Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes [Reissue]

Honky Tonk Heroes is the quintessential 'Outlaw country' album. Waylon Jennings spent the early seventies working his way up to this rough-and-tumble masterpiece, arguably the finest album of his prolific career.

Jennings was so taken with the songwriting of Nashville rowdy Billy Joe Shaver that he decided to record this almost all-Shaver album which helped put Shaver on the map as the poet laureate of the Outlaw set.

Jennings eschewed the lush countrypolitan sound in favor of a raw, electrified approach that owed more to the Rolling Stones than to Billy Sherrill. With a small band and simple arrangements, he introduced contemporary rock-oriented beats into his hard-hitting country sound, adding some funky grit to Shaver's common-man poetics on tunes about the tougher side of life.

This album stands as one of the most important country recordings of the seventies.

• Honky Tonk Heroes
• Old Five and Dimers Like Me
• Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
• Low Down Freedom
• Omaha
• You Asked Me To
• Ride Me Down Easy
• Ain't No God in Mexico
• Black Rose
• We Had It All
• Slow Rollin' Low [Bonus Track]
• You Asked Me To (single version) [Bonus Track]