Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits (RCA)

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These cuts capture Waylon Jennings in the first flush of his status as a country music superstar, after he gained control of his music in the early '70s. When he began to produce or coproduce his own records, it should be stressed, his music didn't change much--his "Good Hearted Woman" from 1972 (to cite the only pre-Outlaw cut here) is of a piece with later hits like "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "Luckenbach, Texas," from their ramblin'-man themes to Waylon's booming baritone and his music's burping bass lines. What was different was the rock-influenced Outlaw ad copy pushing his career, a rebellious new image he cultivated in country chart-toppers like "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" and "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," a duet with Willie Nelson. That new frame made all the difference. Jennings had always been great but now, on eight of the nine tracks here, his singles went all the way to the top of the charts. --David Cantwell

Product Description:
18 Great Tracks from the Late Cowboy "Outlaw" that Helped Set Country Music on Its Ear in Cahoots with Longtime Pal Willie Nelson. They were a Different Breed of Country Singer, Not Afraid to Show Defiance of the Nashville Establishment and Portrayed a Rough, Honky Tonkin Image....and People Loved and Respected Him for It. Jennings Had So Many Great Hit Singles, There was a Period of About 10 Years in the 70's and 80's Where it Didn't Matter What He Released, it Automatically Went Gold. He Never Forgot that it was his Place on a Small Plane that Mentor Buddy Holly Took One Fateful Night and Never Returned. There Will Never Be Another Like Him, No Other Voice Will Ever Sound Like Him.

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Average customer rating: music cd WAILIN' FOR "REAL MEN" (And The Ladies Who Love Them!) The Finest C&W Artist I Have Ever had The Pleasure of ListeningTo Still a country music hater . . . but . . . WAYLON THE CLASSICS

Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits [RCA] Waylon Jennings Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Wanted! The Outlaws 16 Biggest Hits Ultimate Waylon Jennings Waylon & Willie Merle Haggard - 20 Greatest Hits ASIN: B000002WCG Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Lonesome, On' ry And Mean
2. I've Always Been Crazy
3. Honky Tonk Heroes
4. Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)
5. I'm A Ramblin' Man
6. Amanda
7. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
8. A Good Hearted Woman
9. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way

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These cuts capture Waylon Jennings in the first flush of his status as a country music superstar, after he gained control of his music in the early '70s. When he began to produce or coproduce his own records, it should be stressed, his music didn't change much--his "Good Hearted Woman" from 1972 (to cite the only pre-Outlaw cut here) is of a piece with later hits like "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "Luckenbach, Texas," from their ramblin'-man themes to Waylon's booming baritone and his music's burping bass lines. What was different was the rock-influenced Outlaw ad copy pushing his career, a rebellious new image he cultivated in country chart-toppers like "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" and "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," a duet with Willie Nelson. That new frame made all the difference. Jennings had always been great but now, on eight of the nine tracks here, his singles went all the way to the top of the charts. --David Cantwell

Album Details

18 Great Tracks from the Late Cowboy "Outlaw" that Helped Set Country Music on Its Ear in Cahoots with Longtime Pal Willie Nelson. They were a Different Breed of Country Singer, Not Afraid to Show Defiance of the Nashville Establishment and Portrayed a Rough, Honky Tonkin Image....and People Loved and Respected Him for It. Jennings Had So Many Great Hit Singles, There was a Period of About 10 Years in the 70's and 80's Where it Didn't Matter What He Released, it Automatically Went Gold. He Never Forgot that it was his Place on a Small Plane that Mentor Buddy Holly Took One Fateful Night and Never Returned. There Will Never Be Another Like Him, No Other Voice Will Ever Sound Like Him.

Customer Reviews:

music cd.......2006-11-10

I was so excited to receive this CD. It brought back fond memories of my childhood and going to concerts with my mom. It arrived quickly, as usual and was instantly a hit with my kids. Thank you

WAILIN' FOR "REAL MEN" (And The Ladies Who Love Them!).......2006-10-23

This stuff is WAILIN'! Now sure, you could say that others also knew how to wail. I mean, some would argue that AC/DC and Eminem wail, too. But WAYLON JENNINGS: GREATEST HITS is "Real Man" wailin', unlike those short pants-wearing Aussie sissies with the "switch-hitting" name (Eeeeew!) or that big wuss, M&M, a salty peanut, chocolate-covered wannabe in a thin candy-a## shell! No, boys `n' girls, OL' WAYLON is "real man" music for real men and the three or four women who can still recognize real men, and who love `em despite their faults (which are usually the size of the San Andreas).

