Why is "Dreaming My Dreams With You" the best Waylon Jennings song and what else is like it

[sus]

Roy Orbison, right? Maybe some Dylan, Buddy Holly, Dion?

 

[sus]

Deep voices, slide guitars, soft swells, crooning. Drunk in love and heartbreak at some honky tonk, sad but beautiful.

 

[DannyL]

So you're talking super-mellow country right? With something added by the production?

This is the first thing that comes to mind:

 

[DannyL]

Terry Melcher might also fit the bill:

It's liked a totally coked out vision of country, thinking about "the good old days" crying into your bourbon in your mansion in Beverley Hills
Look at that fucking suit.

 

[sus]

So you're talking super-mellow country right? With something added by the production?

This is the first thing that comes to mind:

Oh yeah this is lovely.

The Terry Melcher doesn't quite do it for me, I think the voice isn't rich and deep enough, you know? He's prepubescent you're waiting for it to drop

 

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[sus]

This is nice but it doesn't have that pathos of Dreaming My Dreams does it

 

[WashYourHands]

 

[sus]

The voice is right but you could sooner imagine making banana pancakes and dancing in the kitchen to it than you would drunkenly sob into a friend's shoulder

 

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both those albums are great if you havent listened passed those two songs and probably what your looking for

 

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[sus]

OMG, YES, this is the one right before he died, right? He's a mess it's beautiful

 

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OMG, YES, this is the one right before he died, right? He's a mess it's beautiful

Ya, just a coupple months before. All the coke cans on the piano... incredibley impressive how his singing quality never dipped at all despite always on the verge of a pill induced/diabetic coma

 

[the ig]