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Waylon Jennings - The Ramblin' Man Audio CD

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Waylon Jennings Band: Waylon Jennings
Title: The Ramblin' Man
Rating:
Release Date: 2000-02-08
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I'm a Ramblin' Man 2: Rainy Day Woman 3: Cloudy Days 4: Midnight Rider 5: Oklahoma Sunshine 6: Hunger 7: I Can't Keep My Hands Off of You 8: Memories of You and I 9: It'll Be Her 10: Amanda 11: Got a Lot Going for Me [*] 12: Last Letter [#][*] 13: One I Sing My Love Song To [#][*]

Another Perfect WJ Album
This is easily one of my favorite of Waylon's studio efforts from his '70s peak. One of Waylon's two great albums from 1974. Although it doesn't sound all that much different from his other albums of this period, it is still a fantastic album with top-notch songs. I highly recommend this album for mellow evenings, poker nights or just plain relaxing.

Best Songs:

"I'm A Ramblin' Man"
"Rainy Day Woman"
"Midnight Rider"
"The Hunger"
"Amanda".


Love This Stuff
This is the last 70's Waylon album I needed to complete my collection, I don't know why I waited until now to buy it, maybe it was the scary cover, but now that I have it, I am sorry I waited so long, it contains a class set of tunes, hard for any Waylon fan to resist, it's not his best, but this time period was near his masterpiece releases and is still a great album.


Rainy Day Woman / Cloudy Days
These are great country songs. These are two songs you don't always hear on the radio or ever at all. Waylon's guitar is bright and full here.

Do you like anything by Waylon? If so, you'll LOVE this! I believe this is one of his peak recordings. His version of Midnight Rider is good.

OK. Now that I'm writing this, I have to admit, this is one of my favorite country records ever. This is like pure gold. If you don't have this one, and you like real country, you are missing out.


Another good'un from Ol' Waylon!
It's an album that was perhaps a sign of things to come -- "Dreaming My Dreams" -- with a few tender ballads mixed with more uptempo numbers. "The Ramblin' Man," pre-"Dreaming My Dreams" and post-"This Time," is an album that shows Waylon in both rockin' (title track, "Rainy Day Woman," "Midnight Rider," "Memories Of You And I") and more tender modes ("The Hunger," "Amanda"). Waylon could rock with the best of them, but he was also as good with a ballad as anyone you could ever hope to find. Put simply, he was extremely versatile.

"The Ramblin' Man" has a number of outstanding cuts in the title track, "Rainy Day Woman," "The Hunger," "Memories Of You And I," "Amanda," and my personal favourite, "Midnight Rider. " This album really doesn't have any "filler" -- just prime Waylon.

Musically, Waylon plays plenty of lead guitar. He really smokes on "Rainy Day Woman" and "Midnight Rider," and he plays very tastefully on "Cloudy Days" and "Amanda. " This album contains some classic Waylon guitar moments -- things that the students of his guitar style can learn a great deal from. It also features what is, I believe, the first recorded evidencee of Waylon's use of the phase shifter, the guitar effect that would shape his guitar tone later on. Vocally Waylon is, of course, stunning on this album.

"The Ramblin' Man" is another essential album. It captures that unique "Waylon sound" that Waylon became so well-known for. On this album you'll hear that sound becoming more and more like the sound that would dominate his later albums. Maybe it's not considered on-par with "Honky Tonk Heroes" or "Dreaming My Dreams" by many, but it is still a damn fine example of Ol' Waylon's incredible musical talent, and it's better than the so-called "country" that is out there today.

Meaninful songs played and sung by a man who could make you feel them. 5 stars.


Another good one
This one is a good one, not as good as Dreaming My Dreams or Honkytonk Heroes. Another good Waylon Jennings album - made in Waylon's height of his popularity. . . but still excellent. Memories of You and I is absolutely fantastic - as are Waylon's version of Midnight Rider and the song "The Hunger". Great record, they need to keep re-issuing his old stuff.


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