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This Time (1974)

Where the lyrics of This Time take you, and where it was really made.

Jennings made this album not in RCA's own studio but at Tompall Glaser's 'Hillbilly Central' in Nashville, after growing tired of RCA engineers reporting his every move to executives upstairs.

Key places

Where Jennings recorded after leaving RCA's studios (1974)

Recording site Quad Studios — Jennings chose Tompall Glaser's Glaser Sound studio, nicknamed Hillbilly Central, to record this album after tiring of RCA's close supervision. The first song recorded there in October 1973 was J.J. Cale's Louisiana Women. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• This Time: 20th studio album by American country artist Waylon Jennings
• Released in 1974 on RCA Victor, at the peak of the outlaw country movement
• Produced by Jennings and Willie Nelson
• Release month given as April 1974
• Recorded at Glaser Sound, Tompall Glaser's studio at 916 Nineteenth Avenue South in Nashville

Background

• By 1972 Jennings had won artistic autonomy from RCA, which allowed him to produce his own records
• RCA executives still watched his sessions closely at RCA Victor Studios
• They had even delayed the release of his 1973 album Honky Tonk Heroes
• According to Jennings's autobiography, RCA engineers constantly called upstairs to executive Jerry Bradley to report on his work
• Fed up with the friction, Jennings chose to record his next album at Glaser Sound, with Willie Nelson co-producing
• The studio was nicknamed "Hillbilly Central"
• Tompall Glaser was a Nashville veteran who became famous with the Glaser Brothers
• Glaser had co-produced Honky Tonk Heroes, a touchstone of the outlaw country movement

Recording

• The first song Jennings recorded at Glaser's in October 1973 was J.J. Cale's "Louisiana Women"
• Kyle Lehning engineered the sessions
• Lehning later became known for producing albums for Randy Travis in the 1980s
• The studio atmosphere was open and informal, with singers, songwriters and Nashville dropouts gathering there
• Sessions often ran until the early morning hours
• Glaser said in the 2003 documentary Beyond Nashville that the bottom end sounded fat and big again after Jennings left RCA
• Jennings said he had a freedom at Glaser's that he did not have anywhere else, and that Nashville was their college town

Cover

• Photography credited to John Donegan, art direction to Herb Burnette

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Career

• Born June 15, 1937 in Littlefield, Texas; American country singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and author.
• Considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement in country music.
• Played in the Texas Longhorns as a teen; worked as a DJ at KLLL in Lubbock.
• Played bass for Buddy Holly on the Winter Dance Party tour; gave up his seat on the plane that crashed in 1959.
• Led the Waylors at JD's club in Phoenix, Arizona, developing a rock-influenced country style.
• Signed with RCA Victor in 1965; gained creative control in the early 1970s with Lonesome, On'ry and Mean and Honky Tonk Heroes.
• Had a number-one hit with "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" from Dreaming My Dreams.
• Recorded Wanted! The Outlaws with Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter, the first platinum country album.
• Narrated and sang the theme for The Dukes of Hazzard, "Good Ol' Boys", which became his biggest hit.
• Joined Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash in the Highwaymen.
• Overcame cocaine addiction in 1984.
• Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001; died February 13, 2002 in Chandler, Arizona.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• Billboard's unnamed writer said Waylon kept his style with the help of his good friend Willie Nelson and pleased everyone
• Cash Box praised Waylon's vocal power and his skill as a singer, and noted he arranged and co-produced the whole LP with Nelson
• Record World said Waylon's deep, rich voice was enhanced by the production of Waylon and Willie Nelson, with Don Brooks's harmonica adding a special touch
• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that the monochromaticity makes it no lesser affair than its predecessor, though the album feels a bit reserved and not quite as overpowering as a sequel to Honky Tonk Heroes should be
• Erlewine called it a first-rate record, perhaps not a classic, but a subdued, understated album unlike anything else in Jennings's catalog

Records

• Peaked at number 4 on the Billboard country albums chart
• That was Jennings's best showing on that chart since 1967

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Trivia

• The first song Jennings recorded at Glaser's in October 1973 was J.J. Cale's "Louisiana Women", with Kyle Lehning engineering.
• Lehning contributed Wurlitzer electric piano to the Cale song and the trumpet part to "Heaven and Hell".
• Tompall Glaser had co-produced Honky Tonk Heroes, the album whose delayed release by RCA irritated Jennings.
• Former employees recalled Willie Nelson lazing on the front lawn of the Hillbilly Central offices.
• Glaser said in Beyond Nashville (2003) that the sound became fat and big again once Jennings moved away from RCA.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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