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Waylon Live hit #1 on the Billboard country albums chart and #46 on the pop albums chart.Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic writes, "As one of the great live albums, Waylon Live is nearly flawless, a snapshot of Waylon Jennings at the height of his powers...It winds up as one of the great country records and one of the great live albums, capturing a movement at its peak and transcending it."
It was released in September 1977 as the first single from the album Waylon & Willie. The song was Jennings' sixth number one on the country charts. The single spent two weeks at the top and a total of eleven weeks on the chart. [1] It was later covered by Kacey Musgraves for a tribute show to Jennings, the live album of which was released in 2017.
"I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up)" is a song written by Bob McDill, and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It was released in March 1984 as the third single from the album Waylon and Company. The song reached number 4 on the Hot Country Songs chart. [1]
This outro had not been present in the recorded live version, thus making it hard to hear echoes of Western swing in that arrangement. [8] The album Waylon Live, released in December 1976, was recorded at the same performances that produced "Bob Wills Is Still the King," and included that version again.
Love of the Common People reached #3 on the Billboard country albums chart. AllMusic: "There's a certain tendency for country albums of this era to be uneven, and if that's the case on Love of the Common People, it isn't because of bad material but because Jennings is searching the entire time, testing things out, finding that some things work and others don't.
"Clyde" is a song written by J. J. Cale, which first appeared on his 1972 album Naturally. American musical group Dr. Hook covered the song on their 1978 album Pleasure and Pain. [1]
"Drinkin' and Dreamin'" is a song written by Troy Seals and Max D. Barnes, and recorded by American country music artist Waylon Jennings. It was released in June 1985 as the first single from the album Turn the Page. The song reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. [1]
The album was eventually certified gold, with four top ten singles, and topped the Billboard country albums chart. It also hit #34 on the pop charts. Allmusic states that Are You Ready For the Country is "the first time since the late '60s that one of Jennings' albums felt like less than the sum of its parts, and if it didn't necessarily mark the end of the era, it did mark the point when he ...