― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 13 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― paul, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 14 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
In an effort to keep up with the Joneses around here- on second thought, better make that the Chesneys and Bigs and Riches, I watched quite a bit of CMT during Christmas break. The one thing I noticed was that every time Waylon Jennings showed up on the screen, I sat up in my chair as my eyes were pulled to the screen. I don't remember much about him from growing up except that I liked the song "Luckenbach, Texas" (which BTW is a place where, if you go there there is no there there) and "You Never Even Call Me By My Name," which mentions his name but was not actually written or performed by him. So, any advice how to proceed? Honky Tonk Heroes?
― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 3 January 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Will(iam), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link
surely it's not scientifically popular that elvis costello has ever bested the louvin brothers at one of their own songs.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
guess I missed the revival during the period last year when I was hugely invested in my job. I love him dearly.
"Luckenbach Texas" is my favorite song of all time and this guy is untouchable. I'll smack anyone who talks about his "limited range" or any such shit.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 16 January 2006 07:36 (eighteen years ago) link
album wise I'd say these are essential:
Honky Tonk Heroes
Dreaming My Dreams
Are You Ready For The Country
Wanted: The Outlaws
from his less-successful 80s, It's Only Rock & Roll and Will The Wolf Survive are worth investigating.
"Lukenbach Texas" inspired me to mend fences w/my girlfriend after a breakup and eventually get hitched. "Back to the basics of love."
I saw the Highwaymen (in Atlantic City)during the early 90s and Waylon was in fine form, his voice sounding stronger than the decade before. Couldn't say the same for Johnny Cash, not that night.
Like Stormy said, anybody who comes here with "But Christgau says he's a macho loser" is gonna get their ass handed back to them.
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 16 January 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (lync0), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
the two CD-comp "only daddy that'll walk the line" is pretty classic all the way through, give or take "America"
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 January 2006 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
may i add, though, that i really dislike the harmonica sound waylon and willie went for in the 1970s, this sort of heavily-mic'ed, keening, sort of slippery sounding harmonica that rarely did more than sort of embellish the changes (no real harmonica solos). i mean it's not so obtrusive that it does any major damage to the song, but i sort of wish it hadn't been there.
― amateurist0, Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
side a of this lp is pretty tremendous. second side is a mixed bag.
― amateurist0, Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 March 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cisco Heckler, Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Tulsa/The Taker is an underrated Waylon album, too. You really can't go wrong with Waylon between 71 to 76.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Sunday, 12 March 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
I just got some british 3-CD box set that gives a great overview - I even liked one of the 90s songs on there ("Nobody Knows I'm Elvis", its a pretty funny throwaway). His voice has a very strange timbre, kind of flat and husky...? I daresay he sounds best when paired with other singers, but then maybe that's just cuz I'm a sucker for country harmonizing... real surprise on this box for me was "The Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line", which I had never heard before. Totally awesome Sun Records sound on there.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:40 (sixteen years ago) link
also for some reason I never recognized that Dukes of Hazzard themesong as him
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 27 June 2007 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Honkey Tonk Heroes is really one of the best albums ever, IMO; great songs from Billy Joe and great performances, you can almost feel your boots stick to the floor from all the fracus-spilled beer.
Oh, and like it or not, it IS Country.
― christoff, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Waylon's one of my all-time faves. Yeah, his voice is curious... it's really not all that *great*, yet perfect all the same.
m coleman's list upthread is pretty otm as far as essentiality goes. I'd tack on Willie & Waylon (the first one) and The Taker/ Tulsa.
― will, Thursday, 28 June 2007 15:24 (sixteen years ago) link
i picked up a record by his wife Jessi Colter the other day. overall it's just a folk album, but there are a few killer tracks. one w/funky drums, a gospel number, and this one New Wine, which i think is just fantastic. really droney, eastern sounding psych folk.
― jaxon, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
which lp? I've got I'm Jessi Colter and it's pretty great. The first side really tramples all over that fine line between some country and soul/R&B.
― will, Thursday, 28 June 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y383FMQaH5w&videos=qUba3bwQsKc&playnext_from=TL&playnext=1
jesus, this smokes.
― amateurist, Sunday, 9 August 2009 09:50 (fourteen years ago) link
that's actually live, if anyone's wondering.
― amateurist, Sunday, 9 August 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks strangely like a bloated cowboy Jon Stewart at certain angles in that video. Which incidentally is a totally awesome video.
― °⌉ 3⊥∀N (╓abies), Sunday, 9 August 2009 10:51 (fourteen years ago) link
it is! i can see the bloated cowboy jon stewart thing, but i still think waylon looks kind of hot there. i like him w/o the beard. i like how laconic his stage presence is, yet still commanding.
everything about that song/performance is outstanding, perfectly calibrated, from the two guitar solos (particularly waylon's--why does no one rate him as a guitarist?), the drumming, and most important, waylon's singing. just astonishing.
ironically this period (ca 1969) waylon was releasing LPs (and a lot of them) that were pretty hit or miss, with a lot of psuedo-psychedelic/macarthur park- and folky- type stuff that frankly didn't suit him. but on the evidence of this and other videos waylon and his touring band were in absolutely top form.
