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Lyrics : Luckenbach, Texas

There only two things in life that make it worth livin'
That's guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women
I don't need my name in the marquis lights
I got my song and I got you with me tonight
Maybe it's time we got back to the basics of love

Chorus:
Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain

So baby let's sell your diamond ring
Buy some boots and faded jeans and go away
This coat and tie is choking me
In your high socitey you cry all day
We've been so busy keepin' up with the Jones
Four car garage and we're still building on
Maby it's time we got back to the basics of love

Chorus:
Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain

Let's go to Luckenbach Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys
This successful life we're livin' got us fueding
like the Hatfield and McCoys
Between Hank Williams pain songs, Newberry's train songs
and blue eyes cryin' in the rain out in Luckenbach Texas
ain't nobody feelin' no pain
 

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Waylon Jennings Quotes

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

 

2012 Show Agenda

“The Waylon Fund” Set Up for Diabetes Research

On February 13, 2002, Waylon Jennings, one of the great country music Outlaws, passed away due to complications from diabetes. Now a Phoenix-based organization called The Translational Genomics Research Institute, or TGen, along with the Waylon Jennings Estate, have partnered to set up The Waylon Fund to support state-of-the-art investigations into the genetic and genomic origins of diabetes —a disease that afflicts nearly 26 million Americans.

“What better way to honor the man?” says Dean Ballard, Assistant Director of Development at TGen, and one of the principals behind the idea. “For me, the inspiration really comes from the music first. Being a rock ‘n’ roll kid from Detroit, it was only a matter of time before my friends and I would discover the music of Waylon Jennings and his Outlaw cohorts. So, when the opportunity came to raise funds for diabetes research in honor of one of my heroes, I jumped at the chance. So, The Waylon Fund is a perfect marriage of my love for Waylon’s music and my job as a fund-raiser. It’s really been a dream come true for me to work with Jessi Colter and to actually become friends with her.”

The idea was first hatched in November of 2010, at a Shooter Jennings and Jessi Colter concert at The Rhythm Room in Phoenix that Dean Ballard attended.

“My friend, Bobby Emmett, who at the time played keyboards in Shooter’s band, sent me an email inviting me and my wife down to the show.  I first met Shooter, who’s a real down-to-earth guy. The conversation originally began with him about this idea of raising money for diabetes research in honor of Waylon. But, of course, Jessi had to give her approval, which she did right away and the process began.”

Many entities throughout the music world have already lent their support to the project, including Universal Music Publishing, BMI, The Center for Texas Music History, and lots of local record stores like the Ernest Tubb Record Shops, and Grimey’s in Nashville. There’s also plans in the works for some Waylon Fund benefit concerts. Saving Country Music is honored to throw our support behind the project as well.