Complete McA Recordings

Jennings, Waylon

Jennings, Waylon / Complete McA Recordings
Genre: music4me > Country
Format: 2 CD
Released: Tue 25 May 2004
Catalogue Number: MCANB000092602.2

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Description:
Personnel: Waylon Jennings (vocals, guitar); John Anderson , Johnny Cash (vocals).
Recording information: 1986 - 1989.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using 24-bit technology.
After bottoming out in a haze of drugs and bad decisions, Outlaw Country pioneer Waylon Jennings left his longtime label RCA for MCA Records, turning out four albums during his mid-1980s tenure there. Those albums are included in their entirety on this double-disc collection, which documents the period where Waylon began to relocate himself both personally and musically. His full-fledged artistic reawakening didn't really kick in until the '90s, but there are still many signs of life to be found here. Though Jimmy Bowen's very '80s-sounding production gives the tracks a bit of an impersonal feel, there's no dampening a spirit like Waylon's, and the singer's country soul comes through loud and clear on wisely chosen covers (Los Lobos' "Will the Wolf Survive?," Steve Earle's "The Devil's Right Hand") and trenchant new material (the powerfully heartbreaking "Crying Don't Even Come Close" stands out mightily).
Granted, there are a few curious moments--it's hard to figure why Waylon chose to cover the '70s pop hits "Baker Street" and "Chevy Van"--but they don't sink the ship. To hear Waylon tearing into the bluesy Rodney Crowell co-write "Woman I Hate It" or deftly navigating Jesse Winchester's metaphysical ballad "Defying Gravity (Executioner's Song)" is to be reminded of the gifts that made Jennings a country star in the first place.

Details:

  • Discs: 2

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.  Will the Wolf Survive ?
2.  They Aint Got Em All
3.  Working Without a Net
4.  Where Does Love Go
5.  That Dog Wont Hunt
6.  What Youll Do When Im Gone
7.  Suddenly Single
8.  Rush Hour
9.  Ive Got Me a Woman
10.  Devils Right Hand, The
11.  Baker Street
12.  I Cant Help the Way I Dont Feel About You
13.  Rose in Paradise
14.  Crying Dont Even Come Close
15.  Chevy Van
16.  Fallin Out
17.  Deep in the West
18.  Between Fathers and Sons
19.  Crown Prince, The
20.  Defying Gravity (Executioners Song)
21.  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - (With Johnny Cash)
Disk 2
1.  Prologue
2.  Chapter One...Childhood: Littlefield
3.  Chapter Two...Texas: Youll Never Take Texas Out of Me
4.  Chapter Three...First Love: You Went Out with Rock N Roll
5.  Chapter Four...Lost Love: A Love Song (I Cant Sing Anymore)
6.  Chapter Five...Nashville: If Only Hank Could See Us Now
7.  Chapter Six...Crazies: My Rough and Rowdy Days
8.  Chapter Seven...Drugs: Im Living Proof (Theres Life After You)
9.  Chapter Eight...Jessi: You Deserve the Stars in My Crown
10.  Chapter Nine...Reflections: Turn It All Around
11.  Chapter Ten...The Beginning: Where Do We Go from Here
12.  Trouble Man
13.  Grapes On the Vine
14.  Which Way Do I Go (Now That Im Gone)
15.  Yoyos, Bozos, Bimbos & Heroes
16.  It Goes with the Territory
17.  How Much Is It Worth to Live in L.A.?
18.  Hey Willie
19.  You Put the Soul in the Song
20.  G.I. Joe
21.  Woman I Hate
22.  Somewhere Between Ragged & Right - (With John Anderson)

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