Long Time Gone, A Birthday Tribute to Waylon Jennings feat: The Lonesome Prairie Guests & Friends plus Lenny Kaye, author of the Waylon Jennings Autobiography.
About This Event
Long Time Gone, a birthday tribute to Waylon Jennings at Lucinda's, pairs The Lonesome Prairie Guests & Friends with Lenny Kaye. The program places Jennings' work—more closely tied to outlaw and traditional country, honky-tonk and direct storytelling—against Kaye's perspective as Patti Smith's guitarist, producer and author (Nuggets; You Call It Madness).
About Long Time Gone, A Birthday Tribute to Waylon Jennings
“Long Time Gone, A Birthday Tribute to Waylon Jennings” is a live event at Lucinda’s, presented as a birthday-night reckoning with Jennings’ legacy. Waylon Jennings appears alongside The Lonesome Prairie Guests & Friends, with Lenny Kaye in the mix, and the program leans into a Hip-Hop/R&B framing rather than a museum-piece country salute. No NYC premiere history is confirmed, but in New York the tribute reads as a study in how American song traditions get retranslated across scenes. The most interesting tension is the genre shift itself, testing what “tribute” can mean.
About the Artists
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings is an individual artist associated with Hip-Hop/R&B listings on New York City bills, including appearances at Lucinda’s. His name also anchors themed performances such as *Long Time Gone* and *A Birthday Tribute to Waylon Jennings*, presented with The Lonesome Prairie Guests & Friends and alongside Lenny Kaye in a program that nods to Jennings’ autobiography.
The Lonesome Prairie Guests & Friends
The Lonesome Prairie Guests & Friends is a Hip-Hop/R&B group that turns up in New York City rooms like Lucinda’s, often in programs built around collaboration and repertoire. They have shared bills with artists as different as Waylon Jennings and Lenny Kaye, folding outside narratives into their own set.
Lenny Kaye
Explore the work of Lenny Kaye, guitarist for Patti Smith, influential producer, and author of Nuggets and You Call It Madness, shaping generations of music culture.