{"id":13335,"date":"2023-02-02T04:01:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/waylon-jennings-interview-part-1-american-singer-songwriter-country-music-outlaw\/"},"modified":"2023-02-02T04:01:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T04:01:03","slug":"waylon-jennings-interview-part-1-american-singer-songwriter-country-music-outlaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/02\/waylon-jennings-interview-part-1-american-singer-songwriter-country-music-outlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Waylon Jennings Interview Part 1, American Singer-Songwriter &amp; Country Music Outlaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Waylon Jennings Interview Part 1, American Singer-Songwriter &amp; Country Music Outlaw\"   width=\"400\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6btFyOxNfgE?cc_load_policy=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and musician, discusses country music&#8217;s history, the Outlaw Movement, his wife Jessi Colter and his book \u201cWaylon\u201d on this episode of NPT\u2019s original literary series A Word on Words with John Seigenthaler. Part 1 of 2, this interview, pulled from NPT&#8217;s archives, was originally filmed in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>? Watch Part 2 of Waylon Jennings interview: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0A1D1ciOSik\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/0A1D1ciOSik<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?? About Country Music: A Nashville Story  ??<br \/>\nCountry Music is Nashville\u2019s story and NPT is dedicated to sharing the many stories that form this unique American art form.<\/p>\n<p>? Learn more about NPT&#8217;s digital first series Country Music: A Nashville Story: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/country-music\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/country-music\/<\/a><br \/>\n? Learn more about Nashville Public Television: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n? Enjoy Country Music: A Nashville Story on any device with the free PBS Video App: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/videoapp\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/videoapp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?? About A Word on Words with John Seigenthaler  ??<br \/>\nIn Nashville Public Television\u2019s A Word on Words, renowned journalist John Seigenthaler held in-depth and informed discussions with writers, historians and others. Guests over the series\u2019 40-year run (1972 to 2013) is impressive and includes Ann Patchett, Billy Collins, Rep. John Lewis, astronaut Alan Shepard and Rodney Crowell.<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s host may have been its most fascinating subject, however. John Seigenthaler served as editor of The Tennessean, founding editor of USA Today, assistant to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and chair of the selection committee for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. He was a passionate advocate of the First Amendment and founded the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>? Learn more about NPT&#8217;s vintage original series A Word on Words with John Seigenthaler: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/a-word-on-words-john-seigenthaler\/\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/a-word-on-words-john-seigenthaler\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?? About NPT ??<br \/>\nNashville Public Television, is Middle Tennessee\u2019s &#038; Southern Kentucky\u2019s local PBS station.<\/p>\n<p>NPT provides, through the power of traditional television and interactive digital communications, quality educational, cultural and civic experiences that address issues and concerns of the people of the Nashville region, and which thereby help improve the lives of those we serve.<\/p>\n<p>WNPT, Nashville&#8217;s independent nonprofit PBS station, is operated by licensee Nashville Public Television, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>? Donate: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/donate\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wnpt.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>?? Chapters  ??<br \/>\n00:00 &#8211; A Word on Words Intro<br \/>\n00:23 &#8211; Introduction of Waylon Jennings&#8217; Book Waylon<br \/>\n02:20 &#8211; Importance of Education<br \/>\n04:45 &#8211; Childhood<br \/>\n06:52 &#8211; Early Role Model<br \/>\n11:04 &#8211; Roots in Music<br \/>\n14:22 &#8211; Single Minded Purpose, Birth of Outlaw Movement<br \/>\n17:55 &#8211; Early Music Carrier, Willie Nelson<br \/>\n20:44 &#8211; Marriages<br \/>\n25:17: &#8211; Marriage to Jessi Colter<br \/>\n27:17 &#8211; A Word on Words Credits<\/p>\n<p>#waylonjennings #countrymusic #outlaws<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6btFyOxNfgE\">source<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waylon Jennings, American singer-songwriter and musician, discusses country music&#8217;s history, the Outlaw Movement, his wife Jessi Colter and his book \u201cWaylon\u201d on this episode of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[153,334,230,263,9466,12,9463,9462,9464,9460,9467,4691,2095,9465,9461],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amp","tag-american","tag-country","tag-interview","tag-jennings","tag-music","tag-nashville-pbs","tag-nashville-public-television","tag-nashville-public-tv","tag-npt","tag-outlaw","tag-part","tag-singersongwriter","tag-waylon","tag-wnpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}