What Goes Around Comes Around
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| Studio album by Waylon Jennings | ||||
| Released | November 1979 | |||
| Studio | American Studios, Nashville | |||
| Genre | Country, outlaw country | |||
| Length | 32:46 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Waylon Jennings, Richie Albright | |||
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What Goes Around Comes Around is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1979.
By 1979, Jennings was on the tail end a hot streak that had made him one of the biggest superstars in country music. He had scored twelve Top 10 country hits since 1973 (including six chart toppers) and had recorded 4 straight #1 country albums, with 1977's Ol' Waylon also hitting #15 on the pop charts. Along with fellow outlaw Willie Nelson, he was at the forefront of what was being referred to as outlaw country, a musical movement rooted in a rock and roll attitude and musical freedom. Jennings had also become a big box office draw and in-demand recording artist; in 1979, he sang with Nelson and country legend Ernest Tubb on "You Really Lose Your Mind" for Tubb's The Legend and the Legacy album and also appeared on his friend George Jones' duet album My Very Special Guests. Unfortunately, Jennings enormous commercial success ran parallel with a crippling cocaine addiction that was draining his resources. In his autobiography, he admitted to spending as much as $20,000 each time he scored, or about $1,500 a day. A 1977 drug bust had rattled him but he continued using, and in 1980 he would discover that he was broke.
Released when the outlaw country movement was already visibly past its prime, What Goes Around Comes Around was Jennings' first album since 1975 not to reach #1 on the Billboard country albums chart, peaking at #2. It remained at #2 for 14 weeks and would have likely topped the charts had it not been for the crossover success of Kenny Rogers' Kenny. "I Ain't Living Long Like This", a song written by Rodney Crowell, reached the top of the country charts and played off Jennings' 1977 drug bust for cocaine possession, with the singer recalling in the audio version of his autobiography Waylon:
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