In 1976, Waylon Jennings recorded Sharon Vaughn’s song “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” for his compilation Wanted! The Outlaws, but never released it as a single. Vaughn originally wrote the song when her then-boyfriend, Bill Rice, asked her to write a cowboy song for Bobby Bare. When Bare turned it down, Jennings grabbed it. A […]
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