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This honesty ranges from Waylon Jennings' song of adultery in This Time ("I won't allow the things you used to do!/ You'll have to toe the mark and walk the line") to Tammy Wynette's look at one of its sometime results in DIVORCE...
...TICKET-TAKERS at the Performance Center, passing around a lot of green paper the other night at the Waylon Jennings concert, were imitating and making fun of the country nasal twang wafting through the door. They piped in folk-rock music between the sets. Inside, in the midst of longhairs, a middle-aged housewife from Ayre rocked back and forth to "Me and Bobby McGee" and a man in his sixties danced to "Six Days on the Road." Cambridge has never been much for country and western music--and this is rare for a college town. But this week...
When the bass and drum strike up every one of Waylon Jennings's songs, there's a plodding anticapatory quality about it, a waiting without suspense. This is a familiar theme in country music, connected to country life--the mood is like sitting on the porch in summer whittling and watching the cars go by. It's hard-driving and strong but with a controlled drawl, so that it sounds redundant at first, until the body of the song starts and Jennings and his harp players weave a bluesy exchange through the sameness. Joining them is a superb pedal steel...
There were bound to be other reactions. Radio stations in the northeast began playing the song. Indeed, it was one of the few true country and western records ever to get non-country air play (Waylon Jennings's "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" and "Harper Valley P.T.A." were more "pop" than country.) "Okie" caught on with the "other" audience. The reasons, as one might expect, were perverse...
...magazine's formula−still not firmly se−is a mix of interviews with prominent musicians and takeouts on their lifestyles. There are personality pieces on country stars like Tammy Wynette and Waylon Jennings, photo takeouts on the mammoth cross-country buses converted into rolling homes by many performers, reviews of films and books that might interest country-music enthusiasts, and of course notices of new country records...