DAVE'S DIARY - 20 APRIL 2010 - WAYLON JENNINGS

WAYLON JENNINGS SONG NAME CHECKS?

Prominent Australian country music archivist and former Nu Country FM Long In The Saddle show host Barbara Dowling soon returns to the Texas birthplace of late country music legend Waylon Jennings.

The pioneer CMAA judge and Wandong Country Music festival pioneer will spend July 4 in Littlefield near Lubbock.

But the revered expert on the famed singing actor, singing spouse Jessi Colter and recording artist son Shooter is on a mission.

She wants to complete an exhaustive list of recorded songs that feature the name or nickname of Waylon who died from diabetes related illness at 64 on February 13, 2002.

The archivist has not listed acclaimed Waylon tribute discs Lonesome, Orn'ry & Mean and I've Always Been Crazy that received wide exposure last decade.

Red River Tribute - a live double compilation CD featuring mainly Texas artists plus Shooter Jennings - also appeared in 2003 with proceeds going to The American Diabetes Foundation.

Shady Creek Outlaws also released Waylon Grass - a Bluegrass Tribute to Waylon Jennings - in 2006.

Now Dierks Bentley has recorded the Steve Young penned Waylon song Lonesome, Orn'ry & Mean for a 2010 Jennings tribute disc.

Meanwhile archivist Dowling wants to add to her list of songs about Waylon so she can present it to his surviving kinfolk in West Texas.

Here is her list.

Can you add to it?

If so email us at music@nucountry.com.au or saddle@alphalink.com.au


SONGS ABOUT WAYLON OR NAME CHECKS

All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) - Hank Williams Jr
All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down) - Gretchen Wilson
An Outlaw's Blues - Chris Wall
Another Hard Luck Ace - Lacy J Dalton
Are You Sure Waylon Done It This Way - Clint Black
Back When Country Was Ugly - Tim Wilson
Backstage Pass - Johnny Cash
Band Of Brothers - Dierks Bentley
Between Jennings And Jones - Jamey Johnson
Big Brothers - Tommy Jennings with Tommy Cash
Country Folks Livin' Loud - Lost Trailers
Country Heroes - Hank Williams III
Country Is My Rock - Trent Tomlinson
Country Music Has The Blues - Billy Ray Cyrus-Loretta Lynn-George Jones
Country Music Nightmare - Boxcar Willie
Country Singer - Ray Moore
Cowboy For A Day - Adam Harvey
Days Of America - Blackhawk
Don't Cuss The Fiddle - Kris Kristofferson
Eyes Of Waylon - Hank Williams Jr
Final Attraction - Kris Kristofferson
Five Piece Band - Chris Wall
Flying W - Robby Turner
Four on the Floor - Lee Brice
Freightliner Fever - Red Sovine
Hammer Of The Honky Tonk Gods - Bill Kirchen
Hank Williams Junior, Junior - David Allan Coe
Hats Off - Alabama
How To Be A Country Star - Statler Brothers
I Can't Stand Country Music - Gene Fisk
I'd Love To Have A Joint With Willie - The Dead Livers
I'll Say It's True - Johnny Cash George Jones
If You Don't Like Hank Williams - Hank Williams Jr
If You Don't Like Hank Williams - Kris Kristofferson
Jessi I Wanted That Award - Sherwin Linton
Johnny Cash Junkie (Buck Owens Freak) - Brooks & Dunn
Let My Fingers Do The Walking - Tompall Glaser
Lotta Boot Left To Fill - Eric Church
Luckenbach Texas - Merle Haggard
Luckenbach Texas - Johnny Russell
Maltby By-Pass - Mick Thomas
Me And Them Three Brothers Of Mine - Tommy Jennings (plus more on his Hey Waylon album)
My Kind of Country - Randy Houser
My Mother's Other Son - Tommy Jennings with Tommy Cash
No Account Cowboy - P C Caulton
No Account Cowboy - Speedy Hampson & Panton Hill Umbrella Club
No Show Jones - George Jones-Merle Haggard
Not Everybody Likes Us - Hank Williams III
Nothing To Say - Brian Burns
One In A Row - Trick Pony
Outlaw And The Stranger - Ed Bruce
Outlaws and Cavaleers - Country Cavaleers
Owe Them More Than That - Kenny Rogers
Prove Me Right - Radney Foster
Put Some Drive In Your Country - Travis Tritt
Put The O Back In Country - Shooter Jennings
Redneck (The Redneck National Anthem) - Vernon Oxford
Roll On Buddy - Wolfgang Malende
Saddle Up - Colt Ford
Santa's Hooked On Country Music - Jimmy Flynn
She Don't Like My Music - Ray Scott
Show Us Your Twang - Rick Sousley
Sing A Song With Waylon - Colt 45 Band
Singing Star's Queen - Johnny Cash
Sixteen Bars From Luckenbach - Rick Sousley
Son Of The South - David Allan Coe
Spokane Motel Blues - Tom T Hall
The Conversation - Shooter Jennings & Holly Williams (Waylon's name isn't mentioned but Shooter refers to him)
That's What The Outlaws In Texas Want To Hear - Johnny Paycheck
The Last Cowboy Song - Ed Bruce
The Outlaw - Ed Bruce
The Ride - David Allan Coe
The Right Place - Aaron Watson
The South's Gonna Rattle Again - Hank Williams Jr
This Texas Wailin's Givin' Me The Willies - Bobby Wayne Loftis
True Life Country Music - Razzy Bailey
Waylon And Willie Machine - Red Sovine
Waylon And Willie Machine - Marvin Rainwater and Jesse Fletcher
Waylon Sing To Mama - Darrell Thomas
Waylon's Guitar - Hank Williams Jr
Waylon's T Shirt - Dick Damron
Waymore's Blues - Ray Wylie Hubbard
We're Still Hangin' In There Ain't We Jessi - Jeannie Seely
What Would Waylon Do - Joe Diffie George Jones
When The Last Cowboy's Gone - Jamey Johnson
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes - George Jones
Willie Waylon And Me - David Allan Coe
Willie, Waylon And Me (Reprise) - David Allan Coe
Willie Why Don't You Sing One With Me - Johnny Chester
You Don't Have To Call Me Darlin' - Merle Haggard (same as You Never Even Called Me By My Name)
You Hung The Moon (Didn't You Waylon) - Jessi Colter
You Never Even Called Me By My Name - David Allan Coe
Young Country - Hank Williams Jr

WAYLON SINGS ABOUT HIMSELF

Luckenbach Texas - Waylon with Willie Nelson
Willon And Waylee - Don Bowman with Waylon and Willie
You Never Even Called Me By My Name - Doug Supernaw with Waylon


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