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On this seventh anniversary of Waylon's death, I'll honor the man, his music and his memory by highlighting twenty of his best, though not best-known, songs.

If you're a Waylon fan and you haven't heard these gems, well...why the Hell haven't you???

* - "Them Old Love Songs" (from "Are You Ready for the Country", 1976)

* - "This Train" (from "Waymore's Blues, Pt. 2", 1994)

* - "Ivory Tower" (from "What Goes Around Comes Around", 1979)

* - "I've Got My Faults" (from "Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.", 1992)

* - "Old Friend" (from "Are You Ready for the Country", 1976)

* - "They Ain't Got 'Em All" (from "Will the Wolf Survive", 1986)

* - "Goin' Down Rockin'" (from "Never Say Die: Live", 2000)

* - "Whistlers and Jugglers" (from "I've Always Been Crazy", 1978)

* - "What About You" (from "Music Man", 1980)

* - "Come Back and See Me" (from "Waymore's Blues, Pt. 2", 1994)

* - "Waymore's Blues" (from "Dreaming my Dreams", 1975)

* - "Reno and Me" (from "The Eagle", 1990)

* - "Louisiana Women" (from "This Time", 1974)

* - "Freedom to Stay" (live version, from "Waylon Live: The Expanded Edition", 1974/2002)

* - "Brand New Goodbye Song" (from "Ol' Waylon", 1977)

* - "If You See Her" (from "What Goes Around Comes Around", 1979)

* - "Best Friends of Mine" (from "Closing in on the Fire", 1998)

* - "A Long Time Ago" (from "I've Always Been Crazy", 1978)

* - "Black Rose" (from "Honky Tonk Heroes", 1972)

* - "Midnight Rider" (from "The Ramblin' Man", 1973)

Long live Hoss!

Drinkin' and Dreamin' is great too.

One of the lesser known albums with Willie "If I can Find a Clean Shirt" is great.

"Clean Shirt" (which was from 1991 and was Waylon and Willie's final album together, not counting their Highwaymen collaborations) is indeed excellent. It was reissued a couple years back and should be available now.

It's hard to talk about Waylon and not mention the Great Billy Joe Shaver. Billy Joe Shaver wrote a lot of those great classic Waylon songs. Hell, some claim Billy Joe may have started the whole Outlaw movement.

Waylon' versions of He Went To Paris and Defying Gravity aint bad either.

a1aara wrote:It's hard to talk about Waylon and not mention the Great Billy Joe Shaver. Billy Joe Shaver wrote a lot of those great classic Waylon songs. Hell, some claim Billy Joe may have started the whole Outlaw movement.

If they claim that, they're wrong. Shaver wrote most of the songs on one Waylon album, the classic "Honky Tonk Heroes". Other than that, he didn't write many of Waylon's songs, and the classic album "Ladies Love Outlaws" (pre-Shaver) was really the first album Waylon "busted loosed" with that "outlaw bit" on.

Shaver was/is a great songwriter, just not quite as great as he thought he was.

It was Waylon who started the "outlaw" movement when he decided enough was enough and he was gonna make HIS music HIS way, consequences be damned.

bestseller92 wrote:

a1aara wrote:It's hard to talk about Waylon and not mention the Great Billy Joe Shaver. Billy Joe Shaver wrote a lot of those great classic Waylon songs. Hell, some claim Billy Joe may have started the whole Outlaw movement.

If they claim that, they're wrong. Shaver wrote most of the songs on one Waylon album, the classic "Honky Tonk Heroes". Other than that, he didn't write many of Waylon's songs, and the classic album "Ladies Love Outlaws" (pre-Shaver) was really the first album Waylon "busted loosed" with that "outlaw bit" on.

Shaver was/is a great songwriter, just not quite as great as he thought he was.

It was Waylon who started the "outlaw" movement when he decided enough was enough and he was gonna make HIS music HIS way, consequences be damned.

I never stated he wrote all of Waylons classic songs. Waylon claimed that Shaver was his songwriting Hero.

To be completley honest Waylon wrote very few of his classic songs, if any. I think that Steve Young wrote some of Waylons classics before Shaver came along.

Jennings by no means started the Outlaw movement, but his career was revived when he decided to join the movement and force his record company in Nashville, to allow him to produce his own albums.

Waylon wrote more and more songs as his career went along. He wrote most all the songs on his classic 1994 album "Waymore's Blues, Pt. 2".

Waylon actually did Shaver a HUGE favor by recording nine of his songs for the "HTH" album in '72, and the two almost came to blows because Shaver disagreed with how Waylon was doing some of them. Waylon finally told him, "Shut the f&&& up, get out of here and let me do these f^^^^^^ songs MY way!"

Or something to that effect.

sonofabeach wrote:Drinkin' and Dreamin' is great too.

One of the lesser known albums with Willie "If I can Find a Clean Shirt" is great.

I downloaded that song a while back.. I love the story.. and the vibe

The pics from the original CD booklet are great too, especially the one with Waylon and Willie back to back in a Mexican bar, each with a gun in his hand.

GREAT TRIBUTE TO WAYLON:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFifL2FqYM

What? No "Slow Rollin' Low"?