Also he played with Buddy Holly and the Crickets. So he started in Rock & Roll.

Posted by Andrew on Monday, 01/7/2013 @ 11:42am

If Cat Stevens gets into the rock hall, then Waylon belongs for sure. Some of his music is Southern Rock and has more roots in Rock and Roll than 80% of the acts they let in these days.

Posted by Shooter on Tuesday, 12/17/2013 @ 16:43pm

Waylon and Willie should be put in. They have done as much for music country and rock as anybody.

Posted by joe on Wednesday, 07/22/2015 @ 04:07am

If it wasn't for Waylon's influence on music for all musicians the industry would control all artists instead of artist being in control of their music

Posted by Larry on Sunday, 09/4/2016 @ 10:59am

He started out in THE CRICKETS and if he didn't have a cold so he didn't want to fly he would have been in the plane that killed his band leader, BUDDY HOLLY! Nuff said!

Posted by J Klapper on Tuesday, 11/14/2017 @ 09:49am

More importantly, he is credited with starting the Outlaw movement when he had an artist control clause put in his record contract.

Posted by Zuzu on Tuesday, 11/14/2017 @ 11:21am

It's insane that Waylon Jennings one of the greatest voices that America has produced is not in the rock n roll hall of fame. Out of all the country artist in the rock n roll hall of fame he was the most rock n roll out of them all. The man has the voice the music and the credentials . He pretty much helped start southern rock and the cowboy chic fashions of the 1970s. Cowboy hats. Tecova boots.

Posted by John on Wednesday, 01/5/2022 @ 09:25am

I was listening to that song with the line "Don't ya'll think this outlaw thing has done got out of Hand" and I thought, "I wonder if Waylon is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
He sure was a rocker!
John C. Anderson

Posted by John C. Anderson on Saturday, 03/19/2022 @ 17:20pm

I generally vote "No Way" on a lot of the country singers proposed here, but Waylon Jennings is more in the school of Johnny Cash, an "outlaw country" stsr with rock roots. He and Willie Nelson are both inevitable.

Another Essential Song: "Luckenback, Texas"

Posted by Bookhouse on Friday, 01/27/2023 @ 14:51pm

I personally think Waylon Jennings should have been in the rock and roll hall of fame a long time ago. Although I doubt if he would have shown up to accept it. If I was Willie that's exactly what I would do. No show because it's been years coming!

Posted by Linda Kennedy on Wednesday, 05/3/2023 @ 17:10pm

I personally think Waylon Jennings should have been in the rock and roll hall of fame a long time ago. Although I doubt if he would have shown up to accept it. If I was Willie that's exactly what I would do. No show because it's been years coming!

Posted by Linda Kennedy on Wednesday, 05/3/2023 @ 17:10pm

Enough, Put Waylon in !

Posted by Thomas W Chevrette jr on Tuesday, 04/23/2024 @ 06:29am