Super Hits [2007]

Performer: Waylon Jennings
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Super Hits is an imperfect but entertaining budget-line collection that contains a handful of Waylon's big hits, balanced by some album tracks. While the album cuts aren't as great as the hits, this isn't a bad sampler, considering its bargain price. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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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