Product details
Title: Essential Willie Nelson, The
Performer: Willie Nelson
Genre: Country
Sub Genre: Outlaw Country
Release Date: 25/04/2005
Recomended Retail Price: 18.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 2003
Label / Distributor: Columbia / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Pieces in Set: 2
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 5099751211723
Catalogue Number: 5121172
Additional notes
Album Notes: This CD commemorates Willie Nelson's 70th Birthday (April 30, 2003).
Personnel includes: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Emmylou Harris, Ray Price, Leann Womack, Julio Iglesias, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard, Aerosmith.
Producers include: Felton Jarvis, Arif Mardin, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Booker T. Jones.
Compilation producers: Nich Shaffman, Al Quaglieri.
Recorded between 1961 & 2002.
The catalog of Willie Nelson is so vast and rich that assembling an "essential" collection of only one or two discs seems nearly impossible. RCA's single-disc 1995 attempt was admirable and worthy, but doomed by space limitations. With a bit more room to move, Legacy's roomier two-disc collection is about close as anyone could hope to come. We get the full view of the great singer/songwriter's artistic journey.
"Hello Walls" and the evergreen "Crazy" hail from the days when Nelson was tooling around Nashville as a songwriter for hire but mystifyingly unable to connect as a solo artist. His transformation into a counterculture icon via the '70s "outlaw country" movement is marked by the likes of "Me and Paul" and "Bloody Mary Morning." His tremendous skill as in interpreter can be heard in such standards as "Blue Skies" and "Georgia on Mind," which helped make him a crossover success in the STARDUST era. Latter-day collaborations with everyone from Aerosmith ("One Time Too Many") to U2 ("Slow Dancing") show Willie's mercurial, eclectic nature. Add it all up and a portrait comes together of a man whose artistic vision has carried him across decades and stylistic shifts aplenty and seen him through in style.
Album Reviews: Dirty Linen (8/03, p.64) - "...The double disc, 41-track offering lives up to its marquee billing as the collection to end all Willie collections..."
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Titles on disc 1
1.: Night Life
2.: Hello Walls
3.: Crazy
4.: Funny How Time Slips Away
5.: I Never Cared For You
6.: Party's Over
7.: Good Times
8.: Me And Paul
9.: Shotgun Willie
10.: Bloody Mary Morning
11.: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
12.: Gold Hearted Woman - Nelson, Willie & Waylon Jennings
13.: If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
14.: Uncloudy Day
15.: Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Nelson, Willie & Waylon Jennings
16.: Georgia On My Mind
17.: Blue Skies
18.: All Of Me
19.: Heartbreak Hotel - Nelson, Willie & Leon Russell
20