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Would it surpise anyone to know that Leonard Cohen is a very committed head-shaved, black-robed zen monk? He is a disciple of the Rinzai zen master, Sasaki Joshu.

I like Cohen's novel Beautiful Losers as much as his recordings. Buffy Sainte-Marie adapted one of the passages for her album, Illuminations.

No JL not surprised at all, he cares about the world. A friend in England (an Irish man with a heavy accent) send me four cds, three on Leonard Cohen, and one of Ash "Free All Angels. I'm glad he introduced me to him. LC also has a sexy voice. My favorite cd is The Future.

One Night

( D. Bartholomew - P. King)


One night with you
Is what I'm now praying for
The things that we two could plan
Would make my dreams come true

Just call my name
And I'll be right by your side
I want your sweet helping hand
My loves too strong to hide

Always lived, very quiet life
I ain't never did no wrong
Now I know that life without you
Has been too lonely too long

One night with you
Is what I'm now praying for
The things that we two could plan
Would make my dreams come true

Always lived, very quiet life
I ain't never did no wrong
Now I know that life without you
Has been too lonely too long

One night with you
Is what I'm now praying for
The things that we two could plan
Would make my dreams come true

Good morning, WA2K radio.

Nice to see JL here with more interesting information about Leonard Cohen who rather looks like Bob Dylan.(when he has hair, of course)

This is my quiet time, and I am thinking how slowly the sun rises now.

edgar's "One Night" reminds me of the morning after:

(As recorded by Maureen McGovern)
AL KASHA
JOEL HIRSCHHORN

There's got to be a morning after
If we can hold on thru the night
We have a chance to find the sunshine
Let's keep on looking for the light.

Oh can't you see the morning after?
It's waiting right outside the storm
Why don't we cross the bridge together
And find the place that's safe and warm.

It's not too late, we should be giving
Only with love can we climb
It's not too late, not while we're living
Let's put our hands out in time.

There's got to be a morning after
We're moving closer to the shore
I know we'll be there by tomorrow
And we'll escape the darkness
We won't be searching anymore.

There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning)



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Waylon Jennings

Waylon Jennings (June 15,1937 - February 13, 2002) was a respected and influential American country music singer and guitarist, born in Littlefield, Texas.

Biography

Texas Panhandle

Growing up in the abject poverty of the Dust Bowl, a young Waylon Jennings sought to escape the dirt roads of Littlefield. He began singing at an early age, winning a spot singing and playing guitar on a local radio show. He became a popular DJ for several Texas radio stations, and a musical performer on the early rock and roll performance circuit in Texas, alongside the likes of fellow Texans Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly. In 1956, he married Maxine Lawrence.

Buddy Holly

After Holly achieved national stardom, he offered to produce Waylon's first records. Though neither of the first two recordings had much success, it was the beginning of a short but influential friendship with the rockabilly legend. Holly asked Waylon to join his touring band playing bass guitar, an offer Waylon accepted despite the fact that he did not know how to play bass. They embarked on a nationwide tour riddled with difficulties, including a tour bus without heat that repeatedly stalled in the cold weather.

On the night of February 3, 1959 (The Day the Music Died) the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. Richardson (aka The Big Bopper) crashed outside of Mason City, Iowa, killing all passengers. Waylon had given his seat to Richardson, who had a cold and desperately needed rest. In his 1996 autobiography, Waylon admitted for the first time that in the years afterward, he felt severe feelings of guilt and responsibility for the crash. After Waylon gave up his seat, Holly had jokingly told Jennings that he hoped the tour bus would stall. Jennings replied, with equal jocularity, that he hoped the plane would crash.

Phoenix

After several years of inactivity, Jennings began performing again, this time in Phoenix, Arizona. In these years of 2 and 3 shows a night, sometimes 6 nights a week, he developed a unique sound, a devoted following, and a decent living. He signed a contract with Herb Alpert's newly formed A&M Records, and he had a few hit singles on local radio in Phoenix, including "Four Strong Winds" (by Ian Tyson) and "Just To Satisfy You" (co-written with Don Bowman). Bobby Bare did his own cover of "Four Strong Winds" after hearing Waylon's version, and Bare later recommended Waylon to legendary country music guitarist and producer Chet Atkins, who signed Waylon to RCA Records. He packed up and moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1965.

