Don't Think Twice (album)
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Studio album by Waylon Jennings | ||||
Released | March 1970 | |||
Recorded | April 1964 – January 1965[1] | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | A&M | |||
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Don't Think Twice is a studio album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1970 on A&M Records. It consists of previously issued singles and a few unreleased recordings from his days at A&M during 1963-65. The title track, as well as "I Don't Believe You" are cover versions of Bob Dylan songs. Several of the other songs on the album are standards. "Just to Satisfy You", first recorded by Jennings in 1964, was re-recorded and issued on the 1969 RCA Victor Jennings album Just to Satisfy You.
Background
By 1970, Waylon Jennings was on a steady but slow path to national prominence as a performer. The previous year, Decca (later MCA, now Universal Music) had purchased the rights to the "JD's" album from Jim Musil, and reissued ten of the album's twelve songs as "Waylon Jennings", on the budget Vocalion label.
Despite leaving A&M for RCA in 1965, Waylon remained on good terms with Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. A&M wanted to capitalize on Waylon's time with them, and set about putting together the album. Engineer Bernie Grundman was given the task of preparing the album, and rather than simply transferring the existing mixes onto LP, he created new mixes of some of the previously-issued songs and brought others recorded just prior to Waylon's departure for RCA out of the vault.[3]
As a result, there are substantial musical differences between the single versions of "Just To Satisfy You", "The Real House of the Rising Sun", "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)", and "Four Strong Winds" and the versions on this album.
Reissues
In 1978, German reissue label Bear Family obtained reissue rights to the album. Instead of a straight reissue, Bear Family left off the title track, but added "Love Denied" and "Rave On", both sides of Waylon's first A&M single, and never before issued on any album. The reconfigured album, now titled "Rave On", was released in West Germany only, but available as an import in other countries. [4]
Sixteen years later, A&M in Germany reissued the 1970 album on CD as "Don't Think Twice: The A&M Sessions". However, no photographs of Waylon used, though the booklet notes were in English. In 1999, Bear Family reissued the album, as well as other songs recorded for A&M as part of the "The Journey: Destiny's Child" box set, which covered Waylon's career from 1959 to 1968.
Track listing
- "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 3:00
- "River Boy" (Fred Carter Jr.) – 2:30
- "Twelfth of Never" (Jerry Livingston, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:24
- "The Race Is On" (Don Rollins) – 2:30
- "Stepping Stone" (Smokey Stover) – 1:51
- "The Real House of the Rising Sun" (Traditional) – 3:35
- "Just to Satisfy You" (Don Bowman, Waylon Jennings) – 2:21
- "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" (Paul Campbell, Joel Newman) – 2:26
- "Unchained Melody" (Alex North, Hy Zaret) – 3:12
- "I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)" (Dylan) – 4:00
- "Four Strong Winds" (Ian Tyson) – 2:54
References
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- Waylon at JD's
- Folk-Country
- Leavin' Town
- Nashville Rebel
- Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan
- Love of the Common People
- The One and Only
- Hangin' On
- Only the Greatest
- Jewels
- Just to Satisfy You
- Waylon
- Singer of Sad Songs
- The Taker/Tulsa
- Cedartown, Georgia
- Good Hearted Woman
- Ladies Love Outlaws
- Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
- Honky Tonk Heroes
- This Time
- The Ramblin' Man
- Dreaming My Dreams
- Are You Ready for the Country
- Ol' Waylon
- I've Always Been Crazy
- What Goes Around Comes Around
- Music Man
- Black on Black
- It's Only Rock + Roll
- Waylon and Company
- Never Could Toe the Mark
- Turn the Page
- Sweet Mother Texas
- Will the Wolf Survive
- Hangin' Tough
- A Man Called Hoss
- Full Circle
- The Eagle
- Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.
- Ol' Waylon Sings Ol' Hank
- Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals & Dirt
- Waymore's Blues (Part II)
- Right for the Time
- Closing In on the Fire
- Waylon Forever
- Goin' Down Rockin': The Last Recordings
- Waylon Live
- Never Say Die: Live
- Live from Austin, TX
- Never Say Die: The Final Concert
- "Stop the World (And Let Me Off)"
- "The Chokin' Kind"
- "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line"
- "The Days of Sand and Shovels"
- "Brown Eyed Handsome Man"
- "Under Your Spell Again" with Jessi Colter
- "Good Hearted Woman"
- "Sweet Dream Woman"
- "You Can Have Her"
- "We Had It All"
- "You Ask Me To"
- "This Time"
- "I'm a Ramblin' Man"
- "Rainy Day Woman"
- "Dreaming My Dreams with You"
- "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way"
- "Bob Wills Is Still the King"
- "Can't You See"
- "Are You Ready for the Country"
- "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)"
- "I've Always Been Crazy"
- "Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out of Hand"
- "Amanda"
- "Come With Me"
- "I Ain't Living Long Like This"
- "Clyde"
- "Good Ol' Boys"
- "Shine"
- "Just to Satisfy You" with Willie Nelson
- "Women Do Know How to Carry On"
- "Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)"
- "Hold On, I'm Comin'" with Jerry Reed
- "The Conversation" with Hank Williams Jr.
- "I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up)"
- "Never Could Toe the Mark"
- "America"
- "Waltz Me to Heaven"
- "Drinkin' and Dreamin'"
- "Working Without a Net"
- "Will the Wolf Survive"
- "What You'll Do When I'm Gone"
- "The Broken Promise Land"
- "Rose in Paradise"
- "My Rough and Rowdy Days"
- "If Ole Hank Could Only See Us Now"
- "How Much Is It Worth to Live in L.A."
- "Which Way Do I Go (Now That I'm Gone)"
- "Wrong"
- "Where Corn Don't Grow"
- "The Eagle"
Waylon & Willie | |
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Other collaborations | |
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Collaboration singles | |
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- The Best of Waylon Jennings
- Don't Think Twice
- Heartaches by the Number
- Greatest Hits
- Waylon's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
- The Best of Waylon
- 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Waylon Jennings
- RCA Country Legends
- Ultimate Waylon Jennings
- 16 Biggest Hits
- Nashville Rebel
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