Not that this is a bad record, but it does show signs that he was relying a little too much on polish and that his ear for material is slightly off...It's an album that, once again, doesn't quite add up to the sound of its parts, and in retrospect, those parts do seem to point toward his commercial and artistic collapse a few years away, but even with these flaws, Music Man is a pretty entertaining latter-day Waylon album."
This record isn't perfect, but it shows that he was too focused on polish and had trouble selecting good material. It's an album that doesn't quite work as a whole, but looking back, the individual tracks seem to foreshadow his future struggles in both business and art. However, even with these flaws, Music Man is still a decent Waylon record.