Live from Austin TX: Austin City Limits '84

Performer: Waylon Jennings
Engineer: Billy Lee Myers, Jr.; David Hough
Producer: Terry Lickona; Cameron Strang; Gary Briggs
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Waylon Jennings (vocals, guitar); Gary Scruggs (guitar, harmonica); Ralph Mooney (pedal steel guitar); Floyd Domino (piano); Jerry Bridges (bass instrument); Dan Mustoe (drum). Audio Mixers: Chet Himes; Gary Briggs. The 1989 live-from-Austin City Limits Waylon album that New West released previous to this one documents a top-notch performance, but LIVE FROM AUSTIN, TX '84 finds Waylon just a bit more spry, still bearing strong traces of his classic '70s "outlaw" era. In fact, songs from his groundbreaking mid-'70s album dominate here, like the Billy Joe Shaver-penned anthem "Honky Tonk Heroes" and Jennings's own self-referential "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand," all delivered with plenty of grit and fire.

Texan country singer Waylon Jennings was always a bit of a rocker. Early on, he played bass with Buddy Holly, and his first solo records included Beatles covers, highly unusual for a country artist at the time. Jennings was one of the key figures of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, rejecting 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, Jennings introduced contemporary rock-oriented grooves into his hard-hitting country sound, adding some funky grit to common-man poetics on tunes about the tougher side of life. He inspired a subsequent generation of country iconoclasts, and spurred on contemporaries like Willie Nelson and Tompall Glaser.

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