― amateurist, Sunday, 9 August 2009 15:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Waylon's a great guitar player! I always forget that it's him playing a lot of the lead stuff. His solo on this is hot!:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEtRUcKGwc
― °⌉ 3⊥∀N (╓abies), Monday, 10 August 2009 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
you wanna see Waylon absolutely SLAYING shit ... watch this clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rAA8K2718
...fucking ridiculous how tight and ripping those two minutes are ... Waylon was a god, and this: "(particularly waylon's--why does no one rate him as a guitarist?)" .. cannot be overstated
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 10 August 2009 05:38 (fourteen years ago) link
This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.
;_;;;;
― °⌉ 3⊥∀N (╓abies), Monday, 10 August 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions..
This video is not available in your country because only Americans can appreciate the country-fried awesomeness.
Fixed.
― amateurist, Monday, 10 August 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
check out the double-necked guitar in that clip!
― amateurist, Monday, 10 August 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link
holy hell that clip is fire
― ^prizes the praise of the media, and the Europeans (will), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
"Are You Sure Hank don it this Way", vocal's apart, wouldn't be amazingly out of place on Velvet's Live '69- try singing Rock n' Roll along with it.
― sonofstan, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
well it is mostly a vamp.
― amateurist, Monday, 10 August 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This video is not available in your country due to copyright restrictions.. This video is not available in your country because only Americans can appreciate the country-fried awesomeness.Fixed.― amateurist, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:41 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark
― amateurist, Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:41 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark
But I AM American!!1 (just in a far away land)
I've been listening to nothing but Waylon for the last week or so! Honky Tonk Heroes I tend to jump around a lot cuz I'm mostly familiar Shaver's versions of them (what a perfect dude's tunes for Waylon to sing, though!) The Taker/Tulsa has been giving me a lotta joy, and the tile track from Singer Of Sad Songs has found itself on repeat more than few times, though I can't find the album to save my life (*COUGH* *HINT*) But if the rest holds up to that track in the slightest I imagine it's fairly essential. I'm curious to hear what the rest sounds like production-wise, too, that being the only track on the album not produced by Lee Hazlewood.
― oing oing oing (╓abies), Saturday, 5 September 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i been jamming a couple waylon LPs a lot this week--the taker/tulsa, and singer of sad songs. love him.
― ian, Sunday, 6 September 2009 00:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.thegenealogytree.com/howard-gallery/celebrities/images/hhoward3.jpg
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Saturday, 31 July 2010 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
^harlan howard greeting waylon after hearing his new power electronics outfit
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Saturday, 31 July 2010 00:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i like this so much better than Willie's, and probably better that the studio version from the unfuckwithable Willie & Waylon record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTAao4Ofx5w
― I'm 11 and I love Gay Dad. Today's music is so formulaic its appalling. (will), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
Cowboy Jack C.: "never heard it"Waylon: "never heard it?! you produced it!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugm0JZhX3CI
lol
― I'm 11 and I love Gay Dad. Today's music is so formulaic its appalling. (will), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ wow that clip is fabulous! (Used to play this song in a band, and toward the end of the night, after a few beers, those simple chord changes got challenging because of how long they hang.)
― The hoppiest hop hopper now with xtra hops (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
this is pretty great. shame about the a/v sync issues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khEAuU5ShXs
― I'm 11 and I love Gay Dad. Today's music is so formulaic its appalling. (will), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
waylon jennings y'all
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:34 (twelve years ago) link
he is my man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zEloppnq8
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
In those Waylon/Jessi clips he seems so weathered compared to her. Hard livin'...
Wiki says her mother was a Pentecostal preacher and her father was a racecar driver (which sounds like a Southern Culture on the Skids song!) Also never knew she was married to Duane Eddy.
― Blue Doggie Sweater (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
much love for Waylon
wish a lot of his canonical/earlier stuff was easier to find
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
of all the genres I listen to, country seems the most poorly served in the reissue/archival dept
that albums is p darn good! i was just listening to an lp from about the same time of all harlan howard jams, like that one a lot, too.
that tulsa song upthread is one of my favorites. i've been keeping my eye open for that taker/tulsa album for a while, figuring it would pop up sooner or later, but i might just have to shell out the damn ebay prices. that one and singer of sad songs always felt to me like key turning points before all the outlaw business went full-on
― arby's, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Harlan Howard's songbook is a goldmine
I don't have Singer of Sad Songs... I grabbed a whole shit-ton of albums from that dude that had the whole discography up awhile ago (which I assume has been taken down by now). Finding actual copies of any of Waylon's pre-outlaw era stuff is pretty hard though. Which is too bad cuz I think Waylon's late 60s stuff is my favorite.
