Waylon Jennings

Singer, songwriter, good old boy, and cowboy supreme “Ol’ Waylon” appeared in several television Westerns with his good buddies Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson including the 1986 remake of Stagecoach and the made-for- television film, Outlaw Justice. Jennings also appeared in the Mel Gibson-James Garner big screen version of Maverick, wrote and performed the title tracks for Roy Rogers’ last film, Mackintosh and TJ and TV’s Dukes of Hazard series.

Jennings began his career playing guitar with Buddy Holly and recorded 60 albums and had 16 number-one records on the country charts. Waylon Jennings died of diabetes-related complications on February 13, 2002.

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Western film and television shows helped shape the moral values of many people in this country. Children grew up watching Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and many other heroes of the silver screen following the "Code of the West." The battle of wrong vs. right was the theme of virtually every Western movie and television show, and the right always prevailed.

Wildest Westerns is a Western magazine that is dedicated to revisiting those "thrilling tales of yesteryear" in the articles, interviews, reviews, and photos on our magazine pages. Some of America's most respected and remembered heroes and villains came from these Western genres. It is our hope that this Western magazine will awaken the memories in your heart, and also help bring to light the values of the Western to those who didn't have the benefit of knowing these wonderful heroes and villains. We will always remember them, and would like to say "Thank You" to all the actors, actresses, directors, producers, studios, and all the unsung heroes behind the scenes that brought us the Western.