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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074465996192
Format: Original recording remastered
Item Dimensions: 21
Label: Buddha
Manufacturer: Buddha
MPN: 99619
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Buddha
Release Date: June 01, 1999
Studio: Buddha
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According to legend, it was at Willie Nelson's Fourth of July picnic when Waylon Jennings drunkenly promised a nobody named Billy Joe Shaver that he'd record a whole album of his songs. Apparently it wasn't until Shaver threatened physical violence on Jennings (in front of a Nashville studio full of people) that he finally made good on his promise, although Jennings had only recently been granted full artistic control by RCA. The result was a stunning achievement: 1973's Honky Tonk Heroes was the defining record of the anti-Nashville Outlaw movement--the term came after the album--and a cornerstone in country music history. Featuring bare-bones production and plainspoken, hard-nosed lyrics that celebrated personal freedoms and simple pleasures, the record was a far cry from the demure Nashville Sound. In each other, Jennings and Shaver had found a kindred spirit, and together they rewrote the country rulebook. --Marc Greilsamer
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This CD is a 1999 reissue of Jennings's classic country recording from 1974, the first recording on which RCA cut Waylon some creative slack to let him do his own thing. What he did with his hard-won artistic freedom was to lay down a bunch of cuts by writer Billy Joe Shavers. The end result was a recording that still sounds fun more than 25 years later. Most of the lyrics indulge in all sorts of "outlaw" hyperbole and hoopla, but Waylon delivers them as though he believes every word. The instrumentation ... Read More
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I have most of waylons albums...If I should choose one album,,this is the one, it simply does not get better than thins.
The wonderfull album "dreaming my dreams" do have a more polich sound,,this one is raw, that is just the right sound for Waylon.
The songs are all superb, they all stand together, They are abouth the modern cowboys, and the different 'stages of teir lives. From "ride me down easy" "black Rose" to "we had it all"
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Back in my younger days I listened to quite a bit of country music. Mind you this was back before country had come into fashion, so I recieved more then my share of guff for doing something so uncool. Then I got lead away by the siren call of rock, country got popular, and I got guff for not listening to it.
As I've gotten older my musical appetite has grown broader and I found myself looking to revisit country, but I ran into the issue of where to start. Honestly most of the stuff I heard on the ... Read More
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Honky Tonk Heroes (1973) is an album of tough free-spirited road songs that have recorded with economic arrangements and instrumentation. They're sung by a man who believes in the songs enough bring them all to life. They were all written by Billy Joe Shaver, and the lyrics are simple, but thoughtful in the way they express an honest and moving witness to the unconventional world of free living. In Willy The Wandering Gypsy And Me, Waylon sings:
Willy, you're wild as a Texas Blue Norther
Ready ... Read More
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