Michael Rule
Michael Rule country music singer songwriter explains “Everybody assumes that artists like Johnny Cash, Alan Jackson and Waylon Jennings are my inspiration.” Three days after Michael Rule was born he was diagnosed with a dysfunctional heart.
This led to eight major operations including open heart surgery. The doctors did not expect him to live through his childhood. He says, “I’ve got more scars than Rambo so I really fooled them.”
Doctors and his mother were very protective and all too often Michael Rule heard the phrase ‘you can’t’. Whether it was ‘you can’t run across the playground’ or ‘you can’t play baseball’. But he did it all anyway – and still does.
Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter and musician. Jennings began playing guitar at eight and began performing at 14 on KVOW radio.
His first band was The Texas Longhorns. He worked as a DJ on KVOW, KDAV, KYTI and KLLL. In 1958 Buddy Holly arranged Jennings’s first recording session, of Jole Blon and When Sin Stops (Love Begins).
The album ‘Just Me Talking‘ was released on March 15th 2011. You will also find ‘For Loving You’ released on Hillcrest Music CD 62 and Hillcrest Canada CD 65 August 2012.
Holly hired him to play bass. In Clear Lake, Iowa, the story is told that Jennings gave up his seat on the ill-fated flight that crashed and killed Holly, J. P. Richardson, Ritchie Valens and pilot Roger Peterson. Jennings then worked as a DJ in Coolidge, Arizona and Phoenix.
He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors. He recorded for independent label Trend Records and A&M Records before succeeding with RCA Victor after achieving creative control.
On February 13, 2002, Jennings died in his sleep from complications of diabetes at the age of 64, at his home in Chandler, Arizona. He was buried in the City of Mesa Cemetery, in nearby Mesa. At his memorial service on February 15, Jessi Colter sang Storms Never Last. Wikipedia