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Turtles all the way down

Waylon Jennnings is alive - at least this is what comes to mind, when listening to the current 2014-album of Sturgill Simpson ! It is stunning, how the critically acclaimed singer from Kentucky sounds, if you are familiar with the legend of Waylon Jennings . Just close your eyes and you are inclined to believe, you are listening to a lost Wayon song from the 1970s. In February of 2002 Waylon Jennings died from diabetes complications at the age of 64. It would cleary fill more than one blog entry to discuss the life of the famous country outlaw. But I guess anyone who has ever paid some attention to country music, will have run across the man, who so often gets mentioned alongside Willie Nelson . Not only because the two had become friends, but also because both of them had bravely turned their backs on Nashville in the 1970s and gone to Texas to create their own brand of Country Music, influenced by the Hippie-Folk-Rock sounds around then and there. In May of 2014 the vir