I loves me some Waylon Jennings.

When I was about 13 years old my dad bought a brand new, brown Chevy four-wheel drive pickup that came complete with a cassette player. Cassette decks didn’t come standard in vehicles in 1983 (at least not in Chevy pickups) and, as I recall, I was instrumental in convincing Dad to have the cassette player added.

In order to have something to play in it, he bought a cassette of the Waylon album “It’s Only Rock And Roll.” I don’t know why he picked that particular record. I don’t remember him particularly being a music fan, though my parents did have a bunch of LPs and I remember some Johnny Cash 8-tracks getting some play at our house. I had a few LPs and some cassettes, but they were mostly top-40 type stuff. I have fond memories of owning the J. Geils Band’s “Freeze Frame.” My favorite song was “Piss on the Wall”, for obvious reasons. I also had the Kool and the Gang cassette with “Celebration” on it.