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Only the Greatest

by: Waylon Jennings

Release Date May 27, 2008
Critics -- and supposedly Jennings himself -- usually maintain his style was well and truly cramped by the machinations of his label RCA until around 1973 when he'd been making albums for almost a decade. Long out of print until now, this is the album to knock that argument flat. It's a Chet Atkins production on tracks from early 1967 to mid 1968 and is a perfect rich-sounding amalgam of Atkins two marketing concepts of the "Nashville Sound" and "Folk-Country". Jennings' voice is at it's most operatic. And material-wise it's all-killer-no-filler. The only cover-version (so often a lazy staple of 60's country albums) is a magnificent version of an already-great number: Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman". Otherwise it's stellar contemporary ... Read More: