RCA Country Legends - Waylon Jennings

Product details

Title: RCA Country Legends

Performer: Waylon Jennings

Genre: Country

Release Date: 26/11/2001

Recomended Retail Price: 20.99 GBP

Original Release Year: 2001

Label / Distributor: Sony BMG Imports / Sony Music/Arvato Services

Pieces in Set: 1

Studio / Live: Studio

Stereo: Stereo

Format: Performer

EAN: 744659978821

Catalogue Number: 74465997882

Additional notes

Album Notes: Personnel includes: Waylon Jennings (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin); Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter (vocals); Gordon Payne (acoustic & electric guitars, background vocals); Bobby Dyson, Jerry Bridges (electric guitar, bass); Jerry Reed, Fred Carter (electric guitar); Charlie McCoy (guitar, harmonica, vibraphone); Rance Wasson (guitar, background vocals); Randy Scruggs, Ray Edenton (guitar); Pete Drake, Ralph Mooney (steel guitar); Martin Katahan (violin); Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Marvin Chantry (viola); Martha McCrory (cello); Don Brooks (harmonica); Jim Gordon (saxophone); Ray Stevens (trumpet, vibraphone); Maurice Spears (trombone); Dee Moeller (piano, organ); Duke Goff (bass); Richie Albright (drums, percussion); The Jordanaires (background vocals).
Producers include: Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Ronny Light, Danny Davis.
Compilation producer: Rob Santos.
Recorded between March 18, 1965 and January 24, 1985. Includes liner notes by Rich Kienzle.
Digitally remastered by Elliott Federman (SAJE Sound, New York, New York).
This generous two-disc compilation effectively replaces the deleted ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE double-disc that was initially packaged as a box set (ah, nostalgia). As such, it carries the listener through the various phases of the late country pioneer's groundbreaking career. We get '60s cuts such as Gordon Lightfoot's "That's What You Get For Lovin' Me" and Chuck Berry's "Brown Eyed Handsome Man," which show an early eclectic streak seemingly at odds with Waylon's early, more polite "Nashville" material like "Stop the World (And Let Me Off)."
Perhaps most importantly, we get the mid-'70s selections that defined the term "outlaw country." "Dreaming my Dreams," "Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way," and the like are gloriously fiesty examples of a hardcore country singer mixing rock flavoring and attitude with his badass cowboy image, to earth-shaking effect. Jennings's later, mega-successful collaborations with pal/fellow outlaw Willie Nelson (most famously "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys") and the not-half-bad-when-you-think-about it theme from DUKES OF HAZZARD represent his most accessible side, but most of RCA COUNTRY LEGENDS bears out the fact that Waylon was a true country rebel.

Titles on disc 1

1.: Stop The World

2.: For Lovin' Me

3.: Chokin' Kind

4.: Walk Out On My Mind

5.: Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line

6.: Your Love

7.: Brown Eyed Handsome Man

8.: Taker

9.: Cedartown

10.: Sweet Dream Woman

11.: Pretend I Never Happened

12.: You Can Have Her

13.: You Ask Me To

14.: This Time

15.: I'm A Ramblin' Man

16.: Rainy Day Woman

17.: Dreaming My Dreams With You

18.: Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way

19.: Bob Willis Is Still The King

20.: Good Hearted Woman

21.: Can't You See

22.: Are You Ready For The Country

23.: Luckenbach Texas

24.: Wurlitzer Prize

25.: Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

26.: I've Always Been Crazy

27.: Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand

28.: Amanda

29.: Come With Me

30.: I Ain't Living Long Like This

31.: Clyde

32.: Dukes Of Hazzard

33.: Storms Never Last

34.: Shine

35.: Lucille

36.: I May Be Used

37.: Never Could Toe The Mark

38.: America

39.: Waltz Me To Heaven

40.: Drinkin' And Dreamin'

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