It wasn't Richie buddy and the big bopper too, the pilot was untrained so maybe it was his

WAYLON didn't change the sound or soul of country music so much as he changed the idea of being your own boss and not letting record companies change who you and your music are. Own your own music. That's how they got named the Outlaws. I got to see this interview from mere feet away. AWESOME concert. It was April 1995.

Did you have a chance to speak to him about Merle Haggard? There is a rumour that the two didn't like each other. I wonder if there was any reason behind this?

@@bsnf-5 I never spoke to him at all about Haggard but it is true that Waylon never felt quite the same about Haggard after a certain event took place. The story is in Waylon's book. I will try to give the Cliff notes version. While traveling to a gig in two separate vehicles, Waylon drives up on a wreck with police on the scene. He quickly realized it is the pickup truck with a sleeper camper top over the cab that Ritchie Albright and two other band members were in. This was to be the first gig for his new bass player. Unfortunately that poor guy is who was in the sleeper. The other player that was driving somehow didn't make a turn exactly right and struck the bridge in such a way that it smashed the sleeper section over the truck cab sending his new bass player's body into the river. Albright actually jumped in to save him but the poor guy never knew what hit him. He was dead before he hit the water. So this was a terrible tragedy but the show must go on. I think I'm telling it right that Charley Pride's bass player filled in on the date. Waylon didn't really drink much and was more of an upper guy taking speed in those days...but he was so upset that he got wasted. While completely blitzed out of his mind Haggard who was on the date and Fuzzy Owens got Waylon in a poker game and cleaned him out of every dime he had on him which was several thousand dollars. Waylon had considered him a friend prior to that, but after that night he had a hell of a lot less respect for him. Apparently there is even more to the story according to someone I know personally that was very close to Waylon. He says he will tell me about it the next time I see him. If he says I can divulge any of it I will try to expand on it.

@@waylonvids Thank you, I appreciate the time and effort you took to write the story. I find it very interesting and I really would like to know if there is anything more to the story. But even leaving it at what you wrote, I am extremely grateful and happy that I can hear this from a person who met Waylon in person.

You are absolutely right. But the thing that remains consistent throughout the genre is the storytelling and the straightforward vocal approach. Even when the style is hybrid and the chord structures lean more toward another genre, I always know I'm listening to a Country Song by the way the lyrics flow and the way they're expressed vocally.

Absolutely.

yeah maybe if Robert had more testosterone in his veins

He meant in Pop Music. Pop artists weren't principal writers on their own albums then. The industry was still a writer/publisher scene and the artist's role was to put those songs over to the public and make hits out of them. All of the people you named were Rhythm and Blues artists and the big Publishers were not giving them songs because they didn't even see Rhythm and Blues as a real genre (they were still called it Race Music). That's why R&B artists wrote for themselves. And the Blues artists always wrote for themselves. He's talking about in that circle of up and coming Pop artists, none of the artists were given the privilege to write; and Buddy Holly helped change that so that the artists gout

@@UncleDuTheWatchman yes,you're right, I can't say I hadn't thought about it before, but I hadn't thought about it for a while.