The Nashville Sound

Jennings was accustomed to performing and recording with his own band, a practice that was taboo in the Nashville recording studios. The characteristic sound he had developed in Phoenix was further diminished by the typical post-production "sweetening" of recordings with string arrangements and other overdubs. Jennings released a series of singles and albums with RCA, but there were no runaway successes. He felt limited by the "Nashville Sound", the customary low payment, and the lack of artistic freedom in the 1960s country music industry.

During this time, Jennings began using amphetamines while touring. He quickly became addicted, like many other country artists of the period, including his one-time roommate Johnny Cash. His second marriage, to Lynne Jones, ended in a 1967 divorce suit that left the already broke singer economically crippled. He married for a third time to Barbara Rood, who tried to get Waylon's finances under control. Her efforts caused great resentment within Waylon's band, and the marriage ended in divorce shortly thereafter. He married for the fourth and final time to country singer Jessi Colter in 1969.

Willie Nelson, another Texas native who had come to Nashville before him, retired from the music industry and left Nashville in the late 1960s. Nelson had cautioned Jennings not to leave his steady job as a popular performer in Phoenix for Nashville, but Jennings had not heeded his advice. By the beginning of the 1970s, saddled with a $250,000 debt to his record company and others, Jennings had become almost hopeless with the prospect of success in Nashville. A 1972 bout with hepatitis almost killed him, and he seriously considered retiring from music as Nelson had done.

Outlaw Country

Two things came along to turn Jennings' hard times around; the first was a business manager from New York named Neil Reshen, and the second was Waylon's old friend Willie Nelson. Reshen approached Jennings, still recovering from hepatitis, and offered to renegotiate his recording and touring contracts. Jennings agreed, and the contract renegotiation began in earnest. At a 1972 meeting in a Nashville airport, Jennings introduced Reshen to Nelson; by the end of the meeting, Reshen was manager to both Waylon and Willie.

RCA had dropped Nelson, but by 1972 he had returned to the music industry under the auspices of Atlantic Records, and was on his way to music superstardom. Now based in Austin, Texas, Nelson had made inroads into the rock and roll press by attracting a diverse fan base that included the young rock music audience. Atlantic Records had signed Nelson when the time was right, and they were looking to sign Jennings as well. Nelson' rise to popularity made RCA nervous about losing another hot artist, which gave Jennings the leverage he needed in his contract renegotiaions. Reshen drove a hard bargain, but RCA finally agreed to his terms: a $75,000 advance and near-complete artistic control. Renegotiations of his touring contracts yielded similar positive results, and began turning a profit from his touring (almost unheard-of in Nashville at that time). Waylon finally had a rock star recording contract, and he looked the part; Reshen had advised him to keep the beard he had grown in the hospital, in order to cultivate a more rock and roll image.

In 1972, RCA issued Ladies Love Outlaws, an album that Jennings never wanted released. Nevertheless, the title track is often considered the first song of the outlaw country movement. He followed this album with Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes in 1973, the first albums recorded and released under his own creative control. The albums were huge commercial and critical successes. More hit albums followed, with The Ramblin' Man and This Time in 1974 and Dreaming My Dreams in 1975. The pace of recording and performing was lucrative but grueling. At some point in the 1970s, Jennings switched from amphetamines to cocaine, consuming thousands of dollars worth every day.

In 1976, Jennings began his career-defining collaborations with Willie Nelson on the compilation album Wanted: The Outlaws!, country's first platinum record. The following year, RCA issued "Ol' Waylon", an album that produced another huge hit duet with Nelson, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)".Waylon and Willie followed in 1978, producing their biggest hit with "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys". He released I've Always Been Crazy in 1978, followed with a greatest hits album in 1979.

By the early 1980s, Jennings was a hollow-eyed, wraithlike man tormented by addiction to cocaine. His personal finances had again unraveled, leaving him bankrupt. His work became less focused, and his tours had progressed into full rock and roll excesses. In a widely publicized case, he was arrested in 1977 for cocaine possession by federal agents, though the charges were later dropped. The episode was recounted in Jennings' song "Don't Y'all Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand?"

