If you don't have any Waylon Jennings albums and ["Honky Tonk Heroes"] is the only one you can find, by all means get it and get to know that voice. If a sufficient number of people do that, maybe we can pressure him into putting some real thought into producing these things. Not to get over-serious about it, but Jennings is one of the contemporary performers most likely to get country music off the dime it's been on for close to forty years.

Noel Coppage, "Popular Discs and Tapes: 'Honky Tonk Heroes'," in Stereo Review (copyright © 1974 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company), Vol. 32, No. 2, February, 1974, p. 90.