Jessi Colter & Jamey Johnson to Play Benefit Concert September 29

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Jessi Colter & Jamey Johnson to Play Benefit Concert September 29

Published on September 12, 2012 by Eric 'WizKid' Odom

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Jamey Johnson photo by Jack Spencer, courtesy of UMG Nashville.

Waylon Jennings‘ widow, artist Jessi Colter, and Waylon’s band, Waymore’s Blues Band, along with Jamey Johnson, will play a benefit concert, ‘Full Moon Full Life,’ on September 29 in Normandy, Tennessee. The concert will benefit pancreatic cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

The event, as well as Jamey Johnson’s upcoming album, Livin For a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran, out October 16, was inspired in part by legendary songwriter Hank Cochran. Hank lost his battle to pancreatic cancer in 2010.

“Shortly after he first met Jamey, Hank was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,” Suzi Cochran, Hank’s widow, said. “So for the two years he lived after that, Jamey would get off the road and pull his bus right up

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