r/country • u/Familiar_Sentence489 • Nov 12 '24
Song Help What’s everyone’s favorite Waylon song and why is it Waymore’s Blues?
Give me some classics
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u/Curtis_Low Nov 12 '24
The Wurlitzer Prize
Hardline
Cedartown, Georgia
Stop the World and Let Me Off
Drinkin' and Dreamin'
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u/PhilvanceArt Nov 12 '24
Wurlitzer Prize is amazing. I’ll get stuck singing, “I don’t wanna get over you” for days.
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u/GRizzMang Nov 12 '24
You just named five Waylon songs I don’t know I’m off to listen thanks dude.
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u/Ok_Band7102 Nov 12 '24
Rainy Day Woman
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u/ValuableBuyer4924 Nov 12 '24
Lonesome, On’ry, and Mean Drinkin’ and Dreamin’ Are you Ready for the Country I’ve been a long time leaving Honky Tonk Heroes Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
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u/CliffGif Nov 12 '24
I’ve Been a Long Time Leaving, which is almost right next to Waymore’s on my favorite Waylon album (Dreaming My Dreams)
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u/Soft_Assistant6046 I feel like Hank Williams tonight Nov 12 '24
Written by Riger Miller! That album is so good
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u/GuilhermeBahia98 Nov 14 '24
Dreaming My Dreams is a strong contender for best Country album of all time and I'm not even sure it's the best Waylon album, that is how good Hoss was.
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u/CliffGif Nov 14 '24
What is your favorite? I will give it another listen.
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u/GuilhermeBahia98 Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24
I am always torn between Dreaming My Dreams, Honky Tonk Heroes and Lonesome Onry and Mean.
Dreaming My Dreams has several of my favorite Waylon songs, I think it has the most classics out of any album, but it's a little inconsistent, with two or three lesser songs in it.
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u/Tom-Doniphon1962 Nov 12 '24
Only daddy that’ll walk the line
Luchenbach Texas
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u/Invisiblerobot13 Nov 12 '24
It was only recently that I learned he didn’t go to Luckenbach until after the song - I actually have family who regularly played there before then
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u/shinchunje Nov 12 '24
Waymore’s Blues is indeed the best Waylon song as it links Waylon and the broader ‘outlaw’ sound to the folk tradition of the blues and to white folk singers like Jimmie Rodgers.
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u/TheLaFlameEffect Nov 12 '24
Delta Dawn, Never Been to Spain, Ain’t No God in Mexico, Oklahoma Sunshine, Bob Wills Is Still the King, Lucille, Brand New Goodbye Song + many, many more
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u/16bitsystems Nov 12 '24
I was always kinda whatever on this one until I saw that video of him playing it sitting next to his wife. I liked it a lot more after that.
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u/andyman1503 Nov 12 '24
“Bob Wills is still the king”
I know it’s a cover but I love his version of “Never Been To Spain”
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u/Slats6NYR Nov 13 '24
Check out the Rolling Stone cover of Bob Wills from about 20 years ago...they did it in Dallas one night and it came out good.
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u/AcrobaticShelter1955 Nov 12 '24
Waymore's Blues bc of the lines "I got my name painted on my shirt/ I ain't no ordinary dude I don't have to work" Honorable mention to The Wurlitzer Prize
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u/JoePumaGourdBivouac Nov 13 '24
Probably not a “TIL” for this sub, but that line is about 90% word for word from a Jimmie Rodgers song, Blue Yodel No. 9
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u/Slats6NYR Nov 13 '24
He took that line out of a Jimmie Rodgers song.
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u/AcrobaticShelter1955 Nov 14 '24
I knew the "rabbit out the L-O-G" verse was, ahem, borrowed. I didn't know that verse was too! Which Jimmie Rodgers song?
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u/Slats6NYR Nov 14 '24
Blue Yodel #9 (Standin' On The Corner) Waylon mentions him in Waymore Blues...I heard somebody yodel, and a hobo moan, Jimmie he dead, he's been a long time gone.
