"This Time" was Waylon Jenning's first ever number one hit. He had been recording for seventeen years before finally getting to number one.

For years no one could figure out what to do with Waylon's style. Chet Atkins and RCA tried to mold him into the Nashville Sound, but it just wasn't working. He had moderate success with the sound, but it wasn't until he broke out of the mold and defied Nashville's staunch ways of making music that he finally acheived his suppressed potential.

Jennings' RCA contract expired in 1972 and he was able to renegotiate the contract allowing him more creative freedom. From that point on, he was instrumental in the Outlaw movement that took place in the 1970's. Waylon and long-time friend, Willie Nelson both had the same problems with Nashville - their music wasn't conductive to the Nashville Sound. So, with Waylon's new freedom, a new era in country music was born.

The first thing Waylon did was start his own production company which he named WGJ (Waylon Goddamn Jennings) Productions. Per his new contract, Waylon now had the right to choose his own songs, producers and session players. Jennings and Nelson teamed up for the production of "This Time."

Another trend was broken with the recording of "This Time." Waylon rebelled against the long standing policy with RCA that their artists must record only in RCA Studios and he recorded the song at a studio owned by his friend, Tompall Glaser. He turned the finished song into RCA via WGJ Productions, thus creating the opening needed for independent studios to begin dominating the Nashville recording scene.

"This Time" was just the first of a string of hugely successful albums for Jennings. He was a pioneer of the 70's and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October, 2001.