Super Hits is a budget-priced ten-track collection that contains a selection of Willie Nelson's greatest hits ("On the Road Again," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "Pancho...
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For this record, RCA raided their vaults for vintage tracks of Nelson doing favorites made hits by other artists. Included are songs by his former boss, Ray Price ("Don't...
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Nelson returns again to his standards--"Night Life," "Crazy," "Funny How Time Slips Away"--and other people's--Kern/Hammerstein's "All The Things You Are," Kahal/Fain's...
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The 20 songs on this set were recorded between 1965 and 1971, long before Willie Nelson's commercial breakthrough with "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain." All of the songs were...
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Nelson's first album for Liberty (later Capitol) Records features his first significant solo hit ("Touch Me") as well as some of his classics that others took up the charts...
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Originally released via the Home Shopping Network and later issued through Rhino, A Classic & Unreleased Collection is a three-disc box set that, given its origins, could...
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After recordings standards, gospel records and others things, this was Nelson's first album of straight country in years. There's no original tunes, but there are some new...
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Willie Nelson's Just One Love is, for the most part, a collection of country standards. There are hard songs by the likes of Hank Williams (a wonderful "Cold Cold Heart"),...
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Hardly the best of the Waylon/Willie collaborations, this Chips Moman-produced album finds them covering songs like the Eagles' "Take It To The Limit," Simon & Garfunkel's...
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Willie Nelson was making so many records in the mid-'80s that it was easy for one to get lost in the shuffle, and that's what happened to this album. Tri-Star, the company...
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One for the Road, Willie Nelson's duet record with fellow American music maverick Leon Russell, followed months after his freewheeling, jam-heavy double album Willie and...
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MCA Special Products' The Best of Gospel contains five cuts apiece from Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Both of the vocalists recorded this material later in their careers,...
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Nelson, once a member of Price's Cherokee Cowboys, reunites with his old boss for an album of Texas shuffles like "Faded Love," "Deep Water" and "Don't You Ever Get Tired...
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One of the first in a series of duet albums with country legends that Willie Nelson undertook during a period of seemingly uncontrolled output at Columbia, this remains one...
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The follow-up to Red Headed Stranger, The Sound In Your Mind shows just how much music Nelson had absorbed during his life. The songs range from "Amazing Grace" to Lefty...
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Red Headed Stranger propelled Willie Nelson to stardom, finally giving him a smash hit, yet its spare arrangements and hushed intimacy were a bit of an anomaly, both in his...
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Released in late 1976, at the height of Willie mania, The Troublemaker is Willie Nelson's first all-gospel album, but country gospel in his hands doesn't sound like...
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Not only a fine compilation, it was a gutsy move. Nelson's 1962-1964 sessions for Liberty Records, the first label to sign him as an artist, have never been held in high...
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To Lefty From Willie is an affectionate and thoroughly enjoyable salute to Lefty Frizzell, featuring stellar versions of a number of Lefty's best-known songs -- including...
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Nelson's second Western concept album, this one about a maiden named Rose who falls in love with two gunslingers, isn't as musically compelling asRed Headed Stranger, but...
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After years of singing standards, putting out duet albums, starring in movies, appearing in soundtracks, and taking other detours, Willie Nelson finally returned with an...
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More standards, this time with Chips Moman, who uses fuller arrangements (background singers, synthesizers) than either Jones or Nelson would on songs "Some Enchanted...
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Nelson makes one of his occasional dips into the Great American Songbook for What a Wonderful World, which features his renditions of "Moon River," "Twilight Time," and...
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Recorded and released to help settle a massive tax debt, this two-volume set turned out to be an essential Nelson album, featuring two dozen of Nelson's best tunes with...
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Commonly known as The IRS Tapes because it was made to help pay for Willie Nelson's IRS debts, Who'll Buy My Memories is a double-disc, 25-track collection of demos,...
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The spirit of Nelson's freewheeling live performances, which can turn on a dime and are as likely to include gospel tunes ("Amazing Grace," "Will The Circle Be Unbroken") as...