Addiction and Recovery

Jennings decided that it was finally time to clean up, at least for a little while. He underwent the detox process, intending to start using cocaine again in a more controlled fashion afterward. By Waylon's own admission in interviews, his son Shooter Jennings was the main inspiration to stay off of cocaine permanently. His later life was plagued with health problems likely related to his long cocaine addiction, including a heart attack and diabetes. Despite these problems, Jennings remained free from cocaine and continued recording and touring throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

Later Years

Outside of the music industry, Jennings was also known as the voice of the narrator on the popular television series The Dukes of Hazzard. The theme song "Good Ol' Boys", an original Jennings composition, is one of the most well known television theme songs in American television history. He also made an appearance on Married With Children.

In the mid-1980s, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Nelson, and Jennings formed a successful group called The Highwaymen. Aside from his work with The Highwaymen, highlights from his own career include WWII with Willie Nelson in 1982, Will The Wolf Survive in 1985, and Too Dumb For New York City, Too Ugly For L.A. in 1992.

He released his autobiography, Waylon, in 1996.

1998 saw Waylon joining another country supergroup, Old Dogs, with Bobby Bare, Jerry Reed, Mel Tillis, and songwriter Shel Silverstein. They released one album, Old Dogs, recorded live in the studio.

He had his left foot removed and replaced with a wheel prior to his death

In February 2002, Waylon Jennings died due to complications from diabetes in Chandler, Arizona and is interred in the Mesa City Cemetery, Mesa, Arizona.




Looking At A Heart That Needs A Home Lyrics
Artist(Band):Waylon Jennings



I'm just a stranger in this town I'm just a drifter looking round
I might stay a lifetime or a week it all depends if I'll find what I seek
You're looking at a heart that needs a home and a little girl to love me and me alone
One who wants a gentleman and accepts me like I am
You're looking at a heart that needs a home
[ guitar ]
I thought I had found her many times but love preserves the right to change its mind
I guess perhaps my ways are strange but without this cast I can't change
You're looking at a heart...
You're looking at a heart that needs a home

from Marty Robbins

I got a hundred and sixty acres in the valley
Got a hundred and sixty acres of the best
Got an old stove there that'll cook three square
And a bunk where I can lay me down to rest.

Up at dawn to greet the sun
I've forgotten what a care or worry means
Head for home when day is done
With my pocket money jinglin' in my jeans.
I´ve got a hundred and sixty acres full of sunshine
Got a hundred and sixty million stars above
Got an old paint hoss, I'm the guy who's boss
On the hundred and sixty acres that I love!

Up at dawn to greet the sun
I´ve forgotten what a care or worry means
Head for home when day is done
With my pocket money jinglin' in my jeans.

I´ve got a hundred and sixty acres full of sunshine
Got a hundred and sixty million stars above
Got an old paint hoss, I'm the guy who's boss
On the hundred and sixty acres that I love!
Got an old paint hoss, I'm the guy who's boss
On the hundred and sixty acres that I love!

Thanks, Bob, for that musical background on Waylon Jennings. Very sad, especially the quip about the plane crash. It must have haunted him.

Thought for Today: ``Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.'' - O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), American author (1862-1910).



06/14/05 20:00

Good Morning WA2K.
Great Bios, as usual, Bob. The first time I saw Waylon (if I recall correctly) was on an Ed Sullivan show singing "This House Goes on Sale Every Monday morning and taken off the market in the afternoon" (a Peter, Paul and Mary song) and I was sold on him. Bought a slew of his records. Saw him on stage at what once was a movie theatre, and with the exception of the hooting and hollering in the audience, thought the show was great.

And Grieg - after hearing the Broadway recording "Song of Norway", I went on a Grieg record binge.

Some more June 15 Birthday celebs:

1843 Edvard Grieg, pianist/composer/conductor (Bergen, Norway; died 1907)
1914 Yuri Andropov, Soviet leader (Nagutskaya, Caucasus; died 1984)
Saul Steinberg, artist/cartoonist (Romanic-Sarat, Romania; died 1999)
1922 Morris Udall, AZ congressman (St. John's, AZ; died 1998)
1932 Mario Cuomo, former NY governor (Queens, NY)
1937 Waylon Jennings, country singer (Littlefield, TX), died 2002
1941 Harry Nilsson [Johnny Niles], singer/songwriter (Everybody's Talkin' Bout Me (Midnight Cowboy)
1942 Xaveria Hollander [DeVries], Surabaya Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker)
1946 Jim Varney Lexington KY, "Hey Vern", actor (Ernest Goes to Jail)
1954 Jim Belushi, actor (Chicago, IL)
1957 Brett Butler, baseball player (Los Angeles, CA)
1958 Wade Boggs, baseball player (Omaha, NE)
1963 Helen Hunt, actress (Los Angeles, CA)
1964 Courtney Cox, actress (Birmingham, AL)
1969 Ice Cube, rapper (Los Angeles, CA)
1973 Neil Patrick Harris, actor (Albuquerque, NM)