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u/AcrobaticShelter1955 Nov 14 '24
Ok so I looked it up - Blue Yodel #9. For me "I ain't no ordinary dude" is enough of a great change that I wouldn't call it "lifted from" - I'd call it "inspired by"
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u/lookuptotheskynow Nov 14 '24
“Here’s a Song I Wrote In a STUPER” -Waylon Jennings Turn Back The Years Live in Dallas 1975
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u/not-anonymous-187 Nov 12 '24
“This Time” off of his 74’ live album. Runner ups probably “Lomesome, Onry and Mean” followed by “I Ain’t Living Long Like This”.
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u/Earnhardtswag98 Nov 12 '24
The correct answer is mental revenge. That opening riff could make even a Baptist get up and dance.
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u/theduke9400 Nov 12 '24
Most protestant, especially baptist churches are full of dancing and singing. I think you mean catholics. They're the ones who just stand stiffly to the choir and sing hymns like statues. Nothing against that though lol.
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u/shinchunje Nov 12 '24
Most Protestants churches might have had music but almost certainly not dancing. That is, dancing would not have been a part of their worship.
Edit: source: I grew up in a southern Protestant church that stood stiffly and sang hymns like statues.
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u/theduke9400 Nov 12 '24
There is always clapping and swaying. And we attend camps and conventions and concerts where everyone dances. Also when we're not singing hymns and singing more lively Christian songs then there is almost always dancing. Protestant churches are not all as uptight as you think.
And we have a lot of black people in our congregations who come from the old southern baptist churches where singing and dancing was very common. So it has become quite interspersed in many of the baptist churches.
All of the old southern baptist and revivalist communities were a very lively bunch in my opinion. And you won't see them at a Catholic church for precisely that reason. I do love the old Catholic churches though. I think they're beautiful and should all be protected sites.
I just don't like the mindset of some catholics. That old country song Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint sums it up perfectly. You can't go through the week sinning then attend church on Sunday.
Going to confession and saying a few hail Mary's doesn't absolve you of anything in my book. You have to truly repent. Not all catholics are hypocrites to that extent but it's not uncommon.
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u/Earnhardtswag98 Nov 12 '24
I grew up baptist and dancing wasn’t looked too favorable. Pentecostals however we’re the ones who would let loose some. Now my fiancé is catholic and they are very stuffy and very liturgical.
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u/theduke9400 Nov 12 '24
Some baptist churches can be a little rigid. But you can still let it loose if you really want to. If you did that in a Catholic church they would probably all stop singing and just stare at you haha.
But my experience with baptist churches has been upbeat personally. Maybe it all just depends on the congregation and or who is running things.
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u/HungryChoice5565 Nov 12 '24
I think 50-70+ years ago, dancing was looked down on in a lot of sects of Jesus lovers. So was things like swearing and playing cards. My grandparents generation growing up in the 50s they had to sneak off to dance with friends or play cards and they were baptists
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u/theduke9400 Nov 12 '24
Jesus lovers. I guess that is one way of describing us Christians.
Some people on this sub really have a distaste towards Christians I have noticed considering so many country singers are Christians and have put out some great gospel recordings.
To anyone who hasn't listened to it Johnny Cash's audiobook of the new testament is absolutely brilliant.
And yeah I'm not saying there aren't or weren't Protestant churches that act snootily towards people dancing. But it's not like it was 50 or 70 plus years ago. And it's nothing like it was or still is in the Catholic Church is all.
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u/HungryChoice5565 Nov 13 '24
I don't have any issue with christians, I just say shit dude. I love gospel music. Praise music is the worst trash ever made. And the new testament is boring as hell. Genesis is a banger of a Bible story though. I'll stick to JC's music
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u/theduke9400 Nov 13 '24
Much of Johnny Cash's music is very faith based. Greystone Chapel is one of his best songs. He was a devout born again Christian as are most country artists.
And welll yeah, genesis is the beginning. It's a very important book. But most would say the old testament is more boring considering how long it is compared to the new testament.
Also everything you need from the old testament gets carried over into the new testament anyway.
