Music History

Good news, bad news for WE Fest.

For country music, any year could be the year, but thinking back 1981 was the year I graduated from high school.

Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson were the best of friends, and they collaborated on hits more than once. One of the pair’s biggest hits was “Good Hearted Woman,” and they finished it in an unlikely setting — in the middle of one of Nelson’s infamous private poker games. Jennings had already written most of the song, but he was stuck on …