biography
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| (1937–2002)
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| biography:
| Country-rock singer and songwriter, born in Littlefield, Texas, USA. Originally a disc jockey, he played with Buddy Holly in the 1950s and as a sole performer in the 1960s. In the 1970s he and Willie Nelson championed the ‘outlaw movement’ of country music, breaking away from the commercialism of Nashville; their Wanted! The Outlaws (1976) was the first country album to sell a million copies. Jennings continued to enjoy steady success with records and performances through the 1980s and 1990s, sometimes teamed with Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson; he appeared in the films Nashville Rebel (1966) and MacKintosh and TJ (1975), and narrated the television series ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ (1979–85). He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001. |
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