Waylon Jennings Waylon + Just To Satisfy Your Country - Folk With The Kimberlys (2-CD)

(Morello Records) 34 tracks, 3 Classic Albums on 2 CDs, includes an eight-page booklet with two pages of liner notes by Tony Byworth and basic credits for all three albums.

Following the release of Waylon Jennings' first four RCA Victor albums on a 2-CD set this year, Cherry Red's Morello imprint returns to the outlaw country legend's early milieu with a trilogy of albums from 1969-1970 on another 2-CD collection: Waylon (1970), Just to Satisfy You (1969) and the country-folk collaboration with The Kimberlys (1969).

This triple release picks up where one of the prolific singer Morello's earlier collections - including Love of the Common People (1967), Hangin' On (1968), Only the Greatest (1968) and Jewels (1968) - left off.  Like Jennings' previous RCA long-playing records, 1969's Just to Satisfy You was produced by Nashville boss and guitar hero Chet Atkins along with Felton Jarvis.  The title song dated from 1963, when Waylon and Don Bowman co-wrote and recorded it for the Hollywood label A&M Records.  Although it became regionally famous, it failed to capture the national market.  But it did catch the attention of singer-songwriter Bobby Bare, whose support in part convinced Atkins to sign Jennings. Just to Satisfy You was covered by Glen Campbell, Barbara Mandrell, Jerry Reed and others, and when Waylon re-recorded it with friend Willie Nelson in 1982, it became their third duet chart-topper.  The LP, which entered the Billboard country charts at #7, also featured material by Ben Peters (I've Been Needing Someone Like You), Charlie Rich (Lonely Weekends), Curly Putman (Change My Mind) and Shel Silverstein (For the Kids).  Anita Carter accompanied Waylon on two songs.  Despite this top-notch lineup, Jennings was uncomfortable under Atkins' direction, and the elder statesman was all too ready to return to his work as a musician.  Waylon's next album was to be his first with big band and music industry veteran Danny Davis of The Nashville Brass.

Jennings' relationship with Davis was famously strained, but the music they created together still endures.  Country-Folk with The Kimberlys remains one of Jennings' most atypical albums.  Waylon encouraged Chet Atkins to sign the group, consisting of two sisters and their husbands - both of whom were brothers.  (One of the wives, Verna Gay Kimberly, entered into a relationship with Waylon around this time).  Under Davis' direction, the album embodies the lush pop side of the Nashville sound.

Though unusual in the Jennings discography, country-folk spawned a hit with Jimmy Webb's epic "MacArthur Park," which became a No. 2 hit for actor Richard Harris in 1968.  "Danny and I argued a few times about the arrangement," Jennings wrote in his memoir.  "I knew exactly what I wanted the strings to do; I had to hum the parts. He probably had his own ideas. But the single made the Top 25 that fall.... At that point, everyone was more than happy to say it was his idea."  The track also made the Hot 100 and earned Waylon and The Kimberlys a Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group.  Country-folk also included three original songs by group member Harold Gay, as well as cover versions penned by Jackie DeShannon ("Come Stay with Me"), Joe South ("Games People Play"), Gordon Lightfoot ("Long Way Back Home") and Tom Springfield of The Springfields ("World of Our Own").  With its strong songs and smooth pop feel, the album made it to #13 on the country charts.

The third and final album in this series, 1970's Waylon, was compiled from various sessions produced by both Chet Atkins and Danny Davis.  In a number of songs his band The Waylors participated, while Merle Haggard's "All of Me Belongs to You" was recorded with Anita Carter.  Waylon scored his third Top 5 solo hit with his cover of Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," the only single from the LP.  Waylon is a transitional album, with the Nashville sound largely intact, but Waylon pushing its boundaries with material like "33rd of August" by fellow future Outlaw Mickey Newbury.  The album also included "Yellow Haired Woman," Waylon's tribute to his third wife Barbara Rood, and a re-recording of Liz Anderson's "Yes, Virginia."

Waylon Jennings

The Jennings family was like many in West Texas, subsistence farmers and odd jobbers. His folks, William Albert Jennings and Lorene Beatrice Shipley, had married in 1935, and he was the oldest child, born June l5, 1937. Littlefield was a town built around the cotton fields, carved up from a three million acre ranch that had been under the aegis of Major George Washington Littlefield at the turn of the twentieth century. The seat of Lamb County, it was bisected by the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad, and it was as typical a small town Texas life as could be, working in his Daddy's produce store, chasing girls through the town square, watching the cowboy pictures at the Palace Theatre.

There was music in the family - his Daddy loved to sing like Bill Monroe and pluck his guitar thumb-and-finger style, while his Momma showed him how to form his first chords - and more crackling over the radio: the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride and Stan's Record Rack and, one morning in the fall of 1954, the echoings of a countryish singer who sounded like no other country singer before: Elvis Presley, reprising Arthur Crudup's That's Alright, Mama and Bill Monroe's Blue Moon Of Kentucky.

Waylon himself leaned toward Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb, and soon enough was trying to emulate his idols by appearing at the weekly Palace Theatre talent shows. Finding he wasn't much good at most of the available menial labors in town, he found a job at the Voice of Lamb County, KVOW, as a disc jockey, playing a variety of music from Mantovani to country to the classics. Slowly his circle of performing expanded, and he was able to watch the rise of rock and roll first-hand when a local boy from Lubbock, Buddy Holly, had a hit record called
The Jennings family was like many in West Texas, subsistence farmers and odd jobbers. His folks, William Albert Jennings and Lorene Beatrice Shipley, had married in 1935, and he was the oldest child, born June l5, 1937. Littlefield was a town built around the cotton fields, carved up from a three million acre ranch that had been under the aegis of Major George Washington Littlefield at the turn of the twentieth century. The seat of Lamb County, it was bisected by the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad, and it was as typical a small town Texas life as could be, working in his Daddy's produce store, chasing girls through the town square, watching the cowboy pictures at the Palace Theatre.

There was music in the family - his Daddy loved to sing like Bill Monroe and pluck his guitar thumb-and-finger style, while his Momma showed him how to form his first chords - and more crackling over the radio: the Grand Ole Opry and the Louisiana Hayride and Stan's Record Rack and, one morning in the fall of 1954, the echoings of a countryish singer who sounded like no other country singer before: Elvis Presley, reprising Arthur Crudup's That's Alright, Mama and Bill Monroe's Blue Moon Of Kentucky.

Waylon himself leaned toward Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb, and soon enough was trying to emulate his idols by appearing at the weekly Palace Theatre talent shows. Finding he wasn't much good at most of the available menial labors in town, he found a job at the Voice of Lamb County, KVOW, as a disc jockey, playing a variety of music from Mantovani to country to the classics. Slowly his circle of performing expanded, and he was able to watch the rise of rock and roll first-hand when a local boy from Lubbock, Buddy Holly, had a hit record called That'll Be The Day.
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