Waylon had started out playing bass for Buddy Holly, though this gig was bought to an abrupt end by that fateful plane crash. Jennings was supposed to be on the flight but gave up his seat.
Waylon had been slogging it out releasing albums throughout the 60s. For Honky Tonk Heroes he took on production duties too, stripping away many of the trappings common to country records at the time. Over top of this stripped-down music bed he laid his vocals, ranging from intimate croons to mighty bellows, but without the layers of harmonies and extraneous instrumentation often found in the genre up till that point.
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