Jewels (Waylon Jennings album)

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1968 studio album by Waylon Jennings

Jewels

Studio album by

Waylon Jennings

Released| December 1968
Genre| Country
Label| RCA Victor
Producer| Chet Atkins
Waylon Jennings chronology
| Only the Greatest
(1968)  | Jewels
(1968)  | Just to Satisfy You
(1969)

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Jewels is a studio album by American country music singer and songwriter Waylon Jennings, released in 1968 on RCA Victor.

## Background

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Jennings, who had enjoyed his biggest hit yet with the #2 hit country single "Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line" in 1968, followed it with the Top 5 hit "Yours Love," which was written by Harlan Howard and included on Jewels, Waylon's ninth LP for RCA. The album is also significant for featuring two songs composed by Merle Haggard, who was recording for Capitol with producer Ken Nelson in Los Angeles and enjoying a degree of musical autonomy that Jennings was pining for in Nashville. In his 2008 book Willie Nelson, author Joe Nick Patoski observes that "the more records Waylon made and the more he understood how the system worked, the less he appreciated what RCA thought was best for him. As his record sales increased, his complaints grew louder. The Nashville Sound was cramping his style."

The album also includes Mel Tillis' "Mental Revenge," which hit #12 for Jennings in 1967.

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "New York City, RFD"| Larry Collins, Alice Joy|
2.| "Today I Started Loving You Again"| Merle Haggard, Bonnie Owens|
3.| "Folsom Prison Blues"| Johnny Cash|
4.| "If You Were Mine to Lose"| Mickey Jaco|
5.| "See You Around (On Your Way Down)"| Harlan Howard|
6.| "Six Strings Away"| Waylon Jennings|
7.| "Yours Love"| Harlan Howard|
8.| "How Much Rain Can One Man Stand"| Dallas Frazier|
9.| "Mental Revenge"| Mel Tillis|
10.| "I'm Doing This for You"| Hank Cochran|
11.| "You Love the Ground I Walk On"| Harlan Howard, Don McHan|
12.| "My Ramona"| Merle Haggard|

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Waylon Jennings

* Albums
* Singles

Studio albums|

* 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

Live albums|

* Waylon Live
* Never Say Die: Live
* Live from Austin, TX
* Never Say Die: The Final Concert

Notable singles|

* "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"

Collaborations|

Waylon & Willie

* Albums: Waylon & Willie
* WWII
* Take It to the Limit
* Clean Shirt

* Singles:"The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)"
* "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
* "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
* "Take It to the Limit"

Other collaborations

* Country-Folk with The Kimberlys
* Leather and Lace with Jessi Colter
* Heroes with Johnny Cash
* Old 97's & Waylon Jennings with Old 97's

Collaboration singles

* "MacArthur Park" with The Kimberlys
* "Suspicious Minds" with Jessi Colter
* "There Ain't No Good Chain Gang" with Johnny Cash
* "The Wild Side of Life/It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" with Jessi Colter
* "Leave Them Boys Alone" with Hank Williams Jr. and Ernest Tubb
* "Somewhere Between Ragged and Right" with John Anderson

Compilations|

* 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

Related|

* The Waylors/Waymore's Outlaws
* Outlaw country
* Wanted! The Outlaws
* "We Are the World"
* The Highwaymen
* Old Dogs
* Jessi Colter
* Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings
* Buddy Holly
* The Day the Music Died

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