WAYLON AND CASH LIVED MINUTES APART — YET CALLED EACH OTHER EVERY NIGHT. THE REASON WILL BREAK YOUR HEART.In Hendersonville, Tennessee, two outlaws who once raised hell across America ended up as quiet neighbors. Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash — two men who changed country music forever — spent their final years just minutes from each other’s front door.But instead of walking over, they called. Every single night.Waylon could barely walk after losing his foot to diabetes. Cash was battling his own failing health. Yet no matter how bad the pain got, that phone would ring.They didn’t talk about fame. They didn’t talk about music. They just needed to know the other one was still there.”Me and John didn’t need to say much. We just needed to know the other one was still there.”Waylon passed in February 2002. Cash followed in September 2003. Two outlaws — gone within nineteen months of each other.Some say the second phone just stopped ringing.But what Jessi Colter revealed about Waylon’s very last night alive… that story still haunts everyone who hears it.
Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash Lived Minutes Apart — and in the End, the Phone Meant Everything By the time…