song “Desperado Love” is a song written by Michael Garvin and Sammy Johns, and recorded by American country…
Conway Twitty – I May Never Get To Heaven
About The Song In 1975, the Nashville Songwriters Association inducted Bill Anderson into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Unlike…
1974: WHEN COUNTRY MUSIC TURNED WILD — AND WAYLON TURNED INSIDE OUT. It was the year country music rebelled against itself — rough, raw, and louder than ever. And right in the middle stood Waylon Jennings, leather jacket on, eyes like fire, daring Nashville to look him in the eye. To the crowd, he was untouchable — the outlaw king who bent every rule and made it sound righteous. But when the curtain fell and the bar lights faded, the man behind the legend sat quietly, chasing something no applause could give him. In a dim room filled with cigarette haze, he wrote not for glory, but for peace — the kind that hurts to find. Those who listen closely know: behind the grit was a heart breaking in slow motion. And somewhere in his voice, you can still hear it.
Hoài Trần In 1974, the heart of country music was changing. Nashville had built an empire of polished songs and perfect smiles,…