TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.6002
Waylon Jennings Album Rankings
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RCA's nine-track 1979Greatest Hitscollection has since been supplemented by more thorough compilations -- most notably the double-disc setsOnly Daddy That'll Walk the LineandRCA Country Legends-- but
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When Waylon Jennings hooked up with songwriterBilly Joe Shaver, he found the perfect author for his obsessions, his fascinations, and his very image.
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Dreaming My Dreamswas Waylon Jennings' first number one record, and deservedly so.
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Prior to 1993's double-disc box setOnly Daddy That'll Walk the Line: The RCA Years, there was no comprehensive collection of Waylon Jennings' seminal RCA recordings, only three LP collections, each ta
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As one of the great live albums,Waylon Liveis nearly flawless, a snapshot of Waylon Jennings at the height of his powers and, not so coincidentally, at the peak of the outlaw movement.
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This Timeappeared just as outlaw hit its stride, thanks in large part to the excellentHonky Tonk Heroes. If this record isn't its equal, it's still pretty wonderful all the same.
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Two of Waylon Jennings' very best albums,The Taker/Tulsa(1970) andHonky Tonk Heroes(1973), both released by RCA, were combined onto a single compact disc by Mobile Fidelity.
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If you look at the cover ofThe Ramblin' Man, you would think that Waylon Jennings had been a ramblin' man, riding the top of the charts, for years, maybe decades.
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Waylon Jennings' 1976 albumWaylon Liveis generally considered as one of the great live albums in country music -- and, when pressed, it's easy to make an argument that it's among the finest of the dec
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Waylon JenningsNashville Rebel[Buy It!] (Columbia Legacy)Neko CaseLive From Austin TX[Buy It!] (New West)With his square face and scraggly hair, Waylon Jennings certainly never looked like a star, eve
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New Classic Waylon compiles the highlights from Jennings' first four albums on MCA, and includes "Fallin' Out," "My Rough and Rowdy Days" and his cover of Los Lobos' "Will the Wolf Survive.
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Waylon Jennings has been gone from this world for more than two years now, and the worthy praise and tributes to him seem forced in some respects.
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Super Hits is an imperfect but entertaining budget-line collection that contains a handful of Waylon's big hits, balanced by some album tracks.
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While the nimrods running country radio continue to act as if anyone over 40 simply doesn't exist anymore, Waylon Jennings continues to use his time in commercial exile by being artistically adventur
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While it has its fair share of big hits and great songs, RCA/Legacy's 2005 release 16 Biggest Hits doesn't necessarily contain all of Waylon's biggest hit singles.
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Ol' Waylon was released when Waylon Jennings had become a superstar. Outlaw was still popular, perhaps at its peak, but it was no longer the movement that it had been just a few short years before.
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Waylon Jennings' artistic fortunes started to sink in the late '70s, as the heady peak of the outlaw years gave way to the aftermath where the musical and personal excesses started to catch up with h
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This album contains "Leavin' Town Again," "Time to Bum Again, " and "Tiger by the Tail, " among other hits.
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On Jennings and Nelson 's last album together, they sit around swapping what are presumably fictitious tales of adventures and misadventures.
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Waylon: The Best of Waylon Jennings is an adequate nine-song budget-line compilation of some of his Top Ten hits from the early '80s, including "Lucille," "Drinkin' and Dreamin'," "I May Be Used (But
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For the first time, I am willing to believe Waylon is an Outlaw: got to be, to record "MacArthur Park (Revisited)" at this point in his career.
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45
The first time Jennings made a pass at an autobiography, he decided to record this album instead.
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Jennings didn't write a single song on this 1987 album, which included Jennings's last No.
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This is pre-outlaw Jennings, though "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" is as t
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