Willie Nelson I Can Get Off on You
| Waylon & Willie | ||||
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| Studio album past Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson | ||||
| Released | January 1978 | |||
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| Length | 32:l | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
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Waylon & Willie is a duet album by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, released by RCA Records in 1978. In the U.s., it stayed at #i album on the country album charts for x weeks and would spend a total of 126 weeks on the country charts.
Groundwork [edit]
By 1978, Jennings and Nelson had attained land music superstar condition. Jennings had had three #i land albums in a row, and his most recent, Ol' Waylon in 1977, included what turned out to be the biggest hitting single of his career, "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)". Nelson, who had taken a verse on the Jennings single, had enjoyed blockbuster success of his ain with the release of his 1975 West Texas epic Cherry-red Headed Stranger and did over again with Stardust in 1978. After so many ane-off collaborations and tours, it was inevitable that they would tape an anthology of duets, although being contracted to different record labels (Waylon with RCA and Willie with Columbia) fabricated matters difficult. According to the RCA executive Jerry Bradley, Jennings initially attempted to overdub his vocals on a few old Nelson recordings (Nelson had recorded for RCA Victor from 1965 to 1972) just struggled to exercise so. Instead, he approached Columbia Records in Nashville with the thought of recording an anthology of new duets.[i] In a surprising show of co-operation, Columbia agreed. Jennings and Nelson had accomplished great success previously, winning the Land Music Association Award for Duo of the Year for their song "Proficient Hearted Woman" in 1976, and were the marquee attractions on the Wanted! The Outlaws compilation, state music'south first 1000000 selling album.
Recording and limerick [edit]
The album contains iii songs sung individually by Jennings and Nelson, besides every bit five duets. Although information technology was presented as a new release, several of the tracks had been recorded for some time and had been redone using overdubbing. The Nelson-sung "It's Non Supposed to Be That Way" and "If You Can Touch Her at All" had appeared on Jennings' 1974 album This Time (which Nelson had co-produced), every bit had the song "Pick Upwardly The Tempo", which is on this LP as a duet. Nelson'due south guitar playing is noticeably absent on the recording.
Jerry Bradley afterward recalled, "Waylon come to play those for me. He looked at me and said, 'You don't really similar them?' I said 'Well, nosotros'll do well with them, but I don't recall there'southward one as practiced every bit what we had with the Outlaws.' He said, 'What about this one?' And that's when he played 'Mammas.'"[1]
"Mammas Don't Permit Your Babies Grow Upwards to Be Cowboys", written by Ed and Patsy Bruce, peaked at number 1 in March 1978, spending four weeks on top of the country music charts. It too reached 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, and won the 1979 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance past a Duo or Group with Vocal. It propelled the anthology to the meridian of the Billboard country albums chart. The Waylon-sung "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" as well reached number one, while Nelson'southward reading of Lee Clayton'due south "If You lot Can Touch Her at All" reached #5. The music journalist Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic observed, "...in hindsight, it looks similar where the movement was beginning to slide into predictability, even if both singers are more or less in control of their talents here. Though still at the peak of his popularity, Waylon had begun to slip slightly creatively starting with the very good, just not great, Are Y'all Ready for the Country, which suggested that he was having a piffling harder time getting a full album of consistently great material together. The patchwork nature of this album suggests that he still had the problem, but since it was divided into three solo songs apiece and five duets, this plays to his strengths, because the limited number of new songs doesn't give him room to stumble."
Jennings' legal issues, including a much publicized cocaine arrest in 1977, were no doubtfulness a distraction and perhaps the inspiration[ citation needed ] for "I Can Go Off On Yous", a songwriting collaboration with Nelson (a notorious pothead) that celebrates the triumph of new love over by vices ("Have dorsum the weed, take back the cocaine baby, take dorsum the pills, have back the whiskey too..."). Jennings' cover version of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman" also addresses drugs, and was some other example of Jennings' penchant for appropriating FM rock staples; he had previously covered Neil Immature's "Are You Ready for the Country" and the Marshall Tucker Band's "Tin't Y'all See". Near the conclusion of Kris Kristofferson'southward "Don't Cuss the Fiddle", Jennings and Nelson began singing "Proficient Hearted Woman", which has an identical musical arrangement.
The original liner notes, complimenting Jennings and Nelson on their ability to surprise and deliver solid fabric, were written past Chet Flippo of Rolling Stone. Waylon & Willie was reissued by RCA Records in 2001. This was the first time that the total album was issued on CD in the U.s.; previous U.s.a. CD issues contained only eight of the album'south eleven songs.
Reception [edit]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   link |
| Christgau's Record Guide | B+[2] |
Rolling Rock ranked Waylon and Willie #30 on its "50 Country Albums Every Rock Fan Should Ain", maxim, "These one-time stoner compadres teamed up with startling purpose for this consistently poignant, pleasingly loopy Number One country blast. A last call of circular barroom logic, information technology evenly splits primo world-weary Willie (the quivering waltz 'If Yous Can Bear on Her at All' and bewildered end-of-the-line lament 'It's Not Supposed to Be That Way') with elevation-tier wobbly Waylon (his chilling cinéma vérité version of Fleetwood Mac'south 'Gold Grit Woman' and the light-touch pathos of 'The Wurlitzer Prize')."[ citation needed ] While conceding that the album "remains ane of their biggest-selling albums," AllMusic thought, "its perennial popularity has more to do with their iconic status - something this anthology deliberately played upwardly - than the quality of the music, which is, overall, merely practiced...Since it was cut at a time they were making consistently enjoyable music, it'south fun, merely information technology could have been much, much more it is."
Track listing [edit]
Side one [edit]
- "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Abound Upwardly to Be Cowboys" (Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce) – 2:34
- "The Yr 2003 Minus 25" (Kris Kristofferson) – three:04
- "Pick Up the Tempo" (Willie Nelson) – 2:32
- "If You Tin can Affect Her at All" (Lee Clayton) – three:04
- "Lookin' for a Feeling" (Waylon Jennings) – 2:38
- "Information technology's Non Supposed to Be That Manner" (Nelson) – iii:20
Side two [edit]
- "I Tin Become Off on You" (Jennings, Nelson) – 2:24
- "Don't Cuss the Dabble" (Kristofferson) – 3:04
- "Gold Grit Woman" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:00
- "A Couple More than Years" (Dennis Locorriere, Shel Silverstein) – 4:02
- "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Desire to Get Over You)" (Bobby Emmons, Fries Moman) – 2:08
Chart performance [edit]
| Chart (1978) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Pinnacle Country Albums | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 12 |
| Canadian RPM State Albums | seven |
| Canadian RPM Top Albums | xi |
References [edit]
- ^ a b Streissguth, Michael (2013). Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville. HarperCollins. p. 223. ISBN978-0062038180.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: J". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X . Retrieved Feb 27, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
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