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Waylon Jennings & The Waymore Blues Band: Never Say Die: The Final Concert Film

Cowboys love to go out with their boots on and so too was the story of a man called “Hoss.” Waylon Jennings didn’t just personify the rebel outlaw figure in country music, he essentially created him—making records far outside of the safe boundaries and expectations of staid Nashville circles in the early 1970s. Until his very end he was a rugged, ragged, irascible troubadour who lived like he sang: fearlessly. Recorded in January 2000 (Jennings passed two years later in 2002) at the fabled Ryman Auditorium, Waylon took the stage with his wife Jessi Colter, an 11-piece band and some special guests. Though he was crippled from his battle with diabetes, he sat like a badass with his leather-tooled Telecaster at his lap, swearing, spitting fire and playing his classics and a handful of favorites. Housed in multi-disc digipack Never Say Die: The Final Concert Film is deluxe set that collects Waylon’s final live show as both a two-disc live show—expanded from the album Never Say Die Live—and concert video DVD with a bevy of bonuses. This is the first time Waylon’s swan song appears in its full glory and it stands as a hell of a final testament to a hell of a singer and hellraiser.