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âYou have to have some charm to play classic country â you have to have respect for your instrument,â says Shannon McNally, who is talking to me on the phone about her new full-length
The Waylon Sessions. The album features songs written and recorded by the great outlaw-country singer Waylon Jennings. Iâm catching up with McNally as sheâs making her way up I-55 out of Jackson, Miss., where sheâs played a show, back home to Nashville by way of Memphis.
I think I get what sheâs telling me about charm. Indeed, McNally found her own way to perform the Jennings songs that make up her latest album. McNally and I trade travel notes about the impossibility of splitting the right angle to save time between Jackson and Nashville, and you can tell she knows the territory. She lived in New Orleans and Mississippi before moving to Nashville in 2017. As I tell her,
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“I have always loved his defiantly existential but immediately accessible common man’s music and how it boogies,” says
Shannon McNally of the man whose timeless music is the subject of her new album THE WAYLON SESSIONS, Waylon Jennings. Upon the album’s completion, McNally’s collection of tunes ended up being not so much a tribute as it is a recontextualization; a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero-masculinity. “The world has changed a lot since these songs were first recorded,” says McNally. “I have never heard a woman sing any of them, but these tunes are poignant and relevant to me and to women in general right now.”
Richie Albright, Waylon Jennings Longtime Drummer, Dead at 81
Richie Albright, Waylon Jennings Longtime Drummer, Dead at 81
A member of Jennings band the Waylors since 1964, he is essential to the story of Waylon, who referred to Albright as my right hand
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Richie Albright, who manned the drum kit for Waylon Jennings since the Sixties and was essential to the Outlaw country trailblazer’s signature rock-based sound, died suddenly Tuesday in Nashville. He was 81. A rep for Shooter Jennings, with whom Albright toured up until 2017, confirmed Albright’s death to
Rolling Stone.
An Oklahoma native, Albright joined Jennings’ backing band the Waylors in 1964 in Arizona, and the group developed a fan base at the Tempe nightspot J.D.’s. Jennings’ first album, in fact, was named after the club,
Best Country Music Albums of All Time
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Ray Price messed around with rhythm, Willie Nelson veered into jazzy realms, and modern country artists such as Eric Church and Sam Hunt meld rock and R&B with country flavors. The genre has continued to expand to feature new subgenres such as country trap perhaps the most well-known song to fit into this genre is Lil Nas X s Old Town Road. Country has gone by several different names. Country musician Harlan Howard pegged it as three chords and the truth, while others have described it as the music of heartache or line dancing. Besides having various names, country music is also a genre that welcomes the reinventing of existing songs as much as it embraces the writing of new ones.