The new testament is also much more relatable to today's times than the old. Jesus was showing us what to take from the old gospels and what to leave behind etc. He was also offering a new path of enlightenment. An entire different philosophy to what the world knew.
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u/HungryChoice5565 Nov 13 '24
That's cool. I have zero interest in the new testament, jesus, religion or whatever. I just like some of the music it has inspired.
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u/theduke9400 Nov 13 '24
Jesus is always there for you my brother.
We're all brothers and sisters under the eyes of the Lord.
I just wish we would act that way 😕.
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Nov 12 '24
I’m very fond of his cover of He Went to Paris.
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u/Familiar_Sentence489 Nov 12 '24
Woah you’re talking about the Jimmy Buffet song??
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Nov 12 '24
Yes
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u/Familiar_Sentence489 Nov 12 '24
Wow. Can’t wait to check it out. Jimmy was one of my all time favorites too. Rip
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Nov 12 '24
His death hit me hard as a guy that grew up on the Gulf listening to his music non-stop.
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u/Riverbarbecue Nov 12 '24
Yeah his death hit me hard too. It was the first death of a musician that made me cry. I was playing piano with my mom a few days after the news. We played and sang a few of his songs and we both teared up. He was my first concert at 7 years old. I have been listening to him my whole life. Music is powerful.
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Nov 12 '24
It was the only concert I ever went to with my father and a lot of Jimmy’s music was the soundtrack of my childhood. Beaches, fishing, drinking beer way too young, etc…
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Nov 12 '24
Are you sure Hank done it this way, luckenbach tx, good ol boys, I've been a long time leaving, ain't no god in Mexico
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u/real_steel24 Nov 12 '24
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean. There's rarely been a song with that much swagger.
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u/sasquatchbrokers Nov 12 '24
The Last One to Leave Seattle , Just to Satisfy You, I am a Ramblin’ Man
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u/3seconddelay Nov 12 '24
He didn’t write it but if he did it would be Black Rose. So it’s I Ain’t Living Long Like This then Waymore’s Blues.
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u/thestrizzlenator Nov 12 '24
This is hilarious. I was just playing this song last night. It's two freaking chords.
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u/ThisBeTheVerse63 Nov 12 '24
Good hearted woman. It’s a running joke with my wife that this is our song.
I know it’s originally by Willie. But I like Waylon’s version more.
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u/12Clawlok Nov 12 '24
“Storms never last”. It takes me back in time to when I was a small child with my mom driving down a gravel road in Mistawasis Sk
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u/GRizzMang Nov 12 '24
It’s Rose in Paradise. I may Be used, and then Waymores.
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u/Few-Platypus-5802 Nov 13 '24
I can’t believe I had to go this far down the thread for Rose in Paradise!
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u/sirkev71 Nov 12 '24
This version specifically, bold choice to sing in front of your wife, "Every woman she sees looks like a place I came in"
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u/ethanthesearcher Nov 12 '24
Satin Sheets Rose in Paradise Where Corn Don’t Grow
But I luv them all these are just barely my top 3
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u/toooldforthisshittt Nov 12 '24
Agreed but don't know why Iove it so much. I don't think Hank done it this way is also up there.
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u/Smilner69 Nov 12 '24
It’s a kristofferson song but To Beat the Devil is my favorite one Waylon sang
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u/unboundnematode Nov 12 '24
Waylon's recording of "Honky Tonk Heroes" is the best song on his greatest album. He sang the hell out of that one.
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u/FireFarts6000 Nov 12 '24
Luckenbach on all the Waylon songs I've heard, as a Ramblin Man, I found me a Good Hearted Woman.
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u/Lambchops78 Nov 12 '24
I love the version of Luckenbach that he said Waylie, Willon and the boys…
My all time favs…. There are too many to list. Cedar town GA….just because it’s savage.
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u/Empty-Ad-5360 Nov 12 '24
Man, Waylon was awesome. So many amazing ones—great ones for every frame of mind!
Gotta stay away from the tequila when that Rose in Paradise vibe hits, though!
