Waylon Jennings - Box Set Series - Music & Performance - CD

2014 four CD collection from the late Country great. Includes hits, album tracks and fan favorites including 'Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line', 'Lonesome On'ry And Mean', 'Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys' (with Willie Nelson) and many more.

Originally issued as The Music of Waylon Jennings, this box set is part of a Legacy series that essentially packages four career-spanning discs into a semi-long box package containing 45 tracks with a booklet that features a biographical essay and complete track information. This one divides up easily into three categories, "the singer," "the songwriter," and "the collaborator," and Jennings broke ground in all three areas during his career. "The singer" chapter includes music from his groundbreaking RCA period in which he issued a slew of charting country singles. These tracks include his signature reading of Steve Young's "Lonesome On'ry and Mean," "Stop the World (And Let Me Off)," "The Taker," and "Ain't Living Long Like This." The second section showcases the aspect few people really take into account when regarding Jennings, and that is as a songwriter. Some of these tunes, such as "Are Your Sure Hank Done It This Way?" crossed over onto the pop charts as they connected with rock & roll audiences as well as country fans. Other Jennings' classics here include "I've Always Been Crazy," "This Time," "Waymore's Blues," and of course, "Good Ol' Boys," the theme from the television series Dukes of Hazzard. The third phase covers the collaborations Jennings recorded with RCA and Columbia. There are tracks with the Highwaymen that also included Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, and Kris Kristofferson. The tracks on this third CD are mostly stone classics, such as his duets with Nelson on "Good Hearted Woman," "Luckenbach, Texas," and "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," and those with his wife, Jessi Colter: the medley of "Wild Side of Life/It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" and the gorgeous "Storms Never Last." In all, while this isn't a complete portrait of the enigmatic Jennings, it certainly is a well-rounded one. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi

Performer	Waylon Jennings
Music genre	Country
Music release type	Box Set
Media format	CD
Original release date	2014
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	4
Series title	BOX SET SERIES
Track listing	Stop the World (And Let Me Off), (That's What You Get) for Lovin' Me, The Chokin' Kind, Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line, The Taker, Ladies Love Outlaws, Lonesome, On'ry and Mean, I'm a Ramblin' Man, We Had It All, Amanda, Dreaming My Dreams with You (Remastered), The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You), Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will), Drinkin' and Dreamin', I Ain't Living Long Like This, That's the Chance I'll Have to Take, Anita, You're Dreaming, You Ask Me to, This Time, Rainy Day Woman, Bob Wills Is Still the King, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (Remastered), Waymore's Blues, I've Always Been Crazy, Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand, Theme from "The Dukes of Hazzard" (Good Ol' Boys), Shine, Women Do Know How to Carry on, Never Could Toe the Mark, Never Say Die (Live), I Got You, MacArthur Park, Suspicious Minds, Good Hearted Woman, Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love), Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, There Ain't No Good Chain Gang, Night Life, Wild Side of Life, Storms Never Last, Just to Satisfy You, Leave Them Boys Alone, The Conversation, Highwayman, Silver Stallion
Record label	Sony Legacy
Songwriter	Waylon Jennings
Track name	Stop the World (And Let Me Off), (That's What You Get) For Lovin' Me, The Chokin' Kind, Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line, The Taker, Ladies Love Outlaws, Lonesome, On'ry and Mean, I'm a Ramblin' Man, We Had It All, Amanda, Dreaming My Dreams with You, The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You), Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will), Drinkin' and Dreamin', I Ain't Living Long Like This, That's the Chance I'll Have to Take, Anita, You're Dreaming, You Ask Me To, This Time, Rainy Day Woman, Bob Wills Is Still the King, Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way, Waymore's Blues, I've Always Been Crazy, Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got out of Hand, Theme from "The Dukes of Hazzard" (Good Ol' Boys), Shine, Women Do Know How to Carry On, Never Could Toe the Mark, Never Say Die, I Got You, MacArthur Park, Suspicious Minds, Good Hearted Woman, Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love), Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys, There Ain't No Good Chain Gang, Night Life, Wild Side of Life/It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, Storms Never Last, Just to Satisfy You, Leave Them Boys Alone, The Conversation, Highwayman, Silver Stallion
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N