Disco de Waylon Jennings: “Closing in on the Fire”

This is an odd album in that Waylon attempts some new sounds... but those new sounds certainly work. Diehard fans will love it. Others should listen to a few earlier albums before this one... but if they do that, they'll love it. Either way, this is a great album.

On this album, Waylon branches out. It's got some great blues-rock stuff on it. Waylon and the band on this album really rock out, and it sounds great. It's different from, say, Waylon Live or Dreaming My Dreams in that it's not about the "Waylon sound," but you can still tell it's Waylon's music. If you want to hear Waylon doing rock and Tony Joe White-style swampy music, this is the album. After you buy the essential Waylon classics, this is a good modern Waylon album, along with Waymore's Blues Pt II, Right For The Time, and Never Say Die: Live. The latter day albums may not be up there with Honky Tonk Heroes and Dreaming My Dreams with the critics, but in my opinion these albums are as essential in a Waylon collection as the others.

If you're getting into Waylon and want something different, this is a modern classic that you'll love. His last 5 or so albums (including the Highwaymen releases) are pretty essential, in my opinion. Waylon's voice aged like a fine wine. In about 1994 he started sounding like a wise old man -- one with a very, VERY good voice. His voice developed a quality that suggested he'd lived everything he was singing about... possibly because, well, he HAD lived most of what he sang about!

Another classic Waylon album. It deserves to be in your collection, like most of his releases.

(Also, the audio liner notes are great! You can tell Waylon is trying to be serious... but we still get a few glimpses of that classic Waylon sense of humour!)

Oh, and... WAYLON RULES!

Throughout his career, especially since gaining creative freedom in the early 1970's, Waylon Jennings has pushed and pulled his sound, molding it and remolding it around good songs. This album lives up to all his previous work, and shines on it's own. Definitively Waylon (all the songs have been thoroughly "Waylon-ized"), he chose a true cross-section of musical styles on this one. From Blues ("The Blues Don't Care") to ballads ("Be Mine" and "Just Watch Your Mama and Me") to country rockers ("I Know About Me - Don't Know About You") and honky-tonkers ("Easy Money"). He wrote many of the songs on the album, living proof that you're never too old to be fresh. And it's just plain fun to listen to Waylon light a fire under The Rolling Stones' "No Expectations". Despite recent health woes, and his frustration with Nashville and Country radio, 'ol Waylon is still 'ol Waylon. Just better than eve! r.

Waylon has a unique style and much versatility that shows in his music.

All songs are well written and a must listen to appeal.

RIP Waylon.

This is a must for u'r collection...it's an AWESOME CD...can't get enough of it...once u hear it, u'll LUV it...go buy it.

I wish I could find some sheet music to match these cd's