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''Waylon at JD's'' is the debut studio album by American singer
Waylon Jennings Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 – February 13, 2002) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He is considered one of the pioneers of the Outlaw country, outlaw movement in country music. Jennings started playing ...
. Though listed in several sources as a live recording, it is in fact a studio album, recorded at Arizona Recorders in Phoenix on December 4, 1964. 2000's ''The Restless Kid: Live At JD's'' (
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) is a genuine JD's era live recording.


Background

In 1961, Jennings and his band began playing a club called J.D.'s in
Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale is a city in eastern Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and is part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. Named Scottsdale in 1894 after its founder Winfield Scott (chaplain), Winfield Scott, a retired Chaplain Corps (United States ...
, owned by J.D. Musil. Jennings' electric repertoire, which included country, rock and roll, and folk music, made him a local star as he gained a loyal fan base throughout Arizona. "It's a thing called payin' your dues," the singer explained in the authorised video biography ''Renegade Outlaw Legend'', "but while you're payin' your dues you're learnin' your craft, you're learnin' your trade. You're learnin' what you're gonna do." In his autobiography ''Waylon'' he elaborates, "I developed my whole style of performing in the honky-tonks...I'd get bored, and start changing the tunes, moving the rhythms around, improvising the phrasing, stretching my boundaries. Putting the music out and having it come back....When I learned how to do that, I never forgot it." Intrigued by the local buzz surrounding Jennings in Phoenix at the time,
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drove out to JD's to "see what all the fuss was about" and later recalled, "Didn't take more than one song to convince me: this son of a bitch was going places." Early in his run at the club, Jennings hired his long-time drummer Richie Albright. Released to capitalize on Jennings' popularity and co-produced by Jennings and Musil's son and club manager, James D. "Jim" Musil,''Special Tribute Show to Arizona 60′s Record producer, Jim Musil!'' radiofreephoenix.com, April 10, 2013
/ref> ''Waylon at JD's'' was sold only at the Phoenix nightclub. When it sold out quickly so a new batch of albums was pressed. Those sold out as well. In 1969,
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(now part of
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) purchased the rights to the album from Musil, and reissued the album in an abridged form as ''Waylon Jennings'' on its Vocalion label. The songs from this album have been issued countless times on low-budget, unauthorized CDs. To date, there are only three truly authorized reissues of the "JD's" album: 1995's ''Clovis to Phoenix'' (Zu-Zazz/Bear Family), 1999's ''The Journey: Destiny's Child'' (Bear Family) and 2002's ''Phase One: The Early Years 1959-1964'' (Hip-O/Universal).


Track listing

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Personnel

*Waylon Jennings – lead vocals, lead guitar *Jerry Gropp – rhythm guitar, vocals *Paul Foster – bass guitar, vocals *Richie Albright – drums ;Technical *Jim Musil – producer, arrangements *Jack Miller – engineer


References

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