When listening to Waylon Jennings' "Waymore's Blues," did it ever bother you that it fades rather quickly despite him saying, "one more?" Well, there is an explanation to the sudden exit.
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Waylon Jennings explained the fight that broke out in the studio while recording his classic "Waymore's Blues" in his 1996 autobiography, Waylon: An Autobiography. The argument almost cost the 1975 Dreaming My Dreams album.
"Jack [Clement] and I had a little misunderstanding over 'Waymore's Blues,' and it brought the album to a halt," he began. "Jack got to drinking, and I was high."
While Jennings was in the studio, "a bunch" of people were in the control room, and they were driving him nuts. "Jesse and Sharon were talking real loud," he explained. "it sounded like a bunch of turkeys gobbling."
To his credit, Clement was trying to "clear them out," but he apparently didn't do a very good job, as Jennings couldn't hear him from the studio. All he could hear was the distracting chatter.
"I was trying to pick and sing and concentrate on the music, and it was like a circus in there."
Clement was, however, the final straw. "Jack started hitting the talkback button toward the end of the take. He was driving me crazy, clicking it on and off, and finally I just put my guitar down and said, 'Everybody go home, it's all over.'"
Waylon Jennings Studio Exit Almost Cost His Album
Jack asserted that only producers stop sessions, not the artists.
"'Not this time, Jack.' I was livid."
Jennings ended the session there and cancelled the session for the next day.
However, Jack got back in touch with Jennings after about two weeks and invited Jennings and his wife to dinner.
There, he asked if they were finally going back to work on that album.
Jennings replied, "This is going to sound awful funny coming from me, Jack, but you have to straighten up. There ain't but room for one crazy person in there. One wild man. And that's me."
Unfortunately, they never got a better take on "Waymore's Blues," which is why it "fades so quickly" at the end.
