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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."
By 1979, Jennings was on the tail end of a hot streak that had made him one of the biggest superstars in country music. He had scored twelve Top 10 country hits since 1973 (including six chart toppers) and had recorded 4 straight No. 1 country albums, with 1977's Ol' Waylon also hitting No. 15 on the pop music charts.
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.
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.
The Taker/Tulsa is a studio album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1971 on RCA Nashville. The LP rose to #12 on the Billboard country albums chart while the single "The Taker" was a Top 5 hit single.
By 1978, Jennings was getting burned out on the outlaw country movement. Despite enormous critical and commercial success, including a run of three #1 studio albums, a #1 live album, a #1 duet album (with Willie Nelson), and ten Top 10 solo singles (including five chart toppers), he was irritated at the hype surrounding his music and resented how Nashville had co-opted what had started out as ...
"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]
Waylon's son Shooter Jennings performed a cover of this song on CMT Crossroads as a duet with Jamey Johnson. On the tribute album I've Always Been Crazy: Tribute to Waylon Jennings, the song was covered by Metallica frontman James Hetfield. Ben Hoffman, performing as Wheeler Walker Jr., performed a cover on the podcast "Your Mom's House".