Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Folsom Prison Blues
2. Today I Started Loving You Again
3. If You Were Mine to Lose
4. Six Strings Away
5. Cedartown, Georgia
6. I Lost Me
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
8. Alone
9. Something's Wrong in California
10. Days of Sand and Shovels
11. Just to Satisfy You
12. For the Kids
13. Farewell Party
14. Sing the Blues to Daddy - Bobby Bare, Waylon Jennings
15. Change My Mind
16. Lonely Weekends
17. World of Our Own
18. Come Stay With Me
19. MacArthur Park
20. Long Way Back Home
21. These New Changing Times
22. Cindy, Oh Cindy
23. Mary Ann Regrets
24. But You Know I Love You
25. Drivin' Nails in the Wall
26. Let Me Tell You My Mind
27. Games People Play

Disc 2:

1. Don't Play the Game
2. House Song
3. Delia's Gone
4. It's All Over Now
5. Thirty Third of August
6. I'm Gonna Leave (While I Still Love You)
7. Grey Eyes You Know
8. I May Never Pass This Way Again
9. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
10. Lila
11. Willie and Laura Mae Jones
12. I Ain't the One - Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings
13. Singer of Sad Songs
14. Let Me Stay Awhile
15. Sunday Morning Coming Down
16. (I'd Be) A Legend in My Time
17. It's Sure Been Fun
18. Where Love Has Died
19. Yellow Haired Woman
20. This Time Tommorow (I'll Be Gone)
21. Life Goes On
22. People in Dallas Got Hair
23. Six White Horses
24. Pickin' White Gold
25. Donna on My Mind
26. Honky Tonk Women
27. Time Between Bottles of Wine
28. Ragged But Right
29. If I Were a Carpenter
30. Must You Throw Dirt in My Face

Disc 3:

1. She Comes Running
2. No Regrets
3. Rock, Salt, and Nails
4. Sick and Tired
5. It Ain't Easy
6. Woman You Need a Man
7. Marriage on the Rocks
8. To Beat the Devil
9. Mississippi Woman
10. Ned Kelly
11. Shadow of the Gallows
12. Lonigan's Widow
13. Ranchin' in the Evening
14. Blame It on the Kellys
15. Pleasures of a Sunday Afternoon
16. Big D
17. Gone to Denver
18. Taker
19. Bridge over Troubled Water - Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings
20. What About You?
21. Thanks
22. You'll Look for Me
23. Tomorrow Night in Baltimore
24. One of My Bad Habits
25. Suspicious Minds - Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings
26. Sweetheart - Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings
27. I Knew You'd Be Leavin'
28. (Don't Let the Sun Set on You) Tulsa

Disc 4:

1. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
2. Mobile Blues
3. Mama, I'll Sing One Song for You
4. Casey's Last Ride
5. Love in the Afternoon
6. I've Got Eyes for You
7. Under Your Spell Again - Jessi Colter, Waylon Jennings
8. Atlanta's Burning Down
9. Ghost of General Lee
10. Some Kind of Fool
11. I Think It's Time She Learned
12. Same Old Lover Man
13. Low Down Freedom
14. Unsatisfied
15. It Should Be Easier Now
16. Crazy Arms
17. Do No Good Woman
18. Sweet Dream Woman
19. Good Hearted Woman
20. Revelation
21. Big, Big Love
22. Ladies Love Outlaws
23. Sure Didn't Take Him Long
24. Nothin' Worth Takin' or Leavin'
25. Lay It Down
26. Sandy Sends Her Best
27. Last Letter

Disc 5:

1. Come Early Mornin'
2. You Can Have Her
3. My God and I
4. Frisco Depot (San Francisco Depot)
5. Me and Bobby McGee
6. Black Rose
7. Pretend I Never Happened
8. Delta Dawn
9. Never Been to Spain
10. Laid Back Country Picker
11. Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
12. Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
13. San Francisco Mabel Joy
14. Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
15. Freedom to Stay
16. Lisa's Only Seven
17. Last One to Leave Seattle
18. About That Woman
19. Poor Old Ugly Gladys Jones
20. Chet's Tune

Disc 6:

1. I'm a Long Way from Home [Guitar Version]
2. What Makes a Man Wander
3. John's Back in Town
4. Cedartown, Georgia [Alternate Take]
5. Something's Wrong in California
6. Days of Sand and Shovels [Alternate Take]
7. Just to Satisfy You [Alternate Take]
8. For the Kids
9. Change My Mind
10. Lonely Weekends
11. Don't Play the Game
12. House Song
13. Same Old Lover Man
14. Ned Kelly
15. Shadow of the Gallows

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #225779 in Music
• Released on: 2002-02-15
• Number of discs: 6
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: 3.92 pounds

Album Details
6 CD Box set & book.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding and unexpected music from the Pre-Outlaw days
This is Part 2 of the Bear family collection. (Part 1 is called The Journey: Destiny's Child.) Rather expensive, yes, but a great value as there are about 150 songs here and each CD represents a couple of albums. I haven't done all the math, but you are getting about 15 albums worth of his music. I was particularly pleased to find that all the cuts from album he did with the Kimberley's ("Country-Folk") is on disk 1, along with 16 other cuts from the late 60s and early 70s.

On the down side the organization leaves a bit to be desired, with later songs appearing on CDs before earlier songs, but for me this album has been a revelation. I admit it, I LIKE the "Nashville Sound" which characterized what I heard on the radio while I was growing up. It came after the more Western/Hillbilly sound (think "yodeling") and before Rock/Pop/Country merged in the mid-70s.

Waylon has a wonderful natural voice that contains something purer than what we hear in his later music: a more mature sound, but also a voice affected by years of smoking and pill-popping. I could be wrong but I think there will be a revival of this early music.

Of note is that in the early years Waylon took a great fancy to folk singing and covered several Lightfoot songs as well as Dylan and Ian Tyson. He covers songs we associate with Peter Paul and Mary and The Seekers. Of note also is that his first emmy was for, get this, "MacArthur Park." He loved Harris's version but does an outstanding job singing with the Kimberleys--creating another authentic take on what I consider one of Jimmie Webb's masterpieces.

And finally (I could go on for another page or two...) Waylon did some recording sessions guided by Lee Hazelwood. Later Waylon settles into the whole "Outlaw" thing, but in these early years we see wonderful music coming from unexpected collaborations.

Where has this music been all my life!!! I am now going to buy Part 1 of this collection.

A serious Waylon fan
I have been looking for the song "Revelation"for a very long time.I finally found out that it was on this set of cd's. I couldn't ask for a better collection of music,from such a great artist!I am really enjoying my music. It is worth every cent of the price.

Outstanding Box Set
Here's another immense Bear Family Records Box Set; this one covers the early years of the great Waylon Jennings. This is the pre-"Outlaw" Waylon, before the hype and huge late-70's commercial success. There are 6 CD's here, all of them expertly mixed and with superb sound. While many of the songs included here are Cover songs, Waylon's take on them are as good or better than the originals. The first set of music is typical Waylon-style honkytonk, but is followed by Waylon's brief (thankfully) flirtation with Folk music. We are also introduced to Waylon's take on the Bakersfield Sound; the influences of Wynn Stewart are unmistakable. As with all of the Bear Family releases, there's a huge booklet (this one is actually hardcover, nearly the size of a large phot album) detailing Waylon's early recording career, with pictures from Buddy Holly and Faron Young, and even a young Jessi Colter. This one is well worth your money and will provide hours of listening pleasure. A+