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Country music fans of course have lots of things to be thankful to Willie Nelson for. One area that is often overlooked when the praises begin rolling out are some of his...
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In addition to "Nothing I Can Do About It Now," Nelson's final number one single, A Horse Called Music includes the minor hit "The Highway." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music...
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Nelson pretty much had disappeared from the country charts when he recorded this star-studded album with producer Don Was. Not that doing songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and...
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If ever there were doubts about the breadth and depth of Willie Nelson's ambitions and talents, Across the Borderline should put them to rest. Nelson surveys roughly two...
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All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 covers Nelson's mid-to-late-'60s tenure on RCA; among the selections are "The Party's Over," "Blackjack County Chain," "San Antonio" and...
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The title track to this triple-platinum album is arguably Nelson's best-known hit, and a pretty good musical indicator for the rest of the album. Producer Chips Moman has...
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Willie Nelson's smooth interpretation of "Always on My Mind" became an unexpected pop crossover hit, climbing into the Top 10 and spending two weeks at the top of the...
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Angel Eyes boasts only eight songs and is billed as "featuring the guitar of Jackie King." By this time, Willie seemed to be releasing an album every three months or so, and...
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Willie Nelson didn't spend much time at Liberty Records, but he did record some of his best early material for the label, including his takes on "Funny How Time Slips Away,"...
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The cover suggests Nelson as Harley-Davidson biker, but the album shows his tender side with heartbreak ballads like "You Decide" and "This Is How Without You Goes." Even...
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A typically rambling Nelson album that ranges from Steve Goodman's slice-of-Americana train song "City Of New Orleans" to "Wind Beneath My Wings"(!) to the country-soul...
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The Steve Goodman-penned title cut of City of New Orleans was Nelson's umpteenth number one hit; other highlights include his renditions of "Please Come to Boston" and "Wind...
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This budget album brings together (again) some of his classic songs that have been hits for others over the years. (Which makes the inclusion of "Streets of Laredo" seem all...
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This album relates the dissolution of a marriage from the vantage points of both the woman ("Washing The Dishes," "Pretend I Never Happened") and the man ("I Still Can't...
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If Shotgun Willie played a bit like a concept album, Phases and Stages was a full-blown one, tracing the dissolution of a marriage and devoting one side to the wife's...
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This is an appropriate collection, since Nelson has recorded more duets with more fellow performers than any other country singer in history. This runs the gamut, from...
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A separate building such as a quonset hut would have to be built to accomodate all the releases this lovable country artist pumped out during the '80s. Some of his records...
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Another album of standards, Moonlight Becomes You consists largely of tunes like "Sentimental Journey" and "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)," though Nelson wrote...
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It's an indication of how out of whack the country boom has gotten at major labels when a proven giant like Willie Nelson must cut tremendous records for tiny independents....
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Nite Life: Greatest Hits and Rare Tracks collects material Willie Nelson wrote and recorded while he was trying to launch a career as a professional songwriter during the...
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Nelson tackles the Neil Young classic "Heart of Gold" on Partners, which also includes his hit "Partners After All." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music...
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"Pretty Paper," which is only arguably a Christmas tune, is a pretty depressing holiday vignette and lends a hint of melancholy to the rest of the subdued arrangements by...
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Artists almost always release Christmas albums when they have a comfortable level of sales, and when Willie Nelson was at a popular peak during the late '70s, he chose to...
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Nelson's turn tale of a turn-of-the-century renegade preacher drew more on the music of the old West than anything going on in the rather drab country scene of the mid-'70s,...
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Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger perhaps is the strangest blockbuster country produced, a concept album about a preacher on the run after murdering his departed wife and...
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Nelson's third concept album (Red Headed Stranger) was more commercially successful than the second (Phases & Stages) and really put him spotlight as an artist with his...
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Nelson was Atlantic's first country artist when he signed to the label in 1972, but they couldn't have expected much from this commercially, considering the musicians...
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Transferring his allegiance to Atlantic (where he would record two remarkable albums that would get him kicked off the label), Willie Nelson offered his finest record to...
