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To paraphrase one of his best-known songs, mamas didn't want their babies to grow up to be Waylon Jennings--which is just how Jennings wanted it. --David Browne

Essential Listening

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Essential Listening

RCA COUNTRY LEGENDS (RCA, 2001) The best available overview, spanning the '60s through the '80s and chronicling his rise and heyday.

HONKY TONK HEROES (Buddha, 1973) Jennings' artistic coming-out, this set of mostly Billy Joe Shaver barroom ballads remains a blueprint for alt-country.

DREAMING MY DREAMS (Buddha, 1975) Jennings' rough and rowdy ways, underlaid with brooding melancholy, are captured on this lean, authoritative masterpiece.

WAYLON LIVE (Buddha, 1999) This expanded version of the 1976 LP showcases Jennings and his band, the Waylors, at their rattlesnake peak. "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" lives up to all three adjectives.

Originally posted Mar 01, 2002 Published in issue #642 Mar 01, 2002 Order article reprints
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