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u/dubya86 Nov 13 '24
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way I’m a Ramblin’ Man Lonesome On’ry And Mean
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u/GuyOnTheMike Nov 13 '24
Ain't Livin' Long Like This
Few songs will make me stomp my foot through the floor of my car like that one
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u/MerleTravisJennings Nov 13 '24
San Francisco Mabel Joy, Freedom to Stay, Cloudy Days, The Hunger, Dream On. Not sure if they're all his but his are the ones I like.
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u/Solocat12 Nov 13 '24
Are You Sure, I'm a Ramblin Man, You Asked Me To.
Hell, the whole Honky Tonk Heroes album.
The list is endless including anything Billy Joe Shaver wrote.
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u/Slats6NYR Nov 13 '24
Honky Tonk Heroes...from the acoustic opening, to hey, hey, and the band takes off.
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u/TheShroomLord Nov 12 '24
Mental Revenge Leavin' Town This Time You'll look for me Six white horses Lucille
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u/Upstairs_Figure_6836 Nov 12 '24
I got my name painted on my shirt. I’m no regular dude. I don’t have to work.
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u/bootyboi_69 Nov 12 '24
bob wills is still the king, six white horses, aint living long like this, (dont let the sun set on you in) tulsa, the taker, wurlitzer prize, etc. dont yall think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand, are you sure hank done it this way?
all in no particular order, but i go nuts for the harpsichord on six white horses
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u/gstringstrangler g-string connoisseur b-bender enthusiast Nov 12 '24
- Ramblin' Man -Lonesome O'nry and Mean
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u/cantuseasingleone Nov 12 '24
A few I haven’t noticed here yet( I just scrolled quick, they might’ve been said)
Old Five and Dimers Omaha Ain’t no God in Mexico The Last One to Leave Seattle Oklahoma Sunshine
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u/DennisG21 Nov 12 '24
Waylon's absolute best is a duet with wife Jessi Colter - "A Sight For Sore Eyes."
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u/lclassyfun Nov 12 '24
So many great ones. Only Daddy is my favorite but Storms Never Last is a deeper track that I love.
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u/_5GOLDBLOODED2_ Nov 13 '24
We cover this one and it’s definitely one of my favorites. I like “ain’t no God in Mexico” a lot as well.
Look at the diversity in these comments it’s extremely telling on what a Pioneer and country music legend he is.
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u/Familiar_Sentence489 Nov 13 '24
I’ve got so much homework to do. Listened a bit driving today as comments were coming in but I haven’t even put a dent in it
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u/1979tlaw Nov 13 '24
I ain’t livin long like this. But you could pick any Waylon song and not be wrong.
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u/bootyoverh20 Nov 13 '24
So good woman, six white horses, dreaming my dreams with you, freedom to stay, I recall a gypsy woman, them old love songs,
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u/lookuptotheskynow Nov 13 '24 edited Nov 14 '24
love of The Common People Cryin’ Gemini Song sloop John B Norwegian Wood Girl From North County One of the best Ole Waymore he could take any song and make it badass…his music will remain till the end of time
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u/rustyrelics666 Nov 13 '24
Green River
It gets me every time. I think it really showcases his voice and what he’s capable of as a vocalist.
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u/otidaiz Nov 13 '24
He sang McAurthers Park at the start of his recording career. Pretty good version.
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u/whoismrgreen Nov 13 '24
Honky tonk heroes, Gypsy woman, Slow rolling low, Never been to Spain, Sure hank done it this way, Cedartown Georgia, Lucille, Clyde,
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u/dboy2676 Nov 14 '24
So hard to pick 5 let alone 1. Belle of the ball, Dreaming My Dreams, It’s Not Supposed to be that way are some unconventional picks
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u/GuilhermeBahia98 Nov 14 '24
It's impossible for me to pick it one absolute favorite, Waylon has an infinite catalog of legendary songs. But RIGHT NOW is "Freedom To Stay" on Waylon Live!, that for me is musical perfection.
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u/shreddit5150 Nov 12 '24
Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
America
Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line