Shannon McNally - Waylon Sessions spo-notify-me-disabled Dave Phillips and Spooner Oldham

Dave Phillips and Spooner Oldham

a lazy float in the kiddie pool

This playfulness became a way to offset the darkness and the sadness of many of the lyrics

Elvis had just managed to turn his career around with his 1968 TV special

setting a new bar for punk's political insight and emotional impact

Shannon McNally - Waylon Sessions spo-notify-me-disabled Dave Phillips and Spooner OldhamVinyl LP pressing. 2021 release. Recorded with an all star band and featuring special guests like Jessi Colter, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Lukas Nelson, Shannon McNally's extraordinary collection, The Waylon Sessions, isn't so much a tribute to Waylon Jennings as it is a recontextualization: a nuanced, feminine rendering of a catalog long considered a bastion of hetero masculinity. That's not to say McNally has a softer, gentler take on the