Are You Ready for the Country [Import, Original recording remastered]

Waylon Jennings | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 2003)
• Original Release Date: July 8, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Camden International
• ASIN: B00008XRTL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,195 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Are You Ready For The Country

2. Them Old Love Songs

3. So Good Woman

4. Jack A Diamonds

5. Can't You See

6. MacArthur Park

7. I'll Go Back To Her

8. A Couple More Years

9. Old Friend

10. Precious Memories

11. I Ain't Living Long Like This

12. What Goes Around

13. Another Man's Fool

14. I Got The Train Sittin' Waitin'

15. It's The World's Gone Crazy (Cotillion)

16. Ivory Tower

17. Out Among The Stars

18. Come With Me

19. If You See Her

20. Old Love, New Eyes

Editorial Reviews

Waylon was always sort of a rock-star type within the world of country music, so this 1976 album seemed like a natural-he sings the title Neil Young song (this version cracked the country Top 10) plus songs by the Marshall Tucker Band, Dr. Hook and even Jimmy Webb's MacArthur Park . This country classic topped the country album charts for 10 weeks! --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Waylon is the best music has to offer!, March 12, 2005

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DanD - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Are You Ready for the Country (Audio CD)

ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY is advertised at Waylon's "mature" record, a transition from the outlaw status to the soft-hearted, world-weary singer. Yet, there's still enough grit on this album to show that Waylon never lost his sandpaper edge, that he could easily combine he reknowned attitude with a heavy heart.

Such songs as the Neil Young penned title track and the cover of Marshal Tucker Band's "Can't You See" are heavy on the country/rock, while "Them Old Love Songs" is a slow country ballad that'll take you back to the good ol' days. "Old Friend" is a tribute to Waylon's late friend "Buddy Holly," while "Precious Memories" is one of the few gospel tunes Waylon ever recorded (despite the fact his voice was made to sing the genre).

ARE YOU READY FOR THE COUNTRY has no downside to it. It is a collection of truly great songs sung by one of the best voices country music ever had to offer. Waylon Jennings left a huge legacy behind him, and this album is an example of Waylon at the peak of his talents.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings back memories, November 6, 2003

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William D. Ferrell (Poca, WV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Are You Ready for the Country (Audio CD)

It was back in the late 1970's and I was a teenager who loved to listen to Waylon. These songs are classic "outlaw" waylon at it's best. Back in the mid 1970's Waylon released "Are You Ready For The Country" continuing on in the tradition of "Ramblin' Man", "This Time", "Honky Tonk Heroes" and the other albums he had been doing since breaking free from the "Nashville" production on the earlier sessions (they were good, but sounded like all the other Country artists on RCA at the time)... Waylon however wanted to do it his way and nowhere is it more evident than on "Are You Ready For The Country".
This set begins with the rocking title cut then he eases down with "So Good Woman" which sounds like it must have been directed straight at Jessi "You know I've run around all my life/You could've done better cause you've been a good wife"
"Them Old Love Songs" is the third track and talks about someones wish to find a love "like people do in them old love songs"... I could go on and on, but one of my favorites on here is "MacArthurs Park". Waylon had done a version with a female vocalist back in the last 1970's but the Nashville people put strings, horns and flutes in it. This time Waylon did it his way, singing all the vocals and using his band with the trademark sound of Ralph Mooney's steel guitar taking front and center. There is also the tribute to Buddy Holly here called "Old Friend" among others that are just plain good music.
This CD continues with the lp "What Goes Around" which starts off with "Ain't Living Long Like This", goes into the title cut and the first four songs are toe tappers, one of the best of which is "I've Got The Train Settin' Waitin", but then it gets weird with "It's The World's Gone Crazy" ("the dancer's are dancin' alone/the sidemen all want to be frontmen and the front men all want to go home... just an example of the lyrics on that weird little tune)... Side two of that album showed a more laid back smoothe Waylon starting with "Ivory Tower" then the story song "Out Among The Stars" about a down and out young man who "can't find a job but has found a gun" and holds up a liquor store, then the classic "Come With Me"... there are more tunes here but I've hit the hilites on two of my favorite Waylon lps of all time and they've put them together on this one CD... What more could you ask for?

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two distinctly different faces of a legend, June 16, 2003

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F. Fowler (Oviedo, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Are You Ready for the Country (Audio CD)

The pairing of these two pieces of Waylon's work seems rather odd. However, both are very welcome to be back in my Waylon collection after several years of being absent. "Are You Ready For The Country" is an example of Waylon's ability to capture that renegade spirit during the height of his commercial success. All of these songs are pure Waylon at his best, but his rendition of Toy Caldwell's "Can't You See" is, in this reviewer's opinion, the epitome of what the "Outlaw Movement" of the seventies was all about. Listening to "What Goes Around" takes us into a different era of Waylon's fame and legend. You can tell that his taste in material has changed, as has his delivery. Two stand out tracks on this album are "If You See Her" and "Old Love, New Eyes". Waylon was always defying anybody to label his music or pidgeonhole him as an artist. The differences in these two albums
is a testament to what made him one of the greatest recording artist in the history of country music. He could continuosly grow and expand his horizons, all the while making his fans want to ride along and listen. This collection brought back a lot of great memories for me. Thank's Amazon for offering it. And thank you Waylon, for all those years of rebellious inspiration.