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The Essential Waylon Jennings (RCA Nashville/Legacy)
05/01/2007 | Rca
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All Music Guide Review
There have been plenty of Waylon Jennings compilations released over the years, most of them good but few capturing the full scope of his career. RCA/Legacy's 2007 double-disc set The Essential Waylon Jennings -- not to be confused with the single-disc comp of about a decade earlier -- comes the closest, just edging out the previous two-CD standard-bearer, RCA Country Legends (which itself replaced the excellent two-CD Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line), as the best concise overview on the market. This begins a bit earlier than RCA Country Legends, starting with "Big Mamou" and "That's the Chance I'll Have to Take," and wraps up a bit earlier, not digging as deep into the '80s recordings, which is no great loss. Essential runs two songs longer than Legends, but it has two big omissions in Billy Joe Shaver's "Black Rose" and Toy Caldwell's "Can't You See," but overall this 2007 set has is a stronger set from beginning to end, containing almost all the big hits -- from "Stop the World (And Let Me Off)" through "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" and "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" to "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way," "Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" and "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" -- and containing no fat, making this an excellent overview and introduction to Waylon's prime. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
The Essential Waylon Jennings (RCA Nashville/Legacy) Track Listing
Credits of The Essential Waylon Jennings (RCA Nashville/Legacy)
- Ken Mansfield
- Producer
- Neal Matthews
- Vocals
- Martha McCrory
- Cello
- Gene Merlino
- Vocals
- Chips Moman
- Guitar, Producer
- Ralph Mooney
- Dobro, Guitar (Steel)
- Laverna Moore
- Vocals
- Richard Morris
- Marimba
- Wayne Moss
- Guitar
- Dan Mustoe
- Drums
- Fred Newell
- Guitar
- Louis Dean Nunley
- Vocals
- Joe Osborne
- Bass
- June Page
- Vocals
- Gary S. "Flip" Paxton
- Vocals
- Gordon Payne
- Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
- Norbert Putnam
- Bass
- Billy Ray Reynolds
- Guitar
- Leon Rhodes
- Bass
- Temple Riser
- Vocals
- Hargus "Pig" Robbins
- Piano
- Barny Robertson
- Piano, Keyboards
- Carter Robertson
- Vocals
- Gary Scruggs
- Guitar, Harmonica, Producer
- Randy Scruggs
- Guitar
- Dale Sellers
- Guitar
- Don Sheffield
- Trumpet
- Don Smith
- Bass
- Steven Maxwell Smith
- Violin
- Bee Spears
- Bass
- Maurice Spears
- Trombone
- Glen Spreen
- Arranger
- Hugh Stoker
- Vocals
- Henry Strzelecki
- Bass
- Bobby Thompson
- Guitar
- George Tidwell
- Trumpet
- Gary VanOsdale
- Viola
- David Vanderkooi
- Cello
- Sharon Vaughn
- Vocals
- Billy Joe Walker, Jr.
- Guitar
- Raymond Walker
- Vocals
- Rance Wasson
- Guitar
- Bergen White
- Arranger
- Larry Whitmore
- Guitar
- John "Bucky" Wilkin
- Guitar
- Stephanie Woolf
- Violin
- Reggie Young
- Guitar
- Becky Williams
- Vocals
- Roy Huskey Jr.
- Bass
- Priscilla Ann Hubbard
- Vocals
- Mack Johnson
- Trumpet
- Larrie Londin
- Drums
- Charlie McCoy
- Bass, Harmonica
- Johnny Whiteside
- Liner Notes
- Dee Moeller
- Organ, Piano
- Bob Tebow
- Vocals
- Fred Carter, Jr.