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Depending on your assessment of Nelson's singing abilities, this may be only a mild improvement over Kristofferson's originals, but the quality of the material is...
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A return to country-rock after the smash success of Stardust the year before, this is one of Willie Nelson's best albums. Admittedly, it doesn't withstand comparisons to...
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Check that title out -- Sings 28 Great Songs doesn't necessarily mean that these are 28 of Willie's greatest songs, or even that he wrote the songs themselves. And, indeed,...
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Nelson has returned to the standards concept again and again, this time with fellow Texas musicians like Paul Buskirk and fiddler Johnny Gimble, who accompany him on "Mona...
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow is a collection of more '40s pop standards, as arranged by Willie Nelson. While it isn't quite a continuation of what he did on Stardust and...
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Nearly as radical a musical move as Red Headed Stranger had been three years before, Stardust found Willie Nelson collaborating with producer/organist Booker T. Jones on...
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At the height of outlaw country, Willie Nelson pulled off perhaps the riskiest move of the entire bunch. He set aside originals, country, and folk and recorded Stardust, a...
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This record was put together and released by RCA to cash in on his success on another label. Since all these songs have been released elsewhere, there is nothing to...
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The chart-topping "Living in the Promiseland" and "I'm Trying Not to Forget You" are two of the selections featured on The Promiseland. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music...
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Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) was released in the fall of 1981, summarizing a remarkable seven-year stretch of extraordinary success that began when the iconoclastic...
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Nelson and Merle Haggard alternate tracks on this oddly conceived Christmas compilation. With Nelson's "Pretty Paper" and Haggard's "If We Make It Through December" as well...
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Compiling material from Willie Nelson's later career, the box set Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 provides a thorough overview of the singer's most popular...
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Of all the records Willie Nelson made in the 1990s and since that time, none is more misunderstood or ignored than Spirit. Coming as it did so quietly and unobtrusively in...
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How Great Thou Art is a stripped-down collection of gospel standards, performed only on guitar, piano and, occasionally, upright bass. Apart from two new songs from Willie...
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Nelson's first concept album, recorded for RCA and inspired by Kahlil Gibran, isn't as well-conceived as later efforts like Red Headed Stranger. It gives an idea of where...
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By the time Willie Nelson released Shotgun Willie in 1973, he had already established himself as a Nashville songwriter of the first order, having penned timeless material...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three of Willie Nelson's late-'70s outlaw albums -- Lefty From Willie, Always on My Mind and Red Headed Stranger -- as a slip-cased box set....
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Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson's Hill Country Christmas is a laid-back, entertaining collection of such holiday favorites as "Away in a Manger," "Joy to the World," "O'...
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Willie Nelson's '60s recordings for RCA have long been the subject of critical disdain due to the supposed ill fit between Nelson's idiosyncratic style and the conventions...
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Not all of Willie Nelson's hits are on 16 Biggest Hits -- after all, it only features recordings he made for Columbia and skips over any hit duet he's had -- but it never...
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For whatever reason, Willie Nelson's Teatro -- like Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball -- seems to exist in a vacuum, completely set apart from his other recordings. It's untrue...
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Spanning two discs and 30 songs, The Very Best of Willie Nelson isn't as sublime as Greatest Hits (& Some that Will Be), which came close to capturing the essence of...
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For many listeners, the meaning of the title of Sony Special Products' Willie Standard Time may escape them at first. It's not that it's too clever -- it's just takes a...
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The albums collected on this CD are two of several LP-length tributes to and collaborations with giants of country music Willie Nelson recorded, in this case Old Friends...
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Classic Willie may not be all that the title claims, but BMG Special Products' budget-priced sampler does have a good cross-section of Nelson's RCA recordings, including...
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It might come as a surprise to learn that Night and Day is a jazz-minded instrumental album, but it shouldn't. Willie Nelson had been bringing jazz elements to his...
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A budget-priced collection assembling ten of Willie Nelson's spiritual recordings, Gospel Favorites is a good introduction to another of this multi-faceted performer's many...
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Released to coincide with the cable television documentary of the same name, A&E Biography provides a quick, entertaining summary of Willie Nelson's career, beginning with...