When Ol' Waylon "Waymore" Jennings cashed in his chips in 2002, that great rodeo star and bullrider extraordinaire, Yoey O'Dogherty, passed his upturned, Jim Beam-filled Stetson amongst his fellow Texas cowboys and declared, "Well boys, this poor world just lost half of its masculinity, but won't the ol' devil soil his shorts and run out the back door of hell tonight!"

Waylon "Waymore" Jennings, in case you didn't know it, was the unofficial leader of those early `70s Nashville Country music rebels labeled the "Outlaws." Waylon was an "outlaw" because he wasn't doing it the way the Nashville suits said it should be done; he took the attitude that it's my life, my music, now step aside before you're wearing my electric guitar for a cowboy hat! Lemme tell ya sumpin': Waylon was the first to meld Country-Western sentiments and style to the energy and raw electric edge of Rock music to create the "new" Country. And the "new" Country doesn't mean "today's" County: Waylon transformed the original Country whine of "My cheating woman left me, my horse left me, and only Jim Beam stuck by my side" to "I tossed my cheating woman over my horse's hide and paddled her behind, and now I'm playing with my guitar instead - and it talks sweeter than she ever did!" (Although Waylon's a nice boy on the sweet `AMANDA.')

Country has degenerated into a bunch of pretty boys in designer jeans and silk jammies whining about how their cheating woman left them and took the Hummer, or was it the red BMW? Heck, it was the new Mercedes! Where's my Jim Beam? Why she ran off with him, too! That little #%*@! WAAAaaaaa.....

Ol' Waylon is the real deal! This is tough, growling, rip-roaring, six-shooter Country with beefy rhythms that bite! And no, Ol' Waylon ain't skeered to show his tender side (while he's pausing to reload his .45), but it ain't that seeeeensitive Country twaddle; it's more like "of course I love you, babe - didn't I let you hold my hand just as soon as the theatre went dark for the John Wayne picture show?"

I saw countless Rock concerts back "in the day." Saw the Police at the Whisky on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood; saw the early Blue Oyster Cult laser extravaganza in the `70s; saw UFO and Bob Seger at The Forum in Inglewood; and saw those loud, smoke machine and strobe light shows that Thin Lizzy perfected on the B circuit. Nobody, but NOBODY was able to match Waylon! That good ol' boy just stood there with his macho charisma, his humor, and that fancy rope-encircled guitar of his, and he put on great shows - between songs, telling outrageously funny stories about when he and Johnny Cash were terrorizing the Country music capital of Nashville.

Of course, Johnny Cash has been all the rage these last couple of years, and sure, Cash was cool. But listen, if you like "The Man In Black", yer gonna LOVE Waylon! I mean, sheesh! Just look at that picture on the cover! Dudes and dudettes, that's "cool" and "mischief" simultaneously personified. And wait'll ya hear these wailin' tunes! Ol' Waylon was the best entertainer I ever saw on a stage. And if I could look and sound like any other person in history, I'd look and sound just like Ol' Waymore.

WAYLON JENNINGS: GREATEST HITS is one of my Top Ten favorite albums ever! My one complaint is that the (currently out-of-print) import version contains two songs that are now inexcusably missing from the cheap domestic copy. And those missing songs are outstanding: ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE and the classic, LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS. Whoever is responsible for this at RCA should be pistol-whipped within an inch of his life! But the fact remains that if yer gonna own only one Waylon disc, it simply MUST include HONKY TONK HEROES, and until somebody does a Waylon's Greatest Hits or Best Of collection right, this remains the only one with that unforgettable slice of Waymore night life. And HONKY TONK HEROES may have been Waymore's best song, but he humorously expressed his love for (his soon-to-be wife) the darling Jessi Colter in the missing LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS:

Jessi liked the Cadillacs and diamonds on her hands
Waymore had a reputation as a ladie's man
Late one night a light of love finally gave a sign
Jessi parked her Cadillac and took her place in line.

'Cause ladies love outlaws like babies love stray dogs
Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold
And outlaws touch ladies
Somewhere deep down in their soul.

And Waylon proved that outlaw/woman connection in a funny passage from his autobiography. It seems Waymore was on a television show with the Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick and she mistakenly thought she was going to physically intimidate this outlaw. (Slick is one dumb chick!)

