Watch: Waylon Jennings Play His Final Concert at Ryman Auditorium in 2000

THE FINAL YEARS OF WAYLON JENNINGS WERE A SLOW SURRENDER — AND THAT'S WHAT MADE THEM HONEST By the time his final years arrived, Waylon Jennings had nothing left to prove. The outlaw movement, the Highwaymen, sixteen No. 1 country singles — that work was done. What remained was harder to watch. Decades of cocaine, six packs of cigarettes a day, and a body that had been pushed past every limit. He quit cocaine in 1984. Quit smoking in 1988, the same year he had heart bypass surgery. But the damag

Waylon Jennings, Buddy Holly and 'The Day the Music Died'

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