Greatest Hits (Waylon Jennings album)

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Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits cover
Greatest hits by Waylon Jennings
Released April 1979
Genre Country
Outlaw country
Label RCA Victor
Producer(s) Waylon Jennings
Ritchie Albright
Chet Atkins
Jack Clement
Tompall Glaser
Ken Mansfield
Chips Moman
Ray Pennington
Professional reviews
Waylon Jennings chronology
I've Always Been Crazy
(1978)
Greatest Hits
(1979)
What Goes Around Comes Around
(1979)


Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Waylon Jennings, released in 1979 on RCA Victor. It documents Jennings' outlaw country years for RCA and includes several of his most well-known signature songs, the most recent of which had been the title track of I've Always Been Crazy, released the year before. Not counting the Mackintosh & T.J. soundtrack album and the White Mansions concept album, Greatest Hits became Jennings' eighth consecutive release to reach #1 on the charts; it was also one of his last chart-topping records, with What Goes Around Comes Around, released that same year, peaking at #2.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" (Young) – 3:38
  2. "I've Always Been Crazy" (Jennings) – 4:11
  3. "Honky Tonk Heroes" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 3:27
  4. "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)" (Emmons, Moman) – 3:19
  5. "I'm a Ramblin' Man" (Pennington) – 2:46
  6. "Amanda" (McDill) – 2:56
  7. "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys" (Bruce, Bruce) – 2:32 (with Willie Nelson)
  8. "A Good Hearted Woman" (Jennings, Nelson) – 2:59
  9. "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way" (Jennings) – 2:55