"...Grace Slick was raising hell about America ..... I was getting mad, telling her that I'm the first to agree there's a lot wrong with our system, but it's still the best out there, and she's talking about communism and striking karate poses. `There ain't a chance in the world me being afraid of you,' I said, and that turned her on." Waylon says that she was all set to dump her German boyfriend that day.

Hey, why are you still reading this review? Dang! What's wrong with you? Why haven't you ordered this album already? Look, don't make me have to come over there!

The Finest C&W Artist I Have Ever had The Pleasure of ListeningTo.......2006-09-21

Simply put, Waylon Jennings undoubtedly was the greatest outlaw cowboy singer that ever lived. His history, actually having been present and almost done in on "The Day the Music Died" when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens told Waylon, who had a cold, to take the bus is legendary and astoundingly prophetic. Afterwards, Buddy Holly's tinker toy plane ditched in the throes of a North Dakota Artic like night when crystal like ice permeated the atmosphere and contaminated their survival like a runaway cobra in a Bombay marketplace. Waylon went on to greatness and on this CD, songs like Mammas Don't let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys, Are You Sure Hank Done it this Way and Luckenbach Texas are indescribably ingenious in their presentation and quality. You have Willie Nelson duets (Waylon and Willie) that are outstanding because to put it bluntly, Willie is no slouch either. Waylon, with his syrupy and very demanding and forceful vocals coupled with guitar finesse and his sheer presence as a man who has lived through it all, evolved subsequent to that fateful and disappointingly tragic day in the late fifties when those rock and roll fans who sensed that something affecting their futures like a bullet to the heart perceived that Waylon would be the scion to carry all of it on, realized that Waylon was not only country, he was iconic and unique to the point of an infinity-like fabric. My recommendation as a CD Reviewer of some prominence is for you to build a library of Waylon Jennings Cd's. Waylon was not only a pioneer, he was simply the best.

Jay Adler Massapequa, New York

Still a country music hater . . . but . . ........2006-04-21

I do not own a country music cd in my house, they are banned. Country music is what is wrong with a America. You have the East coast, then the West coast, and then there is country music in the middle. And we wonder why we got problems? I have always associated country music with stupidity. HOWEVER, dont get TOO offended out there BOYS! When I was young my mom used to listen to this album on the 8 track. I have always remembered some of the lyrics to the songs, like Amanda and others. Well, now she has passed away a few years ago. One day I saw this CD and feeling sentimental I decided to purchase it on "Amazon". (Never would I purchase a country album full price else where.) Well, let me tell you, Waylon Jennings was a great talent. Just listening to the music instruments and his barotone voice. I recommend this album to any country music hater. Not that I have converted, never may that happen! But, I will give Waylon his props, RIP. You too Mom, and thanks.

WAYLON THE CLASSICS.......2005-11-18

The King of the Outlaws may be dead and gone, but as they warble in country music circles, his memory lives on, and I ain't talkin' about Jesse James, folks. Waymore, as he was affectionately known, and buddy Willie Nelson spearheaded the so-called "Outlaw Movement" of the seventies, the rowdy and roots-rich antithesis of the piss-poor "Hat Act" substitute that passes for country these daze. The Lubbock, Texas native (also home of his former boss Buddy Holly), never operated within the confines of Nashville, insisting on using his own musicians on recordings, and "Waylon" about subjects near and dear to him. The titles on this, one of THE truly essential hits collections, country or otherwise, tell much about the man's point of view long before you hear 'em. LONESOME ON'RY AND MEAN, LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS, HONKY TONK HEROES, and I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CRAZY are all wry, tongue in cheek variations on the "outsider" attitude that made the man so endearing and his music so enduring. The definitive cover of Ed Bruce's MAMMAS, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS and the genteel LUCHENBACH, TEXAS, both enhanced by Willie, the funky ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE, and poignant slow dancer AMANDA also bear up to repeated listenings. Accept no soulless, dimpled, hunky substitutes; Waylon---no last name ever need be utterered---was the real deal and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Hank, Merle, Buck and any other true country-to-the-core legend that ever lived (or died). RATING: FIVE WAILS

Average customer rating: Waylon Grabs You From The First Song..

"Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" Waylon Jennings Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Outlaw & Texas Country | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Outlaw & Texas Country | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits [RCA] Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol.1 ASIN: B000002W84 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Looking For Suzanne
2. The Conversation
3. Waltz Me To Heaven
4. Theme From The Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)
5. Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand
6. I Ain't Living Long Like This
7. Come With Me
8. America
9. Shine
10. Women Do Know How To Carry On

Customer Reviews:

Waylon Grabs You From The First Song.........2001-06-03

It's the easy way the music and the lyrics come at you. There are two songs that are slow, but with Waylon's style you listen anyway and he throws in some humor on the Dukes Of Hazzard track. Waylon sings about what life can dish out to a person. I play this CD over and over again in my truck and I,m a Rock n Roller at heart..I bought it without hearing it first. Give it a try, it's worth every note!

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Willie Nelson - Greatest Hits Willie Nelson w , and Waylon Jennings Manufacturer: Prime Cuts ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Outlaw & Texas Country | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Outlaw & Texas Country | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002V3Z Release Date: 1995-07-14

Tracks:

1. I Just Don't Understand
2. You'll Always Have Someone
3. Blame It On The Time
4. Wastin' Time
5. You Wouldn't Cross The Street To Say Goodbye
6. I'm Gonna Lose A Lot Of Teardrops
7. One Step Beyond
8. I Feel Sorry For Him
9. Suffer In Silence
10. Home Is Where You're Happy

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First things first: The title is deceptive. Yes, these are super hits--but not necessarily for Nelson. Check the song list, because if you're looking for songs made famous by the jazzy cowboy, you'll likely be disappointed. A master of reinterpretation, Willie applies his skills to a list of favorites, turning them inside-out and coming up with wholly original versions. --Alexandra Russell

Average customer rating: music cd WAILIN' FOR "REAL MEN" (And The Ladies Who Love Them!) The Finest C&W Artist I Have Ever had The Pleasure of ListeningTo Still a country music hater . . . but . . . WAYLON THE CLASSICS

Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits Waylon Jennings Manufacturer: Bmg/Camden ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Wanted! The Outlaws 16 Biggest Hits Ultimate Waylon Jennings Waylon & Willie Merle Haggard - 20 Greatest Hits ASIN: B000026FAY Release Date: 2002-08-16

Tracks:

1. Lonesome On'ry and Mean
2. Ladies Love Outlaws
3. I've Always Been Crazy
4. I'm A Ramblin Man
5. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
6. Amanda
7. Honky Tonk Heros
8. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
9. Good Hearted Woman
10. Luckenback Texas(Back to the Basic of Love)
11. Are You Sure Hank Did It This Way

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These cuts capture Waylon Jennings in the first flush of his status as a country music superstar, after he gained control of his music in the early '70s. When he began to produce or coproduce his own records, it should be stressed, his music didn't change much--his "Good Hearted Woman" from 1972 (to cite the only pre-Outlaw cut here) is of a piece with later hits like "Honky Tonk Heroes" and "Luckenbach, Texas," from their ramblin'-man themes to Waylon's booming baritone and his music's burping bass lines. What was different was the rock-influenced Outlaw ad copy pushing his career, a rebellious new image he cultivated in country chart-toppers like "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" and "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," a duet with Willie Nelson. That new frame made all the difference. Jennings had always been great but now, on eight of the nine tracks here, his singles went all the way to the top of the charts. --David Cantwell

Album Details

Includes Two More Tracks Than the USA Version.: Ladies Love Outlaws, Only Daddy Thatll Walk the Line.

Customer Reviews:

music cd.......2006-11-10

I was so excited to receive this CD. It brought back fond memories of my childhood and going to concerts with my mom. It arrived quickly, as usual and was instantly a hit with my kids. Thank you

WAILIN' FOR "REAL MEN" (And The Ladies Who Love Them!).......2006-10-23

This stuff is WAILIN'! Now sure, you could say that others also knew how to wail. I mean, some would argue that AC/DC and Eminem wail, too. But WAYLON JENNINGS: GREATEST HITS is "Real Man" wailin', unlike those short pants-wearing Aussie sissies with the "switch-hitting" name (Eeeeew!) or that big wuss, M&M, a salty peanut, chocolate-covered wannabe in a thin candy-a## shell! No, boys `n' girls, OL' WAYLON is "real man" music for real men and the three or four women who can still recognize real men, and who love `em despite their faults (which are usually the size of the San Andreas).

When Ol' Waylon "Waymore" Jennings cashed in his chips in 2002, that great rodeo star and bullrider extraordinaire, Yoey O'Dogherty, passed his upturned, Jim Beam-filled Stetson amongst his fellow Texas cowboys and declared, "Well boys, this poor world just lost half of its masculinity, but won't the ol' devil soil his shorts and run out the back door of hell tonight!"