Waylon Jennings


Harry Nillson (Midnight Cowboy)Composer, Fred Neil

Everybody's talkin' at me
I don't hear a word their sayin'
Only the echos of my mind
People stop and stare
I can't see their faces
Only the shadows of their eyes

I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin'
Through the pourin' rain
Goin where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin off of the northeast winds
Sailin on summer breeze
And skippin over the ocean like a stone
I'm goin' where the sun keeps shinin'
Through the pourin' rain
Goin where the weather suits my clothes
Bankin off of the northeast winds
Sailin on summer breeze
And skippin over the ocean like a stone

Everybody's talkin' at me
Can't hear a word their sayin'
Only the echos of my mind
I won't let you leave my love behind
No i won't let you leave
I won't let you leave my love behind

and if you'd like to hear one of Nillson's really sad, but popular in its day, songs:

http://www.jadedj.com/j3/withoutyou/

Good morning aggie. Grieg supplied my ex's name Solveig. One section of In the Halls of the Mountain King is "Solveig's Song". Her father was a stage manager in Helsinki, Finland and that song was one of his favorites.

Thanks, Raggedy and Bob, for the celebs and the background.

Isn't Ice Cube the guy who plays in Law and Order, special victims unit?

He is a great actor, and I enjoy watching him, but that show is quite depressing to me.

Later, I will follow your connection to the Nillson sad stuff, but I'm still a little woozy from lack of sleep.

Station break:
This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

here's a news bulletin from AP:

LARGO, Fla. - An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband's contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind, the medical examiner's office said Wednesday. It also found no evidence that she was strangled or otherwise abused.

to read the whole story on yahoo, click here:

postscript: the finding that Terri Schiavo was blind is especially significant, because her parents' supporters made much ado over a video that supposedly showed her following a balloon with her eyes.

Yit, thanks for that update on Terry. I think most folks here knew all along that her parents were just enjoying the limelight, not that they didn't feel grief, but people under pressure do strange things.

Well, listeners here's a song for our graduates:

Value Pac
» Graduation Day

Today is the greatest day of our young lives
I look back at what I've known for so long
today is the day we leave our past behind
today we say our last goodbyes
memories in the back of my mind
held close by until the day that I die
good luck my friends make it to the end
I wish you all the best until we meet again
i can't believe it seems like yesterday
just kids and now it's time to grow up
that thought makes me feel sick now I want to cry
seperated(sic) for the rest of our lives
I don't know why it turned out this way
we always thought things would work out OK
now I see everybody telling me what I must be
when all I want to do is go back in time with you
today is the saddest day of our young lives
today we go our separate ways
the sky's the limit for each one of us
make good with everything you've got

Throw those mortar boards in the air and listen to Pomp and Circumstance.

Ice Cube is a rapper turned actor who has appeared in many popular movies, including: Boyz N the Hood, Players Club, Friday, Next Friday, Barbershop, All About the Benjamins, Barbershop 2, and most recently, xXx.



You are thinking of Ice T, another rapper turned actor who has also appeared in many movies, most notably Tank Girl, and Johnny Mnemonic, as well as Law & Order: SVU.

Thanks, Tico. I get them cool people confused sometimes. <smile>

Hey, what's this I hear about you wanting to do away with tenure for us teachers? tsk! tsk! Welcome back to our studio, however.

Hmmm. We're missing Europe again, but I'm certain they'll be back.

Are you asking me? That doesn't sound like a position I've taken recently, but then, it is hard to keep track ....

No, Tico. Just making a pun on your avatar, but Arnie has not been too popular lately in California.

Well, listeners, we do have a bit of fun here on WA2K radio. Stay tuned because there are more special features coming up.

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