- Guitar
- Jim Haber
- Keyboards
- Gary Paxton
- Vocals
- Alan Messer
- Photography
- Howard Fritzson
- Art Direction
- David Gahr
- Cover Photo
- Vic Anesini
- Mastering
- Raeanne Rubenstein
- Photography
- Rob Santos
- Compilation Producer
- Andy McMahon
- Organ
- Michael Putland
- Photography
- Charlyn Zlotnik
- Photography, Tray Photo
- Jeremy Holiday
- Packaging Manager
- Mike Curry
- Design
- Jimmy Gray
- Guitar
- Fletcher Watson
- Guitar
- Ernest West
- Vocals
- Joe Allen
- Bass, Guitar
- William "Billy" Brown
- Vocals
- Kay Klinger
- Vocals
- Bobby Thompson
- Guitar
- Lee Thomas Miller
- Bass
- Shooter Jennings
- Compilation Producer
- David Paul Briggs
- Piano
- James D. Musil
- Producer
- William Wright
- Vocals
- David Carroll Kirby
- Guitar
- Jim Gordon
- Saxophone
- Lawrence Herzberg
- Violin
- E. Duane West
- Vocals
- Zak Profera
- A&R
- Tommy Williams
- Fiddle
- William Joor
- Trumpet
- Sonny Curtis
- Guitar
- Pete Drake
- Guitar (Steel)
- Tompall Glaser
- Producer
- Anita Kerr
- Vocals
- Jessi Colter
- Organ, Piano, Vocals
- Martin Katahn
- Violin
- Steven Berkowitz
- A&R
- Will Ackerman
- Drums
- Ritchie Albright
- Drums, Producer
- Anita Kerr Singers
- Performer
- Byron Bach
- Cello
- Brenton Banks
- Violin
- Lea Jane Berinati
- Vocals
- Matt Betton
- Drums
- George Binkley III
- Violin
- Jimmy Bowen
- Producer
- Jerry Bridges
- Bass, Guitar, Producer
- Don Brooks
- Harmonica
- Larry Butler
- Organ
- Kenneth A. Buttrey
- Drums
- Larry Byrom
- Guitar
- Jimmy Capps
- Guitar
- Jerry Carrigan
- Drums
- Vangie Carmichael
- Vocals
- Marvin Chantry
- Viola
- Chip Young
- Guitar
- Roy Christensen
- Cello
- Johnny Christopher
- Guitar
- Jack Clement
- Producer
- Charles Cochran
- Piano
- Jim Colvard
- Guitar
- Roger Crabtree
- Harmonica
- Glen D. Hardin
- Piano
- Danny Davis
- Producer
- Dottie DeLeonibus
- Vocals
- Dorothy Dillard
- Vocals
- Ronald Drake
- Vocals
- Bobby Dyson
- Bass
- Ray Edenton
- Guitar
- Dolores Edgin
- Vocals
- Stan Farber
- Vocals
- D.J. Fontana
- Drums
- Paul Foster
- Bass, Guitar
- Carl Gay
- Guitar
- Duke Goff
- Bass
- Carl Gorodetzky
- Violin
- Jerry Gropp
- Guitar
- John Guerin
- Drums
- Ron Haffkine
- Producer
- Lennie Haight
- Violin
- Buddy Harman
- Drums
- Hoyt Hawkins
- Vocals
- Sherman Hayes
- Bass
- Eddie Hinton
- Guitar
- Ginger Holladay
- Vocals
- Mary Holladay
- Vocals
- John Leslie Hug
- Guitar
- John Jarvis
- Synthesizer, Piano
- Bunky Keels
- Piano
- Sheldon Kurland
- Violin
- Kyle Lehning
- Trumpet
- Ronnie Light
- Producer
- Chet Atkins
- Producer
- Floyd Cramer
- Piano
- Johnny Gimble
- Guitar
- Waylon Jennings
- Guitar, Producer, Vocals
- Willie Nelson
- Guitar, Vocals, Producer
- Ray Pennington
- Producer
- Jerry Reed
- Guitar
- Buddy Spicher
- Fiddle
- Ray Stevens
- Organ, Piano, Vibraphone
- John Jackson
- Project Director
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