Country music world rocked by icon’s death. Here’s everyone we lost in 2025

Mark Laws, the drummer for popular country music singer Alex Miller, was shot and killed on May 25 in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Taste of Country reported that Laws’ stepson, Maxwell Madon, has been ...
Whiskey Riff

Waylon Jennings Famously Signed His 1975 CMA ‘Album Of The Year’ Certificate With A NSFW Phrase

Let's just say, it's quite complicated. Waylon Jennings and the Country Music Association have quite a history. And if you don't know about their colorful relationship and are a fan of country music ...
Whiskey Riff

Waylon Jennings Once Accidentally Lit Big Bird On Fire While Filming The 1985 Sesame Street Film, ‘Follow That Bird’

Classic Waylon... The country icon has so many iconic songs, and stories, to his name, and recently, we got to hear some brand new Waylon music on the album Songbird, which is a tracklist full of ...
American Songwriter

Shooter Jennings Confirms a Waylon Jennings Documentary Is in the Works—and That Willie Nelson Is Involved

While releasing new music from his father, Shooter Jennings confirmed that a new documentary about Waylon Jennings is in the works.
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1978, Waylon Jennings Started an 8-Week Run at No. 1 With an Album That Contained an Autobiographical Outlaw Country Classic

Forty-seven years ago today, Waylon Jennings started an eight-week run at the top of the country albums chart.

This Country Music Legend Once Set Big Bird From 'Sesame Street' on Fire

Big Bird barely made it out of the 1980s in one piece. Not only was Sesame Street' s biggest star in talks to ride aboard the ...
NFL

Trick-and-treat TD sends Jennings and McCaffrey into the slime zone

The San Francisco 49ers pull out a trick play double-pass from wide receiver Jauan Jennings to running back Christian McCaffrey that leads to a 49ers touchdown in Super Bowl LVIII on Nickelodeon.