Jennings,Waylon - When The Balladeer Met The Dukes - Vinyl Lp - RSD 2026

At the turn of the 1980's, a television show was developed about a family of moonshine runners and their adventures with the law called the Dukes of Hazzard. The show was based on an obscure 70's film called 'Moonrunners', and would go on to be a major national success, making a distinct mark on popular culture in the United States in the 80's.

The narrative character of 'the Balladeer' went to Waylon Jennings. And the job of scoring the show went to Waylon and his band, The Waylors. After the first season though, the networks went with a more clean cut music crew, leaving the Waylor's behind in the continuing saga of the Duke family.

During the process of archiving and unearthing Waylon's lost studio recordings, his son Shooter found the original recordings of lines of the Balladeer for the first two episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard, complete with bloopers and out-takes. Shooter also found the original recordings for the soundtrack to first season of the Dukes, produced by Richie Albright, and featuring Waylon and his smoking backing band.

"The Balladeer meets the Dukes of Hazzard" consists of:

Side A: The full recording of Waylon's first session doing the voice-overs for the Dukes of Hazzard, complete with all the mistakes and bloopers, played over the music for season one of The Dukes of Hazzard. (-16:00)

Side B: The instrumental version of the music from the first season of The Dukes of Hazzard. (-16:00)

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