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...praise but became the bestselling album of the year. Jimmy Buffett: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (ABC). Countrified Caribbean and laid-back Southern rock blended together like a well-mixed Margarita. Waylon Jennings: Ol' Waylon (RCA). Country music's amiably gruff outlaw puts heart into honky-tonk-and Luckenbach, Texas, squarely on the map. The Phil Woods Six (RCA, 2 LPs). A master saxman and his friends hotfinger their way through familiar jazz standards and lively originals. James Taylor: JT (Columbia). Sweet Baby James shows the old homespun ease and comes up with a Handy Man delight...
...cheers, hoisting half-empty Lone Star beers toward the stage. Walker finishes his two-hour performance, then returns for an encore number, Pissin' in the Wind. By now the audience is standing on chairs, whooping, waving Stetsons and screaming for more. The scene is good-time Texas honky-tonk anarchy. It is Saturday night at the Austin Opry House...
Nelson, 44, is a survivor of the Nashville Country & Western mill who has become a near deity to fans of his gentle country rock. He broke into the honky-tonk circuit 20-odd years ago, playing broken-bottle clubs like the County Dump and the Bloody Bucket outside Fort Worth, where chicken wire protected the performers from airborne bottles. In 1960 he moved to Nashville and spent the next twelve years writing hits for other performers: Crazy for Patsy Cline, Hello Walls for Faron Young and standards like Funny How Time Slips Away...
...followers and its longhair fans. As a singer, he is a careful stylist who knows about the niceties of phrasing and admires Frank Sinatra. When Willie sings his songs of troubled romance or lonely Bloody Mary mornings, his voice has none of the beery sentimentality found in many honky-tonk laments. "What we do is fairly simple," he says with genuine modesty. "If people like it, they really like it and they'll come back again...
DIED. Ethel Waters, 80, spellbinding black honky-tonk singer who became a dramatic star on Broadway; of heart disease; in Chatsworth, Calif. Born out of wedlock in abject poverty and farmed out to a succession of relatives, Waters was working as a chambermaid for $3.50 a week when she won first prize at an amateur night. She went on to sing what she later called "ungodly raw" songs in Southern black nightclubs. A decade later she started performing for white folks, and was already known as "Queen of the Blues" when Irving Berlin heard her at Harlem's Cotton...