Waylon Jennings

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Sorry, the URL to the expanded 1975 RCA release should have linked you to the whole YouTube playlist. I'll try again:

(1975, RCA release) Waylon Live
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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 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.

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

one year passes...

Honky Tonk Heroes is the Vinyl Me, Please Country title for August.

one year passes...

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 (one month ago) link

otm! one of my favorite waylon songs.

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:53 (one month ago) link


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