Cedartown, Georgia (album)

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Cedartown, Georgia
Danny Davis Chet Atkins Ronny Light[1]
Waylon Jennings chronology
The Taker/Tulsa (1971) Cedartown, Georgia (1971) Good Hearted Woman (1972)

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Cedartown, Georgia is a studio album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1971 on RCA Nashville.

Jennings' second release of 1971 finds the singer moving further away from the

" and also appears on the album cover with him. Like most country albums during this period, Cedartown, Georgia contains songs that were recorded during numerous sessions that stretched back over periods of months and even years, depriving the album of any sense of continuity. As Michael Striessguth's laments in his book Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville, "Because RCA-Nashville failed to embrace the idea of the concept album, it happily dropped unreleased scraps from earlier sessions into those collections, spoiling any semblance of cohesion that they might have had." In his autobiography Jennings wrote, "They always needed a marketing plan...Music is just music, and people who put labels on music are those who have to merchandize it. It makes their job a lot easier. I wanted to cut my records a whole different way; I wanted to build the song in the studio, not in the control room. I wanted the dynamics to happen out there with the band."

The album peaked at #27 on the

: "The window dressing added by Davis waters down its impact and makes Jennings' job as a singer more difficult... Cedartown, Georgia feels just like what it is, a decent collection of songs and inspired performances marred by production nonsense. Indeed, a quick listen to the album and it becomes difficult to see why Davis worked with Jennings at all."

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cedartown, Georgia"	Bridge Over Troubled Water" (with Jessi Colter)	Paul Simon	3:56
7.	"It's All Over Now"	Jessi Colter	2:32
8.	"I'm Gonna Leave (While I Still Love You)"	Martha Sharp	3:05
9.	"I've Got Eyes for You"	Del Shannon, Brian Hyland	2:35
10.	"Let Me Stay Awhile"	Mickey Newbury	2:22

References

1. ^ "Waylon Jennings – Cedartown, Georgia (1971, Vinyl)". Discogs. 1971.