Albums · Skopia

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5 records

Lonesome On'ry and Mean

1973

Jennings had just torn up his contract and renegotiated it, winning the right to record his own way. You can hear him testing that.

★ 3.6

1976

RCA put it together from recordings already sitting in its vaults, and it became the first country album to sell a million copies.

★ 4.2

1973

Nelson's house had burned down and he had moved to Austin. He wrote the title song on the wrapper of a sanitary napkin.

★ 4.3

1973

Jennings won the right to use his own road band instead of Nashville session men, and gave nine of the ten songs to one unknown writer.

★ 5.0

1975

Columbia thought the tapes were demos because it cost twenty thousand dollars and had almost nothing on it but guitar and voice.

★ 7.5