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Waymore's Blues (Part II) (1994)

Where the lyrics of Waymore's Blues (Part II) take you, and where it was really made.

This 1994 album was a one-off return to RCA for Waylon Jennings, and its title track never charted as a single.

Key places

Ocean Way Recording, Nashville (1994)

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Album story

Overview

• Waymore's Blues (Part II): 42nd studio album by American country artist Waylon Jennings
• Released by RCA Records on September 13, 1994
• Ten tracks, all written by Jennings except where noted
• Produced by Don Was
• Tony Joe White plays guitar and harmonica on the album
• The title refers to an earlier, popular Jennings composition
• Reached number 63 on the country charts

Background

• Recorded and released while Jennings was not signed to any major label
• A one-off return to RCA after short stints at MCA Records and Epic Records
• Don Was later lent his production style to The Highwaymen's The Road Goes on Forever, a year after this album
• Jennings recalled that Was wanted an instrumental texture, a pad of colors, rather than the usual trading of licks
• Was called the sound impressionistic, like a painting
• Jennings said he and the band clicked from the start of the first take, which was the title track
• He told the musicians to forget everything they had ever heard him do
• Jennings later said he was proud of the album because it felt like he was back in command of himself

Recording

• Personnel: Jennings on vocals and guitar; Kenny Aronoff on drums; Mark Goldenberg on accordion and guitar; Benmont Tench on organ; Robby Turner on pedal steel and resonator guitar; Don Was on bass
• The recording location listed is Ocean Way Recording in Nashville

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

• In his 1996 memoir Waylon, Jennings reflected on several tracks
• He called Old Timer very dear to his heart, a poignant tale about an old mountain man from Jackson Hole, Wyoming
• Of Wild Ones, he recalled times when he, Willie and Jessi came to town and shook up Nashville's hierarchy in their fight to keep the music honest
• Of Endangered Species, he wrote that videos had shifted the emphasis and fantasy away from hearing the song
• Of the title track, he said he still voiced macho lines but probably no longer felt the need to live up to them
• He said he was proud of the album because it felt like he was back in command of himself

Reappraisal

• Members of the Western Writers of America chose The Old Timer as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time
• Whatever Happened to the Blues, an outtake co-written with Tony Joe White, closed the 1996 RCA compilation The Essential Waylon Jennings

Records

• Reached number 63 on the country charts
• No singles from the album charted
• Wild Ones was made into a music video in 1994

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The title track's reference points back to an earlier, popular Jennings composition.
• You Don't Mess Around with Me was used in the soundtrack to the movie Maverick, which also featured Jennings on Amazing Grace.
• Wild Ones was made into a music video in 1994.
• In his 1996 memoir Waylon, Jennings reflected on several of the album's cuts.
• Members of the Western Writers of America later chose The Old Timer as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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