I'm just finishing up with the 2 posthumous albums of unreleased recordings. I used Spotify which to my knowledge had every album except for the very first (At JD's), and very last 2 (1998's Closing In On The Fire, and 2000's collab album Honky Tonk Heroes). I did somewhere around 48 albums, in chronological order, giving each at least 7 listens. I add the songs I like my main Liked playlist on Spotify, it now has152 Waylon Jennings songs. I expect I'll be in the top 0.001% of Waylon listeners at my end-of-year Spotify Wrapped report.

As you can see I'm a little (a lot) OCD with listening to music, but I love this approach because it forces me to dig deep into an artist's material and get into the culture/history of the time. Ive been reading his autobiography too. Very interesting and good read.

I'm about 40 and this is my first country artist (outside of Taylor Swift's early albums). I come from heavy metal roots, though I've always been open minded and recently decided to venture out into the wilds. And what a fruitful endeavor it's been! 152 Waylon songs in my rotation now.

It's been fun, I love the rock'n'roll, the attitude, the humour, the whoops, the Living Legends reports on Nashville, the collab albums, the guitar picking, the lap steel guitar (Ralph Mooney guitar hero). There are too many gems to list but Honkey Tonk Heroes is probably my favourite album. I'm amazed by how consistent his discography is.

Hi everyone, I just joined this sub 🙋‍♂️ I've been a Waylon fan for three years now and this is my collection so far. Living in Austria, it's not that common to find some Waylon, so there's still a lot missing - however, I managed to find all of these locally (except The Taker and Lonesome; these came from eBay).

Amp Type: Clean. Gain: 3. Volume: 5. Bass: 7. Middle: 6. Treble: 7. Mod: 5 orange. Reverb: 2. Master: whatever. Power Watts: 25 or 50. Use 9 or 8 gauge strings and a 1.0 pick or 1.2. Bridge pickup single coil. Volume on guitar full. Tone on guitar full. Pick close to the bridge. Strum with thumb. Use pick on solos

It's on my back window and most folks don't even notice.

My girl sends me this picture of Waylon on his mandolin and says can you get me one umm angel they are like $20,000 I will work on it !

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Waylon and Richie produced the album and Waylon and the Waylors are on most songs with Willie on one as well. Has a different version of “Ride me Down Easy” and a studio version of “Bob Willis is Still the King”. I couldn’t find the full album on YouTube or streaming, so I had to get it used. If you can find it, I highly recommend it!

Not sure if this has been shared. I love the headstone and the things placed on his headstone.

Lady at the cemetery office said Waylon's is the most inquiried by far!

The second more requested is the gravestone of Miranda, the one law enforcement has to recite: You have the right to remain silent....

Picked up these (plus some Willie) for £15. Some of the sleeves are a little tatty, vinyl is mint. Never Could Toe The Mark is brand new, still sealed. Happy listening all.

About two days ago I noticed that the 84’ live album had been removed from Spotify.

Does anyone have any info on this?

I am a huge fan of Waylon! Started to listen to him back in the early 70's and I got to see him twice in concert.

I could be wrong, but I remember one of songs he sings:

Talking so fast I can't understand what I'm saying

I've searched on Google, duck fuck go with no success

If it was done by another artist, can you let me know?

Love reading the background on his music and his life in this subreddit!

I love when Waylon essentially duets with himself, singing a high harmony part alongside his lead vocal. Examples - Omaha, High Time (You Quit Your Lowdown Ways).

Did he ever sing any leads in his higher register?

The "Wanted: The Outlaws" with Waylon, Willie, Jessi and Tompall Glaser was the very first country album to go platinum (1,000,000+ albums sold). Later Waylon recorded "Ol' Waylon" which was country music's first solo performer to have a platinum album. I was a teenager at the time and my parents were fans so I grew up listening to these (and other) albums

You just can't underestimate the influence he had on country music and what a ground breaker he was.

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Like during the Lonesome, On'ry and Mean period, did Waylon have a main harmonica player or did it change often?

lord I'm travelin this mornin...

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I've searched on YouTube and have failed to find anything, but I'm almost sure he did it sometime.

The Story Behind The Song:

“Just To Satisfy You” (written by Don Bowman and Waylon Jennings)

Bobby Bare (#31, 1965) Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson (#1 country, #52 pop, 1982)

“Just To Satisfy You” is a tune that Waylon Jennings co-wrote with Don Bowman in 1960. The two men had previously worked together as disc jockeys at station KLLL in Lubbock, Texas, but they had eventually gone their separate ways: Bowman taking a job in El Paso and Jennings moving to Phoenix, Arizona. They stayed in touch however, and on occasion Bowman would journey to Phoenix to write songs with his old friend. One such encounter produced “Just To Satisfy You.” At first, Waylon wasn’t happy with the song (he was habitually difficult to please), and he and Don had contemplated just throwing it away. Then at the last minute, they decided to write another verse and a bridge, which made it right and kept the piece from being tossed in the trash can.

Jennings recorded “Just To Satisfy You” several times. The first, for A & M Records, included a harpsichord in the arrangement. It was produced by Herb Alpert (of “Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass” fame several years later). Waylon also cut the song for his RCA audition, an important ingredient in him being signed to the label by executive Chet Atkins. Another RCA artist Bobby Bare released “Just To Satisfy You” in 1965 and it was very well-done, but amazingly failed to become a big hit, topping out at a lukewarm #31. Bobby, for some reason, always had trouble landing in the upper rungs of the national playlists (his signature song “Detroit City” reached only #6 in 1963, and his lone chart-topper was the comedy record “Marie Laveau” in 1974). It wasn’t until 1982, when Jennings teamed with Willie Nelson on “Just To Satisfy You” for the “Black On Black” album, that the song finally made its destination to #1. Waylon found out later that co-writer Don Bowman had been secretly meeting with Nelson, trying to influence him to record “Just To Satisfy You” on the duet sessions with Jennings. It was Willie’s idea to do it more than Waylon’s.

It proved to be a timely decision for Nelson when “Just To Satisfy You” followed his #1 hit “Always On My Mind” to the top. As a result, Willie spent four consecutive weeks at the summit of Billboard’s country singles chart with two different songs. The occasion marked only the ninth time in history (and the first since 1964) that the same performer sewed up the #1 plateau with back-to-back singles. The ’64 event saw Buck Owens (“My Heart Skips A Beat”) follow himself into the top position with “Together Again.”

Like Jennings, Nelson and Bare (sounds like a law firm), “Just To Satisfy You’s” co-writer Don Bowman had a reasonably successful career at RCA also. He recorded comedy LPs for the label between 1964 and 1970, with four of them making the Billboard country album chart. He notched a Top 20 single with his first release “Chit Akins, Make Me A Star,” referencing, of course, RCA’s A & R chief Chet Atkins, and completely destroying the pronunciation and spelling of Chet’s name in the process. Bowman’s 1966 LP “Funny Way To Make An Album” won a Billboard award for “Favorite Country Comedy Recording of the Year,” and Don was named “Comedian of the Year” by the Country Music Association in 1967 (this category was eliminated two years later). Bowman went on to achieve great success on radio as the original host of ABC’s syndicated “American Country Countdown,” from the program’s inception on October 6, 1973 to April of 1978 when Bob Kingsley replaced him. Bowman’s song “Wildwood Weed” became a hit for Jim Stafford, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart in August, 1974.

-From the “Classic Country Music Stories” page on Facebook. Highly recommended following this group of you are on Facebook, a lot of great info.