Track Listing

1. Jack of Diamonds
2. Outlaw Sh*t
3. Ain't Livin Long Like This
4. Are You Ready For The Country?
5. Lonesome On'ry and Mean
6. Waymore's Blues
7. White Room
8. I Found The Body

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32393 in Music
• Released on: 2008-10-21
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
2008 release of Grammy Award Winner and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Waylon Jennings' final recording Waylon Forever on Vagrant Records. The eight-song collection of cover songs and originals feature the vocals of Waylon Jennings backed by his son Shooter Jennings and the .357's. Waylon Jennings' career spanned for more than 40 years. During his lifetime he released over 50 studio albums which generated 16 number one singles and four Country Music Awards. Texan country singer Waylon Jennings was a rocker from way back. He played bass with Buddy Holly, and his first solo records included Beatles songs, which was not usual for a Country musician at the time.

Customer Reviews

Waylon rocks. But we knew that.
If, say, George Jones were to come out with a pscyhedelic rock record, we would all be shocked. We'd probably still like it (I did say George Jones, right?), but we'd tilt our heads to the side like some puzzled mutt, wondering what was wrong with this picture.

But we aren't too surprised here. Why is that? Because Waylon always did things his way. And this isn't REALLY a psychedelic rock record...it's a psychedelic country/rock record, with perhaps more emphasis upon the rock...but the country's still there, yessir. "Lonesome On'ry And Mean" hasn't really changed a whole lot since the seventies...and that's just fine. "Jack of Diamonds" is a little more spruced up, and that's fine too. "Waymore's Blues" has gone on a bender (in a good way), "Are You Ready for the Country" follows a similar suit, and "Ain't Livin' Long Like This" has finally become a flat-out rock song (as, I must suggest, it was always meant to be).

Shooter Jennings produces/arranges (this is as much his project as Daddy's), and his .357s band provided the backdrop...but the star here is Waylon, in the finest vocal form we heard him since the seventies. He snarls his way through Cream's "White Room," and that smoldering closer, "I Found the Body" (a co-write with Shooter)...it just leaves you chilled to the bone. WAYLON FOREVER, labelled as Waylon's final recordings, stands as a testament to two things: one, Waylon was perhaps the finest outlaw singer country music (or the world) ever saw...and two, he hadn't really changed all that much. Just check out "Don't You Think This Outlaw Stuff Has Done Gotten Out of Hand," reworked here into a power ballad (complete with strings!), yet simply re-titled "Outlaw Sh**." Six years after his death, Waylon is still smirking at us, not really caring if we get the joke or not. He did things HIS way; the rest of us be damned. If that's not an outlaw...then I'm sorry, but I just don't know what is.

Up and down
When Waylon Jennings passed on in 2002, country music lost one of its real heroes. But the spirit always lives on and we are lucky enough to have Shooter Jennings around, who has propped up these tapes from around 1996 and put them out for us. It must have been a hell of a kick for Shooter to record with him when he was 16.

This was actually an album they were trying (unsuccessfully) to shop around for a record deal rather than a random collection thrown together. It's a bit short at 35 minutes, but back in the day that was a normal length for an album. It sounds like it's all recorded live, you wouldn't know the difference. The real stand out is "Outlaw S***" which is a slowing down of "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand", turned into a ballad and slightly re worded. It really is something else, as said in rolling stone, it is Waylon's Hurt. Then we have a new song called "I Found The Body" which sounds like it could have been put out in the 1970s when Ol' Waylon was storming through the scene. Other than that there's nothing ground breaking, but it's a fun listen.

Glad To Have It!
This was a complete surprise to me! When I saw they were releasing another Waylon Jennings CD I thought it was another compilation of his hits so I shrugged it off! Then I saw that it wasn't according to Shooter (his son) a few days later and listened to a soundbit of Lonesome On're and Mean on the internet! I knew it was different then what the song originally was and liked it! I'm a big Waylon Jennings fan and had to go out and buy it immediately. I own everything else by him so I had to add it to my collection bad or not! I'm happy to report that I will be listening to this for a long time in my car even at only eight songs! Also, this is the first time I ever heard Waylon say the "s" word in two of these songs! If you like Waylon, you'll like this CD! "Nuff said!"