this dude was not fake just the greatest singer of all time and a damn good picker also! miss ole waylon.Newbies, watch listen do a little learning about music!!!
I will never as long as I live understand how Waylon thought he was just an "okay" guitar player. He wasn't wrong much but he was wrong there.... the guys great.
+Tommy Petersen I did a lot of his stuff when I played. Always had some really good guitar players cut him down for his lead. Always shut them up when I asked why they couldn't play it then!
+fldinosaur exactly! Those that can, do. Those that can't, wish they were Waylon. I love music and go by my ear, if it sounds cool then I'm in. I've read your posts before and besides great knowledge you obviously have a musicians ear and when I see stuff from fellow musicians, they all admire that "Waylon sound". All I know is that like that great baritone of his, his guitar playing was/is instantly recognized.
ahh he was a dynamite guitar player. Maybe he was being modest. Most "country" guys hold a guitar. Thats all. But Waylon actually PLAYED. He was a gift to us.
When he was still doing stuff at JDs, he did most of his own lead. But when he moved to RCA, Chet barely left him play lead. Chet would usually bring Jerry Reed into do most of the lead work on Waylon's early RCA songs. Of course, there were some songs that Chet left him do his thing. On Waylon sing ole Harlan, he does a good bit of the lead work on the album.
He had his own way of playing that was all to its own. Not many could play like that. Ritchie Albright was one of the best drummers also in my opinion. I could sit and listen to him drum all day.
Waylon had such a great sense and respect for history. Anyone else notice that he mentions the Boers nest? That place literally had the DNA of the Outlaw movement.
Some OL' WAYLON at his best!! We all miss ya Hoss! Never get tired of watchin ya & hearin ya! God bless you Waylon & rest in peace. Keep teachin the angels in heaven how to play real music.
Waylon goddamn Jennings. The Hoss. The King. There will always be a special place in heaven for these guys that serve as platform & medium for displaying the ways we all feel deep down inside.
I had chance to stop by Waylon grave a few years ago.... He was and is a superstar in his time. What I found is a simple grave with a flat black marble headstone with rest of others beside his was the gray flat ones... but was disappointing was the 2 inches of water sitting on top of his grave, they flood the place to water the grass. I was told he wanted that way...
Merle brings such a presence to songs with his voice and delivery. But what I love most about him is that so many of the great songs he sings are ones that he wrote himself. Like this one. Mama Tried. I Wish A Buck Was Still Silver. Okie from Muskogee. Another stealth early years Merle track is Huntsville. Great lyricist. A legendary storyteller.
Being that this song is about Nashville I would think that the Boar's Nest that he is referencing here is the place and residents of Sue Brewer who would put up all these Nashville songwriters after the bars would close down and they would go to her place and drink
My favorite memory of this song was on Christmas Eve 1981. I'd gotten the "Music Man" LP earlier that day (an early Christmas present) and played this track several times in a row. One helluva rush, lemme tell ya!
The ride here is the song for my baby girl my red-headed lover girl that would be my favorite song to her for the rest of my life as long as I live cuz she's got them long-legged legs It Won't Stop and she's mine Asheville woman always will be
I'd say late 70s, early 80s. He looks to be in his early 40s, which would fit that time frame. This was on the "Music Man" album, which is from 1980 (or very late '79).
lol, 2 ppl gave this a thumbs down...haha. Waylon has been gone for so long that your 2 thumbs down dont matter at all.... all of our sweet love for waylon trumps your thumbs down
