The Dark Side of Fame

Conventional wisdom holds that in the era of the late '60s and early '70s Waylon Jennings was a tethered beast, shackled in the straight jacket of the Nashville Machine's conformity. But we beg to differ. Indulge us for a moment and really listen to the twenty-eight brooding, blistering sides collected here. Witness the barely controlled menace of "Don't Play the Game," the sublime quasi-psychedelia of "MacArthur Park" or the eye-gouging fuzz-tone of "Six Strings Away." This magnificent collection of pre-"outlaw" cuts proves that "conventional wisdom" never got it more wrong and that Waylon Jennings never lived far from the wrong side of the tracks. This deluxe collector's reissue is re-mastered from the original RCA Victor master tapes and presented with exclusive liner notes, photos and a rare duet with fellow maverick Lee Hazlewood.