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It's Only Rock & Roll (Waylon Jennings album)
''It's Only Rock & Roll'' is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1983.
==Recording==
Jennings, who had been a mainstay on at the top of the country charts for most of the previous decade, began a commercial slide with ''It's Only Rock & Roll''. The previous two years had been difficult for the singer, having nearly filed for bankruptcy after going broke and suffering from a seven-year addiction to cocaine, and the fatigue is evident on ''It's Only Rock & Roll''; it relies heavily on past glories. As if out of ideas, the singer includes a meandering medley of his biggest hits (running nearly six minutes) to end the album. In addition, he revisits his 1967 #12 hit single "Mental Revenge." The nostalgic theme is also apparent on the comical "Living Legends (A Dyin' Breed)," a narration that pokes fun at several of Waylon's peers, including Charlie Daniels, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Dolly Parton, Johnny Paycheck, and David Allan Coe. Tellingly, Jennings confesses in the song, "To tell you the truth, I ain't been feeling real hot lately myself." In the audio version of his autobiography ''Waylon'', the singer remembered, "It got to where my music started to show the strain. I was doin' bad records and missing shows due to laryngitis, not picking up the guitar unless I was gettin' paid, and in general just not caring."
Despite the state of Jennings' personal life at the time, the tone of ''It's Only Rock & Roll'' is predominately upbeat. The LP, which Jennings produced with Randy Scruggs, did produce on #1 hit: a cover of Little Richard's rock and roll classic "Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)," his twelfth #1 since 1974. Jennings would not top the singles chart again until 1987. The single "Breakin' Down" also made the Top 10. Jennings contributed two songs for the LP: "Let Her Do the Walking," which he wrote himself, and the reflective "No Middle Ground," which he composed with Gary Scruggs. Songwriter Rodney Crowell, who had written Jennings' #1 song "I Ain't Living Long Like This" and had become one of the singer's favorite writers, has two songwriting credits, including the title track (which is reminiscent in theme and structure to the Rolling Stones song of the same name) and the ballad "Angel Eyes," which Waylon may have recorded as a tribute to his young son Shooter. Jennings' wife Jessi Colter, Marcia Beverly, and Jerry Gropp provide harmony vocals on the LP.
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