The Highwaymen | How Waylon Jennings Started the Outlaw Movement | American Masters

TRANSCRIPT Turner: The Outlaw movement was started by Waylon and Willie. More so Waylon because he was the first one to say, 'Hey, I'm not gonna do things the normal way.' He said, 'I'm gonna do them my way.'

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Turner: The Outlaw movement was started by Waylon and Willie.

More so Waylon because he was the first one to say, 'Hey, I'm not gonna do things the normal way.'

He said, 'I'm gonna do them my way.'

Jennings: So one time Willie was in town, and I said, 'Willie, come on. Let's go cut an album.'

I said, 'I want to cut this album, but,' I said, 'I've got it ready.'

You know, he had a couple songs, and I said, 'I want you to play guitar on it, and let's have some fun with it.'

And I went over, and I cut the album 'This Time.'

When I got through with it, I took it to the record company, and they said, 'Oh, that's wonderful.

Now we got to go in the studio and cut it.'

And I said, 'No.'

I said, 'That's all you got.'

So they tried every way in the world, even tried to get them to allow this one to be released, and finally, they released it.

And that more or less broke the system in this town where the record companies own the studios.

Turner: I think anybody that has any artistic freedom in their contracts and record deals today owe that to Waylon Jennings.

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