The Essential Waylon Jennings

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Big Mamou
  2:28
• 2
  That’s the Chance I’ll Have to Take
  2:05
• 3
  Stop the World (and Let Me Off)
  2:03
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Anita, You’re Dreaming
  2:26
• 5
  (That’s What You Get) For Lovin’ Me
  2:27
• 6
  The Chokin’ Kind

  Waylon Jennings and The Waylors
  2:31
• 7
  Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line
  2:23
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Just to Satisfy You
  2:18
  5.0 ★
• 9
  Cedartown, Georgia
  2:50
• 10
  The Taker
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 11
  Lovin’ Her Was Easier (Than Anything I’ll Ever Do Again)
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Sweet Dream Woman
  3:00
• 13
  Ladies Love Outlaws
  2:32
• 14
  Lonesome, On’ry and Mean
  3:40
  4.0 ★
• 15
  Freedom to Stay
  3:13
• 16
  Pretend I Never Happened
  3:02
• 17
  You Can Have Her
  2:41
• 18
  We Had It All
  2:46
• 19
  Honky Tonk Heroes
  3:36
• 20
  You Ask Me To
  2:33
• CD 2
• 1
  This Time
  2:26
  3.0 ★
• 2
  It’s Not Supposed to Be That Way
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 3
  I’m a Ramblin’ Man
  2:47
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Rainy Day Woman
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Amanda
  3:00
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Bob Wills Is Still the King
  3:00
• 7
  Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
  2:56
  4.4 ★
• 8
  Waymore’s Blues
  2:41
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Dreaming My Dreams With You
  2:26
• 10
  Good Hearted Woman

  Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
  3:01
  3.5 ★
• 11
  Are You Ready for the Country
  3:12
  3.5 ★
• 12
  Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)
  3:21
  4.0 ★
• 13
  The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don’t Want to Get Over You)
  2:08
• 14
  Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys

  Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
  2:33
  4.0 ★
• 15
  I’ve Always Been Crazy
  4:12
  4.0 ★
• 16
  A Long Time Ago
  2:24
  3.0 ★
• 17
  Don’t You Think This Outlaw Bit’s Done Got Out of Hand
  2:59
  5.0 ★
• 18
  I Ain’t Living Long Like This
  4:47
  4.5 ★
• 19
  Theme From the Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol’ Boys)
  2:08
  3.5 ★
• 20
  Storms Never Last

  Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter
  3:06
• 21
  Drinkin’ and Dreamin’
  3:01
  4.0 ★
• 22
  Rose in Paradise
  3:43
• CD 3
• 1
  T For Texas
  4:04
• 2
  Can't You See
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Come With Me
  3:03
• 4
  Clyde
  2:42
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Shine
  2:52
• 6
  Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)
  3:26
• 7
  America
  3:45
• 8
  Highwayman

  The Highwaymen
  3:03
  4.5 ★

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Ultimate Waylon Jennings

Ultimate Waylon Jennings 2004

Closing In on the Fire

Closing In on the Fire 1998

The Essential Waylon Jennings

The Essential Waylon Jennings 1996

Waymore’s Blues (Part II)

