When Hayes Carll, an Austin resident and longtime fave of American Songwriter, played “The Letter” and got to the part in the song about meeting “wild people,” the crowd shouted back: “Wild people!”
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Waylon Jennings performs onstage at Oakbrook Terrace in Oakbrook, Illinois, November 27, 1977. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
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