Newton County Jail Blotter for Oct. 19, 2012

Newton County Jail Blotter for Oct. 19, 2012
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Alexander Ramone Jennings, 44, 50 McGiboney Place, possession of cocaine, no tail lights, driving without a license, contempt of court.– Phillip Clay Jones … Jessie Waylon Taylor, 25, 620 Mountainside Villas, Helen, probation violation. — Phillipe … Read more on newtoncitizen

Waylon Jennings – I’ve Always Been Crazy – 1984 – This is my very favorite Waylon Jennings session from August 7, 1984, appearing on a superb DVD by New West Records from 2004 in my possession. As an example here I like to share with you the encore performance of JW’s own “I’ve Always Been Crazy”. Enjoy! I fully agree with the review by Mark Deming in AllMusic about this DVD: Once upon a time, Waylon Jennings was one of the hardest partying men in country music (no small statement), but by the time he appeared on PBS’s long-running music series Austin City Limits in 1984, Jennings asked that his taping take place at 11 am, which would have been closer to his bedtime during his years as country’s number one outlaw. A newly cocaine-fee Waylon plays “I Can Get off on You” early in this set, which contains his complete set from that KLRU-TV taping, and the man sounds tough and committed throughout a fast-paced show, during which he runs through 14 songs in less than 40 minutes and displays his trademark ability to sound energetic and laid-back at the same time. Waylon was always an artist of glorious contradictions, and a number of them are clearly audible on Live from Austin TX; for a man who looked, sounded, and lived like a badass, he was always at his best wearing his heart on his sleeve on broken-hearted numbers like “It’s Not Supposed to Be That Way” and “Dreaming My Dream with You,” and while he was famous for his rowdy, hard-living ways, he was perfectly comfortable singing “Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got …