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...rocking, love-gone-wrong songs turn out right on a tasteful album that not only earned critical 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...
...Waylon and Willie and the boys...
...heart of Texas music beats in the capital city, its soul is in Luckenbach, a sleepy hamlet 65 miles away. After 128 years of near total obscurity, the three-family town was put on the map abruptly by Waylon Jennings' hit recording. Luckenbach, Texas sped to the top of the country-music charts, and the album it came from, Ol' Waylon, became Jennings' fourth gold LP within a year...
...matter that ol' Waylon and the song's two writers had never been to Luckenbach. The tune captured the essence of Texas' country music-a return to the basics. "It's a symbol, really, of something that people are retreatin' to," says Nelson, easily the most visible member of Austin's musical colony...
Last year four Nelson singles made the Top Ten on the country charts. His new album, To Lefty From Willie, a tribute to the late Texas singer-songwriter Lefty Frizzell, stood at No. 5 last week-one notch behind Ol' Waylon. Meanwhile, Nelson's annual Fourth of July picnics have become mini-Woodstock festivals, drawing crowds...