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Collector's Choice did twofers of the 60s RCA albums, but like all CCM titles, they are now oop.
― Electro-Shock Rory (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
I grabbed a whole shit-ton of albums from that dude that had the whole discography up awhile ago (which I assume has been taken down by now).
nope it's still there.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 14 June 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
blogger has been removed
― arby's, Thursday, 14 June 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
???
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 14 June 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh i guess it has as of last week. oh well, guy was cruising for a bruising.
yeah definitely
country seems like the one genre, oddly, that is really shafted in terms of internet distro - there aren't historical archivist blogs (well, not many) posting stuff, tons of things are out of print or never made it to CD at all, etc. bums me out.
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
i'd kinda lump this one with taker/tulsa and singer of sad songs, too, tho i like those two better.
http://www.audiophileusa.com/covers400water/64141.jpg
this cover of mickey newbury's 33rd of august is pretty awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3Jw-7J09RY
i haven't heard don't think twice, which is sandwiched in these someplace, i've kept my eye out for it. anyone know that one?
― arby's, Thursday, 14 June 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
there are a ton of country LP/78 blogs.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
do tell
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
I mean I do some periodic trawling for 50s and 60s stuff and it's usually pretty slim pickings
for example been looking online for this and never seen it anywhere. and no I'm not buying the CD twofer that has this and Coat of Many Colors on it (I already have Coat of Many Colors)
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1982-Silver-Eagle-Waylon-Jennings-Outlaws-Tour-Bus-/171000951136?forcev4exp=true#v4-39
"There are about 23 different phrases that rotate on the front of the bus: EatUrHeartOut,Room for One More, Party Time, WHEREIN THE HELL R WE, Outlaws, ect.."
― brio, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
I was just coming here to post that. ILX fundraiser!
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
omg official ILX Outlaws bus yessssss
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
shared on FB today:
https://scontent-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1476009_10152081994912445_606308061_n.jpg
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
amazing story in the OUTLAW book that came out this year about Waylon writing a guy a $4,000 check on a paper bag and the bank actually cashing it.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 December 2013 21:50 (ten years ago) link
other good stories about Waylon's most crippling addiction... pinball.
― tylerw, Monday, 23 December 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 December 2013 21:57 (ten years ago) link
"That hairy, smelly Outlaw sure plays a mean pinball..."
― Maintenance Engineer of Foolhardiness (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 23 December 2013 22:01 (ten years ago) link
i think roughly 80% of the best videos on youtube belong to waylon, this among them:
"it don't make no sense. i mean, it does, but it don't."
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
^^^ That's great. I'd love a solo Waylon album.
― Capitalism Is A Death Cult And Science Is A Whore (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 5 December 2015 19:53 (eight years ago) link
"we had it all"
fuck
― droit au butt (Euler), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
this shit is hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCz-zA83q8
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 14 June 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Make phasers country again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NWi1Kl1_qM
― Neal Cassady, Saturday, 25 April 2020 06:22 (three years ago) link
Thought she was the creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaammmmmmOf the Basin Street queens
love it. wish he had done a cosmic solo guitar record.
― Corduroy Stridulations (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 25 April 2020 08:15 (three years ago) link
^ Hard agree on that imaginative solo record. What is the stage in life where you give up searching for the next obscure rural rock album and you instead just throw on the Honky Tonk Heroes LP?
I've come to the conclusion that live 70s Waylon is Cosmic American Music and should receive the same hype as anything from the Dead or the New Riders. The only downside is that you just wish he would've expanded on that last 10 sec hard riff in "Honky Tonk Heroes" for an extra 7 or 15min. But I do think it is the shortness of the tunes that allow for amazing replayability… that and the songwriting. The guitarist Tom Carter made a post on social a couple months back that talked about the motorik qualities of “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?”.
― Neal Cassady, Friday, 26 June 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link
What's the best 70's Waylon live recording?
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Friday, 26 June 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
In addition to just a few well-recorded official live 70s releases, there is a whole lot of other 70s stuff spread throughout the years in different formats. It looks like some of them are boots and some are unofficially-released live broadcasts from radio stations. I started with the 1975 "Waylon Live" RCA release that was eventually expanded into a 2CD set in the 2000's. He keeps it pretty tight and succinct on that one. And then you do find much more raw and at least partly jammed songs on the boots and radio broadcasts.
