If there is a single album nexus point between what Waylons early career was like, and what his Imperial King of Country era was like, its The Taker/Tulsa: The one album from his pre-outlaw period that stands above the rest, a record that would help break an outsider songwriter to the Nashville mainstream, prove Waylon had instincts that couldnt be taught and was maybe onto something that would flower into all his commercial success later on.