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This is WAYLON at His Best. Pure Outlaw Music, & I'm sure You'll Enjoy this CD as much as I have.ENJOY.
Most of the lyrics indulge in all sorts of "outlaw" hyperbole and hoopla, but Waylon delivers them as though he believes every word. This CD is a 1999 reissue of Jennings's classic country recording from 1974, the first recording on which RCA cut Waylon some creative slack to let him do his own thing. The instrumentation is sparse, the lyrics are vivid, and Waylon's voice booms out in all its splendor. What he did with his hard-won artistic freedom was to lay down a bunch of cuts by writer Billy Joe Shavers. The end result was a recording that still sounds fun more than 25 years later. The only thing I can find to gripe about is that even with a couple of bonus tracks added to the original 10, this CD checks in at a meager 32:34. But it's hard to play this CD without immediately playing it again (the devil may make you do it the first time, but the second time you'll do it on your own), so maybe you can pragmatically pretend that it times out at 65:08.
I have most of waylons albums.If I should choose one album,,this is the one, it simply does not get better than thins.The wonderfull album "dreaming my dreams" do have a more polich sound,,this one is raw, that is just the right sound for Waylon.The songs are all superb, they all stand together, They are abouth the modern cowboys, and the different 'stages of teir lives. From "ride me down easy" "black Rose" to "we had it all"
The musicians are clearly all top-notch; the playing is nothing fancy, for the most part, but solid and honest. You can smell the beer and cigarette smoke in every note, but it never becomes cliche or hokey.
Mind you this was back before country had come into fashion, so I recieved more then my share of guff for doing something so uncool. Then I got lead away by the siren call of rock, country got popular, and I got guff for not listening to it.As I've gotten older my musical appetite has grown broader and I found myself looking to revisit country, but I ran into the issue of where to start.
Back in my younger days I listened to quite a bit of country music. Maybe it was just all those episodes of The Dukes of Hazard I watched as a kid, but he seemed like a good place to start.Honky Tonk Heroes is about as genuine and album as I have come across in my entire life.
Honestly most of the stuff I heard on the radio was really just pop music with twang and cowboy hats, which had little resemblence to the music I was looking for, and after a bit of digging around I found this album. Jennings was one musician that still stuck in my head.
Jennings voice is warm, but just rough enough to be truly satisfying, and lacks the over-exagerated twang that many contemporaries have. In short this is an album that any counrty fan should own, and for those looking to get acquainted with the genre, it's a perfect place to start.
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