Born June 15, 1937, Waylon Jennings would be 85 today. He began playing the guitar by the age of eight and performed on the radio by the time he was twelve.
for lewis hamilton s team, took it down to the wire as they won the final round, held in dorset. but taylor and kristofferson picked up the fourth place that they needed to win the overall title by virtue of having won more races. team owner nico rosberg joined in the celebrations, having beaten his former f1 team mate to the championship. britain s harry charles triumped in the world cup qualifier at the london international horse show two decades after his dad won the famous class. harry beat a top class field with a super fast jump off time on stardust. the 22 year old s dad is peter charles who was part of britain s gold medal winning team at the 2012 olympics. that s all from sportsday. we ll have more throughout the evening, for now it s finding a forever family on the bbc news channel.
play. emmylou harris says, if you want to hear about country music, get a merle haggard album. put it on a track, any track, and you will learn what country music is. your playlist, which is available on the interwebs to the folks watching tonight, is so extraordinary. tumbling tumbleweeds, by the way, michake nesmith has an excellent remix. patsy cline singing crazy. emmy lou, waylan, kristofferson. you mentioned roseanne cash, and her masterpiece, seven-year ache. if you hadn t done pancho and lefty, i would have lost hope. our entire seventh episode resolves around pancho and lefty moving through the snake of
l.a. that s where the record companies were. and there s lots of sun. the way i got to california was just really simple. i got there in a 57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. virtually nobody was from southern california. they re all drawn to the light. and the light is the troubadour club. things happened gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles. it holds 250 people. it just happened on the first night. every great songwriter came through the troubadour, jackson brown, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstadt, kristofferson, joni mitchell, james taylor. the big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. is it difficult to reveal yourself constantly to so many people? why do you have to do this? i feel an obligation to myself and to people to try and share myself. maybe as honestly as i can. i left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind
by the way, i wanted to tell you michael nesmith has an excellent remake of that song worth a listen. hank williams. patsy cline singing crazy, willie nelson s opus. emmylou, merle. girl from north country, bravo. kristofferson, bravo. you mentioned the essential, the elegant roseanne cash and her masterpiece seven year ache. and if you hadn t done poncho and lefty i would have lost hope. if you hadn t our entire seventh episode revolved around poncho and lefty moving through the snake of country music and ending up starting with townes van zandt and going through all these permutations and at the end of our longest episode, which is over two hours and feels like our shortest one, you end up with it being sung again and the journey that it takes. we have one of the longest sentences we ve ever written in our 40 years of making films, which dayton wrote, as beautiful