Wanted! The Outlaws
Less successful when it's sentimental (Waylon Jennings' "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys") than when it's wry (Willie Nelson's myth-puncturing "Me and Paul"), this cash-in compilation of previously released cuts was just in time to grab the first platinum record ever awarded a country album. It's not bad, but both Jennings' contemporaneousDreaming My Dreamsand Nelson'sRed Headed Strangerare more nuanced tastes of the good-bad-but-not-evil-ol'-boy lifestyle. (Not to mention much of Tompall Glaser's ownOutlawcompilation.) This 1996 CD reissue adds nine more tracks from the era as well as a new Jennings-and-Nelson version ofSteve Earle's "Nowhere Road."--Rickey Wright