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'Lonesome, On'ry And Mean' - A Tribute To Waylon Jennings |
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from Rolling Stone.com"Considering that tribute albums containing any more than one or two tracks worth keeping are rarer than dead legends without a tribute album, the fact that Lonesome, On'ry and Mean holds up from beginning to end seems a minor miracle. Actually, it's just a case of good taste over good marketing: pick artists with an honest-to-god connection (personal or attitude wise) to Waylon Jennings, rather than ones with current chart hits. The only example of the latter you'll find here is Norah Jones, whose only connection to Ol' Waylon seems to be that they both played with Willie Nelson. But that said, her smoky version of "Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" beats anything off her Grammy lauded debut. Everyone else -- from Texas songsters like Guy Clark ("Good Hearted Woman") and Nanci Griffith ("You Asked Me To") to grizzled old punks John Doe ("Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line") and Henry Rollins (the title track) -- flies well under the commercial radar and connects with their chosen songs with smart bomb precision. Case in point: Any album that hands Carlene Carter the keys to "I've Always Been Crazy" is dangerously on target. Damn straight, Waylon done it this way. 4 stars"~ Rolling Stone.com |
 1. Guy Clark Good Hearted Woman2. Nanci Griffith You Asked Me To 3. Dave Alvin Amanda 4. Norah Jones Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want To Get Over You) 5. Cowboy Jack Clement Let's All Help The Cowboys (Sing The Blues) 6. John Doe Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line 7. Junior Brown Nashville Rebel 8. Robert Earl Keen Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way 9. Carlene Carter I've Always Been Crazy 10. Radney Foster with Roger Creager Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love) 11. Allison Moorer Storms Never Last 12. Kris Kristofferson I Do Believe 13. Alejandro Escovedo Lock Stock and Teardrops 14. The Crickets Waymore's Blues 15. Henry Rollins Lonesome, On'ry and Mean |