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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings' career nearly ended before it began when, as Buddy Holly's bass player, he narrowly escaped being in the 1959 plane crash that killed Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, when he gave up his seat to someone else at the last minute. From Littlefield, Texas, Jennings learned to play guitar when he was eight and first appeared on his local radio station at 12, going on to lead his own band the Texas Longhorns and dropping out of school to pursue his musical ambitions. Moving to Lubbock he met Holly, who arranged Jennings' first recording session when he laid do...