Waylon "Waymore" Jennings, in case you didn't know it, was the unofficial leader of those early `70s Nashville Country music rebels labeled the "Outlaws." Waylon was an "outlaw" because he wasn't doing it the way the Nashville suits said it should be done; he took the attitude that it's my life, my music, now step aside before you're wearing my electric guitar for a cowboy hat! Lemme tell ya sumpin': Waylon was the first to meld Country-Western sentiments and style to the energy and raw electric edge of Rock music to create the "new" Country. And the "new" Country doesn't mean "today's" County: Waylon transformed the original Country whine of "My cheating woman left me, my horse left me, and only Jim Beam stuck by my side" to "I tossed my cheating woman over my horse's hide and paddled her behind, and now I'm playing with my guitar instead - and it talks sweeter than she ever did!" (Although Waylon's a nice boy on the sweet `AMANDA.')

Country has degenerated into a bunch of pretty boys in designer jeans and silk jammies whining about how their cheating woman left them and took the Hummer, or was it the red BMW? Heck, it was the new Mercedes! Where's my Jim Beam? Why she ran off with him, too! That little #%*@! WAAAaaaaa.....

Ol' Waylon is the real deal! This is tough, growling, rip-roaring, six-shooter Country with beefy rhythms that bite! And no, Ol' Waylon ain't skeered to show his tender side (while he's pausing to reload his .45), but it ain't that seeeeensitive Country twaddle; it's more like "of course I love you, babe - didn't I let you hold my hand just as soon as the theatre went dark for the John Wayne picture show?"

I saw countless Rock concerts back "in the day." Saw the Police at the Whisky on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood; saw the early Blue Oyster Cult laser extravaganza in the `70s; saw UFO and Bob Seger at The Forum in Inglewood; and saw those loud, smoke machine and strobe light shows that Thin Lizzy perfected on the B circuit. Nobody, but NOBODY was able to match Waylon! That good ol' boy just stood there with his macho charisma, his humor, and that fancy rope-encircled guitar of his, and he put on great shows - between songs, telling outrageously funny stories about when he and Johnny Cash were terrorizing the Country music capital of Nashville.

Of course, Johnny Cash has been all the rage these last couple of years, and sure, Cash was cool. But listen, if you like "The Man In Black", yer gonna LOVE Waylon! I mean, sheesh! Just look at that picture on the cover! Dudes and dudettes, that's "cool" and "mischief" simultaneously personified. And wait'll ya hear these wailin' tunes! Ol' Waylon was the best entertainer I ever saw on a stage. And if I could look and sound like any other person in history, I'd look and sound just like Ol' Waymore.

WAYLON JENNINGS: GREATEST HITS is one of my Top Ten favorite albums ever! My one complaint is that the (currently out-of-print) import version contains two songs that are now inexcusably missing from the cheap domestic copy. And those missing songs are outstanding: ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE and the classic, LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS. Whoever is responsible for this at RCA should be pistol-whipped within an inch of his life! But the fact remains that if yer gonna own only one Waylon disc, it simply MUST include HONKY TONK HEROES, and until somebody does a Waylon's Greatest Hits or Best Of collection right, this remains the only one with that unforgettable slice of Waymore night life. And HONKY TONK HEROES may have been Waymore's best song, but he humorously expressed his love for (his soon-to-be wife) the darling Jessi Colter in the missing LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS:

Jessi liked the Cadillacs and diamonds on her hands
Waymore had a reputation as a ladie's man
Late one night a light of love finally gave a sign
Jessi parked her Cadillac and took her place in line.

'Cause ladies love outlaws like babies love stray dogs
Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold
And outlaws touch ladies
Somewhere deep down in their soul.

And Waylon proved that outlaw/woman connection in a funny passage from his autobiography. It seems Waymore was on a television show with the Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick and she mistakenly thought she was going to physically intimidate this outlaw. (Slick is one dumb chick!)

"...Grace Slick was raising hell about America ..... I was getting mad, telling her that I'm the first to agree there's a lot wrong with our system, but it's still the best out there, and she's talking about communism and striking karate poses. `There ain't a chance in the world me being afraid of you,' I said, and that turned her on." Waylon says that she was all set to dump her German boyfriend that day.

Hey, why are you still reading this review? Dang! What's wrong with you? Why haven't you ordered this album already? Look, don't make me have to come over there!

