Leaving Town
RCA Victor LSP-3620, October 1966
Original Liner Notes
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Exciting, Fresh, Talented
If Webster’s Dictionary would carry a definition of Waylon Jennings, it would probably read:
Way-lon / Wā’-lōn / n 1. exciting, fresh, talented (and many more overused words).
However, Webster’s is not up-to-date because my friend, Waylon Jennings, isn’t listed. So let’s forget
about being so finicky over Webster’s accuracy and move on to something everybody can understand. That’s
gossip among entertainers. It is impossible to have a group of entertainers together more than two
minutes before someone says, “Hey, ain’t that Waylon great?” Then someone says, “Yeah, sumpin’ else!”
And another, “Out of sight!”
Waylon Jennings is part of the new movement in American music, which is sometimes called the “modern
country sound.” Probably a better label would be “folk-country,” if you want to give it a name. I
could call it many great names but I think the most appropriate is “Waylon Jennings”--because he has
brought an element of greatness to folk-country music.
--Bobby Bare
Editor’s note: Bobby Bare and Waylon Jennings are contemporaries in today’s music scene. Bobby
(himself a first-magnitude RCA Victor artist) is also a leading exponent of folk-country music.
His notes about Waylon Jennings reflect the admiration Waylon’s fans at home and abroad have for
him.
