'Are You Ready for the Country' for my Dad

In honor of my dad on Fathers Day I am playing my favorite Waylon Jennings album at home, Are You Ready for the Country.

My dad lived a rebellious early life remeniscent of the Nashville Outlaws. Over those years he collected a great volume of LP's from numerous Fame Recordings and other Muscle Shoals greats, Creedance, Skynyrd, and the likes. Little Feat. Allman Brothers. Etc. Early on in my life, he had a conversion experience that inspired him to put aside his rebellious ways, and be the man his family needed. One casualty of this good transformation, though, was his LP collection as he needed to part with things of old. All except for his Waylon, Willie, and Cash collection. Still to this day when I play my favorite oldies around him, I constantly hear, 'I had that album.'

My brothers and I would blare this album as young teens almost every morning, and it set the trajectory of my musical inclinations. So heres to my recovering outlaw father. The greatest man I'll ever know. I am Blessed especially this year to still have him in my life. Happy Father's day to all you other outlaws trying to raise little cowboys.