Cedartown, Georgia (album)
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Cedartown, Georgia | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | August 1971 | |||
Recorded | 1968 - 1971 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 28:53 | |||
Label | RCA Nashville | |||
Producer | ||||
Waylon Jennings chronology | ||||
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Cedartown, Georgia is a studio album by American country music artist Waylon Jennings, released in 1971 on RCA Nashville.
Background
Jennings' second release of 1971 finds the singer moving further away from the
Critical reception
The album peaked at #27 on the Billboard country albums chart, his fourth LP in a row that failed to crack the Top 10. At the time of its release, however, the LP got an unexpected rave from Rolling Stone, which enthused, "It's this album that Waylon goes after everybody (including your mother) and intends to bring everybody over to his side. It's all Dynamite stuff...Word is that if Waylon Jennings isn't already a country superstar, he soon will be." Thom Jurek of AllMusic praises Jennings' performances but disparages the production of Danny Davis: "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 | |
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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 |