I've got all of Waylon's hits, so one reason I bought and enjoy this offering...it's not full of songs that he's covered. When anybody who has had success dies, producers and engineers seek to find songs that never made it on an album (or CD).
Waylon's career never took off until, well, he'd aged. In those early years, he hung out with Johnny Cash and others who had made it to FAME. Did you know that he was playing bass for Buddy Holly's tragic Winter Tour?
He escaped death in the February 3, 1959 plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, when he and Valens flipped a coin to see who would get to ride in the plane. Waylon lost.
Later he would go on to make it big wth the OUTLAWS. A small group of country artists that Nashville didn't want, so they worked outside of the Nashville corporate scene... and the rest of his career is history.
Toward the end of his life he started singing what he wanted to. One example is his cover of "MacArthur Park" and Six White Horses," both anti-war songs....hardly country.
If you liked Waylon, you should add this to your collection.
