This item will be available at the store on Saturday, April 20th, 2013, and online on Sunday, April 21st, if any remain. Mail order requests will be filled first-come, first-served, while supplies last. We will make every effort to fill all orders, but as supplies are extremely limited, we cannot guarantee all online orders will be filled. We reserve the right to limit orders to one of each item per customer. Prices subject to change. Rhett recalls Waylon Jennings as a cordial man and a consummate professional. The elder country musician initially wanted to begin recording at eight thirty in the morning, an hour at which The Old 97′s were not accustomed to being conscious. “Now, I can wrap my head around that,” says Miller. “But back then, I could not believe that a rock and roll guy wanted to start a session at eight thirty in the morning. We compromised at ten thirty and I think the band still felt like we were being tortured.” Throughout the day, the band peppered him with questions about backing Buddy Holly on electric bass, all of which Jennings happily fielded, and watched him choke up as he discussed his last words to Holly and the plane crash that ensued. At the time Jennings recorded with the Old 97’s, he was already in poor health. Only 59 years old, he had already had heart surgery. Not long after the recording session, Jennings was back in the hospital. The two songs were still ready for released, but when Waylon was shown the artwork, a saintly Jennings surrounded by four angels with The Old 97′s faces, he didn’t like it. Rhett believes Jennings was a little “freaked out” by the afterlife imagery, given he was examining it from a hospital bed. The Old 97′s didn’t want to move forward without Jennings’ approval, so they shelved the recordings. Although Jennings began playing again, he passed away in 2002 and that one day session remained vaulted.