Top 10 Most Important Country Albums

#1 Country Album of 1977

"Ol' Waylon"

released April 1977

13 consecutive weeks at #1 on the Billboard country album chart.

Contains the #1 single "Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love)", which spent 6 consecutive weeks at the top of Billboard's country songs chart.

"Waylon and Willie" Goes Platinum

April 11th 1978

The album "Waylon and Willie" by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson is certified platinum for sales of 1 million copies.  The album released in January of 1978, spent 10 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country chart and peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The single "Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" spent 4 weeks in March at #1 on the Billboard country chart and reached only #42 on the Hot 100 in 1978.

The duo also won the Grammy in 1979 for "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals" 

Track listing

Side one[edit]

1. "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce) – 2:34
2. "The Year 2003 Minus 25" (Kris Kristofferson) – 3:04
3. "Pick Up the Tempo" (Willie Nelson) – 2:32
4. "If You Can Touch Her at All" (Lee Clayton) – 3:04
5. "Lookin' for a Feeling" (Waylon Jennings) – 2:38
6. "It's Not Supposed to Be That Way" (Nelson) – 3:20

Side two[edit]

1. "I Can Get Off on You" (Jennings, Nelson) – 2:24
2. "Don't Cuss the Fiddle" (Kristofferson) – 3:04
3. "Gold Dust Woman" (Stevie Nicks) – 4:00
4. "A Couple More Years" (Dennis Locorriere, Shel Silverstein) – 4:02
5. "The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want to Get Over You)" (Bobby Emmons, Chips Moman) – 2:08