Posted by John Metzger on 01/05/07 02:40

DVD Review - Waylon Jennings - Nashville Rebel

The recently released, four-disc, 92-track box set Nashville Rebel
provided a comprehensive overview of Waylon Jennings' career. Although
it isn't nearly as essential, the separately issued but similarly titled
DVD is an interesting addendum to the project. All of the material on
the 20-track video was recorded during a 14-year stretch of time that
spanned from 1970 until 1984, and it therefore covers the crucial period
when Jennings was transformed from a Nashville hit-maker to a country
renegade to a superstar. Fittingly, the program begins in 1970 with a
snippet from the Johnny Cash Show, and after a brief reminiscence with
Cash regarding the apartment that they once had shared, a clean-cut
Jennings took the stage to lead his band through Only Daddy That'll Walk
the Line. The performance itself was tentative and unremarkable. Yet,
within the context of Nashville Rebel, it effectively sets up everything
that follows.

This is an excerpt. To read the complete review, please visit:

http://www.musicbox-online.com/filmreviews-2007/waylonjennings-nashvillerebel.html

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