There is a keyboard player on the Sugarloaf show which I do really like. "Louisiana Women" is my current favorite song, at some point he took out the lyric about a kilo of marijuana when he went and did those mid-late TV performances that you can find throughout YouTube. There are some real gems in those videos too. Here's some links to the ones I just mentioned. The YouTube thumbnail used for the Sugarloaf show looks like it was used for a series of live releases, so I need to take some time and check out those as well.
(1973-11-04) Abbot, TexasDiscogsYouTube
(1975-08-02) Sugarloaf, MaineDiscogsYouTube
(1975, RCA release) Waylon LiveDiscogsYouTube
― Neal Cassady, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Sorry, the URL to the expanded 1975 RCA release should have linked you to the whole YouTube playlist. I'll try again:
― Neal Cassady, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
Thanks, will check these out.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
motorik qualities of “Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?”
this is otm!
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah! That one plays itself in mah head fairly often. Tyler refers up this thread to Michael Streissguth's Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades, which I carried on about over on Good Books About Music, incl this:We also get the influence of fuckin'-finally affordable and widely available cocaine (esp. after the War on Drugs made it more practical than bulky etc. ol' maryjane). Influence incl. on Waylon, who was already driven and drivin', with much more of the earlier zig-zag career than I'd realized (had the big country version of "MacArthur Park"!) Also quite the appetite for pinball and good cover material, which he could find even or especially on the shittiest-sounding demo tapes. Thought, as the author depicts, that the Outlaw hype was a crock, and of course he did sound more like a big ol' teddy bear, even then.
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
Still want to check some of those odd-looking pre-Outlaw releases---the earliest recordings I've heard were later compiled on Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line, a '74 cash-in: mainly remember the title track and "Nashville Bum": "You can change a word or two and I'll give half of it to you," also about "eating ketchup soup." Pretty calm, just a leetle hopeful, a way of life. Good track.Also! I liked Waylon Forever, did not know it was part of this eventual release (thanks Wiki):In 1996, (Shooter) Jennings and his father recorded an album together. They called it Fenixon (a play on the words "phoenix" and "sun") but could not find a label to distribute it.[4] Some of the material was remastered and used for the album Waylon Forever. The full Fenixon recording was finally released by Jennings' label Black Country Rock in 2014.
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
Be sure to check out Singer of Sad Songs, mostly produced by Lee Hazlewood before he moved to Sweden. Includes versions of "Honky Tonk Women", "No Regrets", "If I Were A Carpenter", and a duet w/Lee on "Rock, Salt and Nails".
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
Makes you wish there was a 'Waylon Sings Lee' album.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Huge fan of 'Singer of Sad Songs', a real gem
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link
Still want to check some of those odd-looking pre-Outlaw releases---the earliest recordings I've heard werelater compiled on Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line, a '74 cash-in: mainly remember the title track and "Nashville Bum": "You can change a word or two and I'll give half of it to you," also about "eating ketchup soup." Pretty calm, just a leetle hopeful, a way of life. Good track.
Ketchup soup line ftw. I got this comp a couple months ago and it's good!
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I think that, while he's trying to share, sell, get a little advance on publishing rights, he's having a power lunch of Ketchup soup---think that's how the soup reference fits into the verse. Right?
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
I think the song is one of his many cynically complaining about the Nashville/Opry game. He's dressing the way they want him to, singing the way they want him to, and writing the songs they want, but he still isn't making it and he's so poor he's got to eat ketchup soup and crackers. When he does write a hit, they make him give half the songwriting credit to someone else.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 21:57 (three years ago) link
yeah. I should just listen to the damn thing again, prob on YouTube, but seemed like it worked because of concise lyrics, Waylon-trademark catchy beat, and not too much self-pity, kind a "King of the Road" effect.
― dow, Monday, 29 June 2020 23:30 (three years ago) link
It's on the Nashville Rebel soundtrack album (alongside a cover of "Norwegian Wood"!), which is on Spotify.
Unlike a lot of other vintage Country stars, Waylon's actually pretty well covered on Spotify.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 June 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
Man, can you all tell me where moments like the last 55 seconds come from on Honky Tonk Heros at the Sugarload, Maine show? Not the usual change up riff that he always ends that song with, but the thing they throw in at the end. Especially when the keyboard and fuzz guitar go back and forth like two times before they end it abruptly. You can find little outro moments like that in the live the shows, but this one is defiantly a particular sound from that decade in time. Were Waylon and his band just fans of what harder rock acts were doing at the time? Why don't you see stuff like that on his records when you hear about how he was specific about using his road band in the studio?
hxxps://youtu.be/5MktqJyC_ZE?t=198
― Neal Cassady, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 14:41 (three years ago) link
Honky Tonk Heroes is the Vinyl Me, Please Country title for August.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
All I want in life is to be able to sing “dreaming my dreams” as tenderly as this man does
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:51 (two days ago) link
otm! one of my favorite waylon songs.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:53 (two days ago) link