Waylon Jennings - Are You Ready for the Country
Our Price: $21.95
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.75 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more new music releases
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store
Canadian Music Store
Music CD Cover
Artist: Waylon JenningsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Are You Ready For The Country
- Them Old Love Songs
- So Good Woman
- Jack-A-Diamonds
- Can't You See
- MacArthur Park (Revisited)
- I'll Go Back To Her
- A Couple More Years
- Old Friend
- Precious Memories
Free Music Notes for Are You Ready for the Country
Free Music Review: (4.5 stars) WAYLON #*@%$*# JENNINGS. THAT'S WHO ! (an outlaw classic)
Hit: 5 Stars
Waylon Jennings' Are You Ready for the Country (1976) is mostly an album of thoughtful and sentimental outlaw reflections, but it includes some songs that are on the rowdy side, too. Waylon looks back through his past in Old Friend, a song he wrote about Buddy Holly. Then he celebrates his wife in So Good Woman, and contemplates faith in the spiritual Precious Memories. Accepting the inevitable, he sings the lament of an aging outlaw coming to terms with the reality of a failed May/December romance in A Couple More Years.
I've walked a couple more roads than you baby, that's all
I'm tired of running and you're only learning to crawl
And you're going somewhere, but I've been to somewhere
And found it was nowhere at all
And I've picked up a couple of more years on you baby, that's all.
Jennings does a great version of Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park (Revisited). Waylon had said he always thought of the sentimental classic as a country song.
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And old men playing checkers by the trees.
Are You Ready For The Country isn't all sentimental reflections and comfortable country songs, either. This guy can rock, too. Waylon was a member of Buddy Holly's touring band, and was giving 'em hell way back when rock n' roll was still in it's infancy. The title song was written by Neil Young, and this version sounds even better than Neil's. That's saying a lot coming from me, as Harvest is one of my all-time favorite albums. Waylon nails The Marshall Tucker Band's Can't You See, too, with a spirited vocal performance and highly charged backup from his band. It was during this mid-to-late 1970s period that Waylon Jennings recorded his best work (Dreaming My Dreams, Honky Tonk Heroes, Waylon Live, and others), and I would consider this album an essential part of that era.
Are You Ready for the Country Poster
Waylon was always sort of a rock-star type within the world of country music, so this 1976 album seemed like a natural-he sings the title Neil Young song (this version cracked the country Top 10) plus songs by the Marshall Tucker Band, Dr. Hook and even Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park . This country classic topped the country album charts for 10 weeks!Country Music CDs
Music Genres
Top music charts in Country Music CDs
Johnie Lewis - Alabama Slide GuitarRelease date: 1998-01-20; Music CD
Best price: $6.97
Price in other shops:
Lightnin Hopkins - Texas BluesRelease date: 1993-11-30; Music CD
Best price: $11.47
Price in other shops:
Lewis - LegendsRelease date: 1986-11-01; Music CD
Price in other shops:
![Hotel California [Vinyl] Image](/images/Hotel-California-Vinyl-B0000001D6-X.jpg)
Eagles - Hotel California [Vinyl]Release date: 1997-12-05; Music CD
Best price: $229.99
Ccr - Bayou CountryRelease date: 1993-06-18; Music CD
Best price: $84.99
Taj Mahal - Senor BluesRelease date: 1997-06-17; Music CD
Best price: $8.99
Price in other shops:
Fonte VivaMusic CD
Blackland Farmer-Complete StarBear Family (GE; Published: 2008-02; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $74.98
Taken By Surpriseby Red Hot Burritos
Published: 1992; Music CD
Best price: $19.99
Christmas Joy: Solo Piano for the Holidaysby Deborah Offenhauser
Pba Music Pub; Published: 2005-11-30; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $23.99
Top Rated Albums
Waylon Jennings - EagleRelease date: 2003-06-24; Music CD
Best price: $2.62
Price in other shops:
Wanted! The OutlawsJENNINGS/NELSON/COLTER/GLASER; Release date: 1996-04-30; Music CD
Best price: $6.53
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - The Taker/ TulsaRelease date: 2008-02-12; Music CD
Best price: $2.90
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - This TimeRelease date: 1999-10-12; Music CD
Best price: $4.77
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - Ramblin ManRelease date: 2000-02-08; Music CD
Best price: $4.73
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - Lonesome On'Ry & MeanRelease date: 2009-08-04; Music CD
Best price: $2.57
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - Ol WaylonRelease date: 2009-12-01; Music CD
Best price: $2.80
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - I've Always Been CrazyRelease date: 2009-12-01; Music CD
Best price: $2.70
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk HeroesRelease date: 1999-06-01; Music CD
Best price: $4.61
Price in other shops:
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming My DreamsRelease date: 2001-10-23; Music CD
Best price: $4.49
Price in other shops: