The second volume of Bear Family's chronicle of Waylon Jennings' pre-Outlaw recordings begins in June 1968, taking the story to the end of 1972. Here Waylon Jennings develops some of the pivotal personal and musical relationships of his life, with Shel Silverstein, Billy Joe Shaver, Bobby Bare, and of course with his wife, Jessi Colter. The pace of hits was picking up. Waylon Jennings hit the charts with songs he would feature throughout his career such as MacArthur Park, The Taker, Good Hearted Woman, Pretend I Never Happened, as well as his own Lonesome On'ry And Mean. This set also features complete early albums, including 'Jewels,' 'Just To Satisfy You,' 'The Taker/Tulsa,' 'Singer Of Sad Songs,' 'Cedartown, Georgia,' 'Good Hearted Woman,' and 'Ladies Love Outlaws.' The 60-page hardcover-book includes an essay from Waylon Jennings' official biographer, Lenny Kaye. 'Waylon was beginning to see that it wasn't just an individual producer that stood between him and his musical realization,' Lenny Kaye writes. 'Rather, the weight of Nashville tradition was wedged like a stone in his particular passway. You either had to climb over the barricade or blow it up. ' Here, Waylon Jennings begins to do both.
86 Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
87 Mobile Blues
88 Mama I'll Sing One Song for You
89 Casey's Last Ride
90 Love in the Afternoon
91 I've Got Eyes for You
92 Under Your Spell Again (& Jessi Colter)
93 Atlanta's Burning Down
94 Ghost of General Lee
95 Some Kind of Fool
96 I Think It's Time She Learned
97 Same Old Love Man
98 Low Down Freedom
99 Unsatisfied
100 It Should Be Easier Now
101 Crazy Arms
102 Do No Good Woman
103 Sweet Dream Woman
104 Good Hearted Woman
105 Revelation
106 Big, Big Love
107 Ladies Love Outlaws
108 Sure Didn't Take Him Long
109 Nothin' Worth Takin' or Leavin'
110 Lay It Down
111 Sandy Sends Her Best
112 Last Letter
113 Come Early Mornin'
114 You Can Have Her
115 My God and I
116 Frisco Depot (San Fransisco Depot)
117 Me and Bobby McGee
118 Black Rose
119 Pretend I Never Happened
120 Delta Dawn
121 Never Been to Spain
122 Laid Back Country Picker
123 Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
124 Willy, the Wandering Gypsy
125 San Fransisco Mabel Joy
126 Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
127 Freedom to Stay
128 Lisa's Only Seven
129 Last One to Leave Seattle
130 About That Woman
131 Poor Old Ugly Gladys Jones
132 Chet's Tune
133 I'm a Long Way from Home (Guitar Version)
134 What Makes a Man Wander
135 John's Back in Town
136 Cedartown Georgia
137 Something's Wrong in California
138 Days of Sand and Shovels
139 Just to Satisfy You
140 For the Kids
141 Change My Mind
142 Lonely Weekends
143 Don't Play the Game
144 House Song
145 Same Old Lover Man
146 Ned Kelly
147 Shadows of the Gallows
The second volume of Bear Family's chronicle of Waylon Jennings' pre-Outlaw recordings begins in June 1968, taking the story to the end of 1972. Here Waylon Jennings develops some of the pivotal personal and musical relationships of his life, with Shel Silverstein, Billy Joe Shaver, Bobby Bare, and of course with his wife, Jessi Colter. The pace of hits was picking up. Waylon Jennings hit the charts with songs he would feature throughout his career such as MacArthur Park, The Taker, Good Hearted Woman, Pretend I Never Happened, as well as his own Lonesome On'ry And Mean. This set also features complete early albums, including 'Jewels,' 'Just To Satisfy You,' 'The Taker/Tulsa,' 'Singer Of Sad Songs,' 'Cedartown, Georgia,' 'Good Hearted Woman,' and 'Ladies Love Outlaws.' The 60-page hardcover-book includes an essay from Waylon Jennings' official biographer, Lenny Kaye. 'Waylon was beginning to see that it wasn't just an individual producer that stood between him and his musical realization,' Lenny Kaye writes. 'Rather, the weight of Nashville tradition was wedged like a stone in his particular passway. You either had to climb over the barricade or blow it up. ' Here, Waylon Jennings begins to do both.
