Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music.
Jennings performing on the Johnny Cash Spring Fever Special in 1976
Jennings during a broadcast of his show on KLLL in 1958
Jennings (left) in a Photo Booth in Grand Central Station with Buddy Holly on January 23, 1959.
Jennings in a promotional shot for A&M Records in 1963
Outlaw country is a subgenre of American country music created by a small group of iconoclastic artists active in the 1970s and early 1980s, known collectively as the outlaw movement, who fought for and won their creative freedom outside of the Nashville establishment that dictated the sound of most country music of the era. Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and David Allan Coe were among the movement's most commercially successful members.
L-R Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings at the Dripping Springs Reunion in 1972