Waylon Jennings:

Heartaches By The Number:(1972)

A budget label compilation comprised of material from three earlier Jennings albums. Key track on this album for me is the reggae tinged Time To Bum Again.

Ol' Waylon:(1977)

One of his best selling albums, with terrific production by Chips Moman. And, though Luckenback, TX was the big hit, for me the key track is the cover of Willis Alan Ramsey's Satin Sheets.

I've Always Been Crazy:(1978)

I feel like this was Waylon at the hight of his Outlaw swagger, coke addled, and burning out. The look on his face on the cover says it all. Key track here: Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand.

Waylon Jennings is a mountain. An iconic musical symbol of the American spirit. He is Rock'n'Roll. An individual who when faced with the industry not coming his way plowed his own path, and left a new highway behind him. That defiance and strength comes through in every song he ever sang, and at the same time you can hear sensitivity and tenderness, perhaps that came from having had to do it that way.