by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
In 1995, RCA released a truncated eight-track version of 1978's Waylon & Willie as a budget-line release. Since the original album ran 11 tracks and 32 minutes, this was a slim album made slimmer -- a mere 22 minutes, now! -- and the track listing was thrown all out of order, resulting in a jumble. It's a listenable jumble, of course (which is appropriate, since the original album is a bit of a listenable jumble), but the mixed-up, shook-up order and missing songs makes this release absolutely infuriating, especially because the full-length original album -- as well as the fine 2001 Buddha reissue -- were already moderately priced! If you find this particular edition, don't touch it all -- this album is not supposed to be this way. It won't take much effort to find the full-length album, and it won't set you back much more, and unlike this rip-off resequencing, you will get off on the proper record.