Poker has a long history of the Old West and cowboys, and that seems to include some regular play between some of the biggest names in country music. WhiskeyRiff.com recently reflected on A.J A game featuring country legends Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings Which made one of the card players feel taken advantage of.
The match took place early in Jennings’ career in the 1960s when he was moving from club to club, hoping to draw a draw after his performance, and featured Haggard and his manager Fuzzie Owens.
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Many musicians have been known to play some cards, from the Eagles to Kris Kristofferson to Darius Rucker and others. Willie Nelson She regularly hosts games with celebrities It includes a lot of pot smoking and fun.
However, the Haggard-Jennings match left the latter feeling a bit underused. In the 1996 film Waylon: An Autobiography, Jennings recalls taking a loss of about $5,000 that night, a very large sum of money for an artist barely getting by on the road.
He pointed out that his two opponents, “Tehrani… won everything.” Was this just sour grapes or was there bad faith? Given his recent ordeal with the death of a band member, Jennings felt he had been taken advantage of by friends.
“They were there to get my money. And that was it,” Jennings noted. “I think Merle’s a great singer and songwriter, and he was probably in as bad shape as I was, but we’ve never been closer since that night.”
Both artists would go on to achieve massive success. Jennings became a pioneer of outlaw country, selling 40 million records worldwide and winning two Grammy Awards and four Country Music Association Awards. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and died in 2002.
Haggard has achieved great success in the same genre with album sales exceeding six million, winning three Grammy Awards and several Academy of Country Music Awards. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1994 and died in 2016.
