Waylon Jennings - I've Always Been Crazy
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Artist: Waylon JenningsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-08-10
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- I've Always Been Crazy
- Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand
- Billy
- A Long Time Ago
- As The 'Billy World Turns
- Medley Of Buddy Holly Hits: Well All Right - It's So Easy - Maybe Baby - Peggy Sue - Waylon & The Crickets
- I Walk The Line - Waylon & The Crickets
- Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
- Girl I Can Tell (You're Trying To Work It Out)
- Whistlers And Jugglers
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Free Music Review: Back when music was worth listening too...
Hit: 5 Stars
"Be careful of something that's just what you want it to be," Waylon sings on the opening song. A little later: "Women have been my trouble since I found out they weren't men." These two quotes summarize this legendary album: perfection and suspicion, love and heartbreak. This is a mostly autobiographical album about an outlaw who made music the way he--and his fans--wanted it made.
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CRAZY is pure Waylon Jennings--there's not much I can say beyond that. He wrote or cowrote most of the tunes, the highlites being the title track, "A Long Time Ago" (definitely an autobiographical number, written with Shel Silverstein), the slap-stick, Roger Miller-esque "As the 'Billy World Turns", and the growled "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand." But his choice of covers is impeccable. Tony Joe White's "Billy" is haunting and picturesque, delivered in a way that will entrance you. He covers several Buddy Holly hits in a worthy tribute to his departed comrade, and turns Cash's "I Walk the Line" into a mellow, bluesy ballad (it takes guts to do that; it takes skill to pull it off). Merle Haggard's "The Bottle Let Me Down" is revamped (with original steel picker Ralph Mooney sitting in). The album ends on master-songwriter Shel Silverstein's "Whistlers and Jugglers."
This is a legendary album. Waylon Jennings, to this day, remains unchallenged as one of the greatest performers of all time. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CRAZY is the story of this man's life, more or less...with blasting steel, driving drums, and a voice that will make you forget every other singer you ever heard. It don't get much better than this. Ah, heck, I'll go ahead and say it--you'd have to be crazy to pass this one up.
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As he so often did, Waylon delves into the joys as well as the bumps in the road he'd met in life on this 1978 LP. His honesty hit home, as this superb album spent nearly a year on the charts.Country Music CDs
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