Waymore’s Blues (Part II) 1994

Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way

Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way 1992

Release credits

• Al Pachucki
  recording [2.3, 2.8, 3.1]
• Anita Kerr
  background vocals [3]
• Anita Kerr Singers
  background vocals [3]
• Barry Rudolph
  engineer [2.11, 3.2]
• Becky Williams
  background vocals [14]
• Biff Watson
  guitar [8-9]
• Bill C. Graham
  fiddle [2, 4]
• Bill Joor
  trumpet [17]
• Bill Vandervort
  recording [3, 14]
• Billy Ray Reynolds
  guitar [1.11, 1.14, 2.5, 2.7, 2.10, 3.1, 3.4]
• Bob Tebow
  background vocals [11]
• Bobby Dyson
  bass [6-7, 10]
• Bobby Emmons
  keyboard [5, 8]
• Bobby Thompson
  guitar [3]
• Bobby Wood
  keyboard [8]
• Brent Cartee
  engineer [21]
• Brenton Banks
  violin [9]
• Buddy Harman
  drums (drum set) [6]
• Buddy Spicher
  fiddle [8-9]
• Bunky Keels
  piano [3]
• Carl Gay
  guitar [5]
• Carl Gorodetzky
  violin [9]
• Carter Robertson
  background vocals [3.2, 2.11-12, 2.14, 2.18-19]
• Charles Cochran
  piano [2.7, 2.9, 2.20, 3.4]
• Charlie McCoy
  bass [5], guitar [10], harmonica [1.5-7, 1.10, 2.8-9]
• Chet Atkins
  producer [3-8]
• Chip Young
  guitar [6, 10, 14]
• Chips Moman
  background vocals [8], engineer [5, 8], guitar [3.5, 3.8, 2.14], producer [2.12, 3.5, 3.8]
• Clifford Barny Robertson
  background vocals [14], keyboard [12, 14-15, 17-18], organ [14], piano [2.11, 2.19, 3.2]
• D.J. Fontana
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Dan Mustoe
  drums (drum set) [21]
• Danny Davis
  producer [10]
• Dave Kirby
  guitar [3]
• David Briggs
  piano [10]
• David Cherry
  engineer [8]
• Dee Moeller
  organ [1], piano [1]
• Don Brooks
  harmonica [2.1-2, 1.11]
• Don Cartee
  engineer [21]
• Don Cobb
  engineer [12]
• Dorothy Ann Dillard
  background vocals [3, 5-6]
• Dottie Deleonibus
  background vocals [7]
• Duke Goff
  bass [3.1-2, 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.10-11], bass guitar [2.11, 3.2], piano [4]
• Ernest West
  background vocals [3]
• Floyd Cramer
  piano [3]
• Fred Carter, Jr.
  guitar [1.3, 1.6-7, 1.10, 2.15, 2.17]
• Fred Newell
  guitar [2, 4-5]
• Garth Fundis
  vocal [5]
• Gary Scruggs
  guitar [21], harmonica [21], producer [21]
• Gene Chrisman
  drums (drum set) [5, 8]
• Gene Merlino
  background vocals [11]
• George Binkley
  violin [9]
• Glen D. Hardin
  piano [11]
• Gordon Payne
  background vocals [14], guitar [12, 14, 14-15, 17-19], harmonica [3.4, 2.14]
• Gordon Stoker
  background vocals [7]
• Hargus “Pig” Robbins
  piano [5-8]
• Henry Strzelecki
  bass [3, 5]
• Hoyt Hawkins
  background vocals [7]
• Jack Clement
  producer [7-9]
• James Horner
  conductor [5]
• Jerry Bridges
  bass [5, 18-21], guitar [21], producer [21]
• Jerry Carrigan
  drums (drum set) [5, 7-8, 10]
• Jerry Gropp
  guitar [3]
• Jerry Reed
  guitar [5-6, 8]
• Jessi Colter
  lead vocals [20], organ [2], piano [2], vocal [20]
• Jim Gordon
  saxophone [11]
• Jim Malloy
  recording [3, 6]
• Jimmy Bowen
  producer [22]
• Jimmy Colvard
  guitar [8-9]
• Jimmy Haber
  keyboard [21]
• Jimmy Tittle
  bass [8]
• Joe Allen
  bass [3], guitar [8-9]
• Joe Osborn
  bass [11]
• John Guerin
  drums (drum set) [11]
• John Hug
  guitar [2.11, 2.14, 3.2]
• John Sands
  assistant [2.11, 3.2]
• John Wilkin
  guitar [5]
• Johnny Cash
