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WAYLON-LIVE: The Expanded Edition 2 CD set
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Sun November 12, 2006
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$16.99
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Description:
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After nearly 29 years, here's the REST of this historic gold album.
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Waylon Jennings Live
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Jeff Young
Registered: May 2003
Location: Canada
Posts: 23
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Review Date: Thu May 22, 2003
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 5
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It's Waylon Live -- it's all positive.
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took so long to get it outta the can......
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Texas - Sept 1974 - three nites of live recording - FIFTY trax - RCA released 11 of 'em in '76 - BUDDHA gave us 9 more in '99.
On May 20th - RCA Heritage gave us what we been waitin for so long. The 20 trax that Waylon originally envisioned for his double LP....PLUS 22 previously unreleased trax.
Waylon doin what he did best - FORTY-TWO trax on 2 CD's.
The liner notes and ne'er before seen pix alone are well worth the price of admission. The music captures Waylon in the beginning of what would become his prime - and was he on! You'll hear new releases of the day such as Honky Tonk Heroes, Amanda, and This Time mixed with some of his re-worked material from his early days with RCA (Stop The World & Let Me Off; Anita You're Dreaming) - along with some old standards for good measure (Me n Bobby McGee; Big Ball in Cowtown; House of the Rising Sun). Each and every one of these 42 trax.......regardless of the songwriter or original artist.......fully "Waylon-ized" in a way that only he could do.
It's all here, everything we came to love about Waylon: his voice.....his humor.....that unmistakable TELECASTER!!.....his Waylors, who at the time consisted of The Great Moon on steel (the foot that made Haggard famous); Richie and his famous kick drum; Duke Goff on bass; Billy Ray Reynolds on guitar; Larry Whitmore on 12 string and Roger Crabtree on harmonica.
Usually, performances this powerful aren't captured on record. This time, they were.
From the liner notes:
"Hearing him in his prime, ripping, rocking and roaring nonstop, you might conclude that had Waylon never recorded another note, these incendiary, visceral performances would remain a monument to the genius at the essence of the man himself: pure, unadorned and audacious.
Not to mention thoroughly badassed."
Available online and in stores everywhere. Only $16.99 at www.amazon.com
Let's spread the word and give Waylon one more Gold record.
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"When ya got 'em by the balls....their hearts n minds will follow." WGJ
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JeffB
Registered: April 2003
Location: SoCal
Posts: 10
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Review Date: Tue May 27, 2003
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $16.99
| Rating: 5
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Amazing music
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None
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I just wanted to second the recommendation for this album.
The 1999 single disc version has been a constant on our stereo for a few months now. I picked up the 2cd expanded version last week and I'm thrilled with it.
I've had a hard time getting into Waylon's 70's and later recordings. I've had the cds of his studio albums from this period and they never grabbed me the way these live recordings do. I've always liked his early albums like "Leaving Town", but Waylon Live is a treasure. My wife (who didn't like Waylon before) loves this album. She had me get her a copy of it for her car. My 2 year old son always want to hear it.
My wife and I laugh because we always have songs from it in our heads. Just yesterday, we cracked up because we both couldn't get the song "Rainy Day Woman" off of our minds.
If you're just getting into Waylon, I'd try this release. It really is a great cross-section of his songs, and the band was really HOT.
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cowboytwang
Registered: July 2003
Location: mojave desert
Posts: 1567
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Review Date: Sun November 12, 2006
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: Not Indicated
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Waylon and Mooney at their best!
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Should have been put out while Waylon was alive!!
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Waylon always wanted these recordings to be a double album, RCA wouldn't do it and told him they lost the masters. Then after Waylon dies, RCA mysteriously finds all the recordings, and FINALLY releases it the way it should have been 30 years ago.
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Alvin
http://www.myspace.com/alvinblaine
http://www.oldbluesound.com/about.htm
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Originality is just undetected Plagiarism!
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