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Waylon & Willie
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  1. Audio CD: Release Date 2001-01-23
  2. Publisher: Buddha
  3. Artist: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
  4. Format: Original recording remastered
  5. Sales Rank in Music: #20659

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So what if this disc doesn't represent the best work of either man--the warm smiles and hugs that dominate the CD's artwork tell the real story. Released in early 1978, Waylon & Willie was a celebration of their triumphant revolution against Nashville's constraints. By then, the war had already been won; each had wrested artistic freedom from the labels and subsequently delivered chart-topping solo albums and singles. The 1976 compilation Wanted! The Outlaws proved to be the ultimate victory--becoming the first country album to go platinum--so by the time they put this album together, Waylon and Willie were at the peak of their commercial powers. There's plenty of great music here as well among the five duets and six solo tracks (three by each), mostly new tunes with some older material thrown in. Not all of it is essential, and Willie's own guitar is nowhere to be found, allowing Jennings's Waylors to deftly handle the musical accompaniment. Still, the cultural importance of Waylon & Willie--it soared to No. 1 on the country chart, stayed there for three months, and went double platinum--makes it a valuable memento of "outlaw" country's heyday and of modern country history. --Marc Greilsamer
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4.2 out of 5 stars (12 customer reviews)

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Willie At His Politically Incorrect Best, February 19, 2001
"marleyscott" (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Waylon & Willie (Audio CD)
This remastered and unabridged version of the Willie and Waylon classic has been long overdue. I still haven't figured out why RCA released an edited version of this ten plus years ago and choose to omit "Don't Cuss That Fiddle" and the politically incorrect "The Year 2003 minus 25." Perhaps Willie got a little too controvesial for the music execs with the line "Who would have thought those Arabs would have bought The USA only to give it to the Jews". All in all this is an outstanding follow-up to their smash recording of Outlaws released 2 years earlier on RCA.


9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A ten-star classic, January 31, 2003
DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waylon & Willie (Audio CD)
A super-groovy collection of good-natured, good ole boy-ish tunes from the poster children of the "outlaw" scene. This disc is so packed with goodies, it's hard to know where to begin heaping on the praise. Waylon's soul-drenched sound is a great match for Willie's jazzy sensibilities, and both guys sound like they had a blast recording this album. With songs like "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys," "Wurlitzer Prize," "Pick Up The Tempo" and "I Can Get Off On You," this is an absolute must-have album. Sure, you can get a lot of these tracks on best-of packages, but it's worth it to hear this collaboration in its glorious full context. Highly recommended.


6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars If you wanna talk classics..., April 23, 2005
DanD - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waylon & Willie (Audio CD)
Yep, this album is a classic. What makes an album a classic? Pure and simple greatness. That, and it sold quite a few copies--but sales aside, this album's greatest gem is the pairing of two musical geniuses. Waylon Jennings, the guy who established the outlaw movement and made it what it was; and Willie Nelson, the guy who took songwriting to a whole new level, and showed us that less is more. Waymore and the Red-Headed Stranger...two musical icons.

Enough praise aside--you know how great and important these two men were to music. Let's look at the songs. If you've never heard "Mamma's Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (in any of its incantations, though this is the best), then you need to turn your radio on every once in a while. And you just haven't lived until you've heard these two lamenting on Kris Kristofferson's witty "Don't Cuss the Fiddle." And "The Wurlitzer Prize," a Waylon solo effort, stands as one of the defining songs of country...Read more

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