The Finest C&W Artist I Have Ever had The Pleasure of ListeningTo.......2006-09-21

Simply put, Waylon Jennings undoubtedly was the greatest outlaw cowboy singer that ever lived. His history, actually having been present and almost done in on "The Day the Music Died" when Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Valens told Waylon, who had a cold, to take the bus is legendary and astoundingly prophetic. Afterwards, Buddy Holly's tinker toy plane ditched in the throes of a North Dakota Artic like night when crystal like ice permeated the atmosphere and contaminated their survival like a runaway cobra in a Bombay marketplace. Waylon went on to greatness and on this CD, songs like Mammas Don't let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys, Are You Sure Hank Done it this Way and Luckenbach Texas are indescribably ingenious in their presentation and quality. You have Willie Nelson duets (Waylon and Willie) that are outstanding because to put it bluntly, Willie is no slouch either. Waylon, with his syrupy and very demanding and forceful vocals coupled with guitar finesse and his sheer presence as a man who has lived through it all, evolved subsequent to that fateful and disappointingly tragic day in the late fifties when those rock and roll fans who sensed that something affecting their futures like a bullet to the heart perceived that Waylon would be the scion to carry all of it on, realized that Waylon was not only country, he was iconic and unique to the point of an infinity-like fabric. My recommendation as a CD Reviewer of some prominence is for you to build a library of Waylon Jennings Cd's. Waylon was not only a pioneer, he was simply the best.

Jay Adler Massapequa, New York

Still a country music hater . . . but . . ........2006-04-21

I do not own a country music cd in my house, they are banned. Country music is what is wrong with a America. You have the East coast, then the West coast, and then there is country music in the middle. And we wonder why we got problems? I have always associated country music with stupidity. HOWEVER, dont get TOO offended out there BOYS! When I was young my mom used to listen to this album on the 8 track. I have always remembered some of the lyrics to the songs, like Amanda and others. Well, now she has passed away a few years ago. One day I saw this CD and feeling sentimental I decided to purchase it on "Amazon". (Never would I purchase a country album full price else where.) Well, let me tell you, Waylon Jennings was a great talent. Just listening to the music instruments and his barotone voice. I recommend this album to any country music hater. Not that I have converted, never may that happen! But, I will give Waylon his props, RIP. You too Mom, and thanks.

WAYLON THE CLASSICS.......2005-11-18

The King of the Outlaws may be dead and gone, but as they warble in country music circles, his memory lives on, and I ain't talkin' about Jesse James, folks. Waymore, as he was affectionately known, and buddy Willie Nelson spearheaded the so-called "Outlaw Movement" of the seventies, the rowdy and roots-rich antithesis of the piss-poor "Hat Act" substitute that passes for country these daze. The Lubbock, Texas native (also home of his former boss Buddy Holly), never operated within the confines of Nashville, insisting on using his own musicians on recordings, and "Waylon" about subjects near and dear to him. The titles on this, one of THE truly essential hits collections, country or otherwise, tell much about the man's point of view long before you hear 'em. LONESOME ON'RY AND MEAN, LADIES LOVE OUTLAWS, HONKY TONK HEROES, and I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CRAZY are all wry, tongue in cheek variations on the "outsider" attitude that made the man so endearing and his music so enduring. The definitive cover of Ed Bruce's MAMMAS, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS and the genteel LUCHENBACH, TEXAS, both enhanced by Willie, the funky ONLY DADDY THAT'LL WALK THE LINE, and poignant slow dancer AMANDA also bear up to repeated listenings. Accept no soulless, dimpled, hunky substitutes; Waylon---no last name ever need be utterered---was the real deal and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Hank, Merle, Buck and any other true country-to-the-core legend that ever lived (or died). RATING: FIVE WAILS

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Greatest Hits Waylon Jennings Manufacturer: Bmg Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000E680 Release Date: 2000-01-01

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Greatest Hits Waylon Jennings Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000DEOQF Release Date: 2002-08-16

Music Album:

1. Western Cowboy Ballads and Songs 1925-1939
2. Why Do Lonely Men & Women Want to Break Each Other's Hearts?
3. World of Conway Twitty [Import]
4. 1994
5. 20 Best of Country
6. All I Wanna Do
7. Always on My Mind [Import]
8. Anne Murray's Christmas
9. BBC Radio 1 Live [Live]
10. BJ Thomas - All Time Greatest Hits

Music Album