Wanted! The Outlaws (1976-1996 20Th Anniversary)

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 1996)
• Original Release Date: April 30, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Label: Sony Legacy
• Run Time: 61 minutes

Editorial Reviews Reissue of the mid-’70s outlaw country classic featuring Willie Nelson, WaylonJennings, Jessi Colter and Tompall Glaser, with original artwork, liner notes(from Chet Flippo) and nine “lost” tracks! Less successful when it’s sentimental (Waylon Jennings’ “My Heroes Have AlwaysBeen Cowboys”) than when it’s wry (Willie Nelson’s myth-puncturing “Me andPaul”), this cash-in compilation of previously released cuts was just in timeto grab the first platinum record ever awarded a country album. It’s not bad,but both Jennings’ contemporaneous _Dreaming My Dreams_ and Nelson’s _RedHeaded Stranger_ are more nuanced tastes of the good-bad-but-not-evil-ol’-boylifestyle. (Not to mention much of Tompall Glaser’s own _Outlaw_ compilation.)This 1996 CD reissue adds nine more tracks from the era as well as a newJennings-and-Nelson version of Steve Earle’s “Nowhere Road.” _–Rickey Wright_