Waylon Jennings - Waylon Live (Expanded Edition)

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Free Music Review: Waylon doin what Waylon did best - 42 trax -- LIVE!!
Hit: 5 Stars

RCA released a single LP with 11 of 'em in '76
BUDDHA gave us 9 more in '99

On May 20th - RCA Heritage gave us what we've been waiting for all these years. The original 20 trax that Waylon envisioned for his double LP....PLUS 22 previously unreleased trax.

This is Waylon doin what he did best - FORTY-TWO trax on 2 CD's.

These recordings capture Waylon in the beginning of what would become his prime - and was he on!

You'll hear new releases of the day such as Honky Tonk Heroes, Amanda, and This Time mixed with some of his re-worked material from his early days with RCA (Stop The World & Let Me Off; Anita You're Dreaming) - along with some old standards for good measure (Me n Bobby McGee; Big Ball in Cowtown; House of the Rising Sun). Each and every one of these 42 trax.......regardless of the songwriter or original artist.....fully "Waylon-ized" in a way only he could achieve.

It's all here, everything we came to love about Waylon: his voice.....his humor.....that unmistakable TELECASTER!!.....his Waylors, who at the time consisted of The Great Ralph Mooney on steel (the foot that made Haggard famous); Richie Albright and his famous kick drum; Duke Goff on bass; Billy Ray Reynolds on guitar; Larry Whitmore on 12 string and Roger Crabtree on harmonica.

The only negative aspect of this collection is the 28 1/2 years it has taken to get it completely from the can onto the shelves.

The liner notes and ne'er before seen pix alone are well worth the price of admission.

Usually, performances this powerful aren't captured on record. This time, they were.

From the liner notes by Rich KIENZLE, May 2003:

"The studio was one type of canvas for Waylon; the stage was entirely different, and the crowds seemed to pump him up every time, even near the end. On January 5th & 6th, 2000 -- two years before shaking his mortal coil -- he recorded another live album at Nashville's historic Ryman Auditorium with guest shots by Jessi, Montgomery Gentry, Travis Tritt and John Anderson. Energized by his audience, he gave a performance so spirited and fiery that it belied his failing health.

This collection incorporates the original WAYLON LIVE LP plus 22 additional tunes from the tapes of those three electrifying nights. Hearing him in his prime, ripping, rocking and roaring nonstop, you might conclude that had Waylon never recorded another note, these incendiary, visceral performances would remain a monument to the genius at the essence of the man himself: pure, unadorned and audacious.

Not to mention thoroughly badassed."

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Waylon Jennings
1937.06.15 - 2002.02.13
A vagabond dreamer, a rhymer and singer of songs.
A revolutionary in country music.
Beloved by the world.

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