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BMG Special Products' Original Outlaws is an unremarkable but nevertheless enjoyable collection of live performances from Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, the two key...
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The back of this record says, "Willie writes the songs...You make them into hits" and proceeds to talk about some of the artists who have had hits from the pen of Willie...
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It may be hard to believe but Willie Nelson wasn't always a national icon. In the mid-'60s, he regularly hit the charts, except from behind the scenes as a busy and...
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Willie Nelson achieved broad-based popularity in the late '70s and '80s by singing pop standards on a series of albums starting with 1978's Stardust. This discount-priced,...
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Like most star-studded superstar comeback albums of the late '80s, '90s, and 2000s, Willie Nelson's The Great Divide isn't meant for longtime fans of the artists, or even...
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Willie Nelson's superstar guest album from 2002, The Great Divide, was promoted by a star-studded concert released later that year as Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars &...
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Prior to become a recording artist, Willie Nelson cut a number of demos for Pamper Music, a publishing company co-owned by Ray Price and Hal Smith. Though he had some...
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It seems Willie Nelson has never met a duet he doesn't like or at least won't give a try. He's also always had a fondness for live recordings--and that's why Live And...
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This could be the sweetest album of the summer. "Sweet" may not be the first description that comes to mind when one thinks of these two old-time Austin legends. But anyone...
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Willie Nelson and Ray Price reconvene for a second outing of Texas honky tonk and Western swing tunes, 23 years after their first duet recording, the venerable San Antonio...
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Willie Nelson's 1975 and 1977 albums Red Headed Stranger and To Lefty from Willie appear in their entirety on this import two-fer. Despite its higher import price it is...
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Willie Nelson recorded for many labels during the course of his lengthy career, but his greatest commercial success arrived during his time on Columbia during the late '70s...
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Borrowing a concept from Ray Davies, who promoted his X-Ray autobiography with a series of intimate concerts where he read excerpts, told stories about his songs and played...
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Outlaws and Angels is the audio counterpart to the Willie Nelson Special that aired on cable television in the summer of 2004. Here, Nelson is surrounded by friends who also...
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The remastered and expanded edition of To Lefty From Willie, truly one of Willie Nelson's classic recordings, is worth the cash for a number of reasons. The first is that it...
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The soundtrack to Honeysuckle Rose is an anomaly in the genre. It is really a collection of songs by Willie Nelson and his Family band as well as a host of friends like Jody...
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After years of singing standards, putting out duet albums, starring in movies, appearing on soundtracks, and taking other detours, Willie Nelson finally returned with an...
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At the height of outlaw country, Willie Nelson pulled off perhaps the riskiest move of the entire bunch. He set aside originals, country, and folk and recorded Stardust, a...
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Sony repackaged and re-released three of Willie Nelson's late-'70s albums -- Stardust, One for the Road (with Leon Russell), and the soundtrack to Honeysuckle Rose -- as a...
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On his millionth album (or does it just feel that way?), Willie Nelson teams with a new band -- except for Family Band harmonicat Mickey Raphael -- and duets with some major...
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Willie Nelson's entry into the Live at Billy Bob's Texas series of recordings features Nelson and the Family band running -- not walking or strolling -- through 20 of their...
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Face of a Fighter was originally recorded in 1960 in Nash Vegas but went unreleased until 1978 when it was issued on Willie Nelson's own Lone Star label. This compilation on...
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Released in late 1976, at the height of Willie-mania, The Troublemaker is Willie Nelson's first all-gospel album, but country gospel in his hands doesn't sound like...
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Countryman was first brainstormed by Don Was and Chris Blackwell way back in 1995 and was originally intended for release on Blackwell's Island Records. Work began in 1996...
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Recorded live at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe at the height of Willie madness in 1978, the double-CD remaster of Willie and Family Live makes an already long set even longer by...
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It's easy to argue that Willie Nelson's two albums for Atlantic, 1973's Shotgun Willie and 1974's Phases and Stages, are his two best albums. Recorded between his 1972...
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