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Honky Tonk Heroes (Remaster) (CD)

By: Waylon Jennings (Artist)

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Waylon Jennings Artist Snapshot:

Texan country singer Waylon Jennings was always a bit of a rocker. Early on, he played bass with Buddy Holly, and his first solo records included Beatles covers, highly unusual for a country artist at the time. Jennings was one of the key figures of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, rejecting the lush countrypolitan sound in favor of a raw, electrified approach that owed more to the Rolling Stones than to Billy Sherrill. With a small band and simple arrangements, Jennings introduced contemporary rock-oriented grooves into his hard-hitting country sound, adding some funky grit to common-man poetics on tunes about the tougher side of life. He inspired a subsequent generation of country iconoclasts, and spurred on contemporaries like Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser.

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DISC 1 for Honky Tonk Heroes (Remaster) (CD) Album By Waylon Jennings (Artist)
1   Honky Tonk Heroes
2   Old Five And Dimers (Like Me)
3   Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me
4   Low Down Freedom
5   Omaha
6   You Ask Me To
7   Ride Me Down Easy
8   Ain't No God In Mexico
9   Black Rose
10   We Had It All
11   Slow Rollin' Low - (bonus track)
12   You Ask Me To - (single version, bonus track)
 

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Spin (7/99, p.138) - 8 (out of 10) - "...[Waylon Jennings] brought his own band into the studio and self-produced a concept album that became the template for a movement....the raw presentation...changed the rules in Nashville...forever..."

Title Note

Personnel include: Waylon Jennings (vocals, guitar); Dave Kirby, Eddie Hinton, Jerry Gropp, Randy Scruggs, Steve Young (guitar); Reggie Young, Billy Sanford, Dale Sellers (electric guitar); Ralph Mooney (steel guitar); Brenton Banks, Stephanie Woolf (violin); Marvin Chantry (viola); Byron Bach (cello); Donnie Brooks (harmonica); David Briggs (piano); Andy McMahon (organ); Henry Strzelecki, Joe Allen, Bee Spears (bass instrument); Richie Albright, Willie Ackerman, Buddy Harman (drums).

Recording information: Nashville Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee (1973).

This is the quintessential "Outlaw country" album. Waylon Jennings spent the early '70s working his way up to this rough-and-tumble masterpiece, arguably the finest album of his prolific career. Jennings was so taken with the songwriting of Nashville rowdy Billy Joe Shaver that he decided to record this all-Shaver album (with the exception of the Fritts/Seals-penned "You Asked Me To"), which helped put Shaver on the map as the poet laureate of the Outlaw set.

Jennings eschewed the lush countrypolitan sound in favor of a raw, electrified approach that owed more to the Rolling Stones than to Billy Sherrill. With a small band and simple arrangements, he introduced contemporary rock-oriented beats into his hard-hitting country sound, adding some funky grit to Shaver's common-man poetics on tunes about the tougher side of life. HONKY TONK HEROES inspired a subsequent generation of country iconoclasts, as well as spurring on Jennings's contemporaries like Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser. It stands as one of the most important country recordings of the '70s.

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