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Honky Tonk Heroes
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Length
10 tracks, 25:07
Release Date
1 January 1973
By 1972, after seven years of recording with RCA, Waylon Jennings had about enough of the control and the restrictions that the "Nashville Sound" imposed to country music artists. Jennings was by the time regarded as a "raising artist" but he still needed the right thing. Around the same time, singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver was also pushing to succeed in music, but he needed a voice for his compositions. Their paths crossed just before the 1972 "Dripping Springs Reunion", a concert regarded as the "Redneck Woodstock". Waylon was on the b… read more
By 1972, after seven years of recording with RCA, Waylon Jennings had about enough of the control and the restrictions that the "Nashville Soun… read more
By 1972, after seven years of recording with RCA, Waylon Jennings had about enough of the control and the restrictions that the "Nashville Sound" imposed to country music arti… read more

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Tracklist

Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track Honky Tonk Heroes
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 2:49 55,977 listeners
2 Play track Old Five and Dimers (Like Me)
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 3:05 11,382 listeners
3 Play track Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me
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 2:19 11,267 listeners
4 Play track Low Down Freedom
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 2:22 13,322 listeners
5 Play track Omaha
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 2:36 16,005 listeners
6 Play track You Ask Me To
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 2:33 33,167 listeners
7 Play track Ride Me Down Easy
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 2:37 13,603 listeners
8 Play track Ain't No God in Mexico
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 2:00 21,001 listeners
9 Play track Black Rose
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 2:00 20,703 listeners
10 Play track We Had It All
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 2:46 18,466 listeners

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Waylon Jennings was a singer, songwriter and guitarist, who recorded 60 albums and had 16 #1 country singles in a career that spanned five decades. Jennings lived a life straight out of a classic country song. With a baritone growl for a voice and a musical style that blended folk lyrics, rock rhythms, and honky-tonk-style instrumentation, Jennings's songs reflected the highs and lows of life on the road. In the 1950s he was mentored by pioneering rocker Buddy Holly, and he narrowly missed ending up a casualty of the same plane crash that killed Holly and two other young rocker… read more
Waylon Jennings was a singer, songwriter and guitarist, who recorded 60 albums and had 16 #1 country singles in a career that spanned five decades. Jennings lived a life straight out of a c… read more
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