  background vocals [8], performer [8], vocal [8]
• Johnny Christopher
  guitar [3.5, 2.12]
• Johnny Gimble
  guitar [8-9]
• Johnny Rodriguez
  background vocals [8], guitar [8]
• Junior Huskey
  bass [6-8]
• Ken Criblez
  assistant [8]
• Ken Mansfield
  producer [3.2, 2.5, 2.11]
• Kris Kristofferson
  background vocals [8], guitar [8], performer [8], vocal [8]
• Kyle Lehning
  keyboard [5], recording [4-5, 7, 9], trumpet [1]
• Larry Butler
  organ [8]
• Larry Greenhill
  assistant [8]
• Larry Londin
  drums (drum set) [3]
• Larry Whitmore
  guitar [3.1, 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.10]
• Lea Jane Berinati
  background vocals [3]
• Lee Miller
  bass [14]
• Leon Rhodes
  bass [3]
• Leslie Ladd
  recording [14]
• Linda Tyler
  assistant [3.2, 2.11]
• Louis Nunley
  background vocals [3, 5-6]
• Mack Johnson
  trumpet [11]
• Martha McCrory
  cello [9]
• Martin Katahn
  violin [9]
• Marty Stuart
  mandolin [8]
• Marvin Chantry
  viola [9]
• Maurice Spears
  trombone [11]
• Mickey Raphael
  harmonica [8]
• Mike Leech
  bass [5, 8]
• Neal Matthews
  background vocals [7]
• Neil Wilburn
  engineer [12]
• Norbert Putnam
  bass [10]
• Paul Davis
  background vocals [8], guitar [8], keyboard [8]
• Paul Foster
  guitar [3]
• Pete Drake
  steel guitar [10]
• Priscilla Hubbard
  background vocals [5-6]
• Ralph Mooney
  resonator guitar [19], steel guitar [1.11, 1.14, 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.10-12, 2.14-15, 2.18, 2.20, 3.1]
• Rance Wasson
  background vocals [14], guitar [12, 14-15, 17-18]
• Randy Scruggs
  guitar [1.14, 2.19]
• Ray Edenton
  guitar [5, 7-8]
• Ray Pennington
  producer [2.3, 2.8, 2.10, 3.1]
• Ray Stevens
  organ [7], vibraphone [6]
• Ray Walker
  background vocals [7]
• Reggie Young
  guitar [2, 12, 14]
• Richard Morris
  marimba [5]
• Richie Albright
  drums (drum set) [1.3, 1.14, 2.1-2, 2.4-5, 2.7-12, 2.14-15, 2.17-20, 3.1-2, 3.4], producer [3.4, 2.15-20]
• Roger Crabtree
  harmonica [3.1, 2.5, 2.10]
• Ron Haffkine
  producer [2.20, 3.4]
• Ronald B. Drake
  background vocals [3]
• Ronny Light
  producer [11]
• Roy Christensen
  cello [9]
• Sharon Vaughn
  background vocals [3]
• Sheldon Kurland
  violin [9]
• Sherman Hayes
  bass [3.2, 2.11-12, 2.14-15, 2.17], bass guitar [2.11, 3.2], steel guitar [14]
• Sonny Curtis
  guitar [11]
• Stan Farber
  background vocals [11]
• Stephanie Woolf
  violin [9]
• Tom Pick
  recording [14]
• Tompall Glaser
  producer [4]
• Vangie Carmichael
  background vocals [11]
• Waylon Jennings
  arranger [1-2], background vocals [8], guitar [1.3, 1.5-8, 1.10-11, 1.14, 2.1-5, 2.7-12, 2.14-15, 2.17-21, 3.1-2, 3.4-5, 3.8], lead vocals [3.1-2, 3.4-5, 2.1-5, 2.7-9, 2.11-12, 2.14-15, 2.17-21, 1.3, 1.5-8, 1.10-11, 1.14], performer [3.8, 2.14], producer [3.1-2, 1.14, 2.1-5, 2.7-11, 2.15-17, 2.20, 2.22], vocal [3.2, 3.8, 2.10-11, 2.14]
• Wayne Moss
  guitar [7-8]
• William Brown
  background vocals [11]
• William Guilford Wright Jr.
  background vocals [3, 5-6]
• Willie Nelson
  background vocals [8], guitar [2.2, 3.8], lead vocals [12, 14], performer [8], producer [1-2], vocal [3.8, 2.10, 2.14]
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Issues

• T
  (Combined release view)
• 

  T
  The Essential Waylon Jennings

  2x CD
  1 May 2007
• T
  The Essential Waylon Jennings 3.0

  3x CD
  20 June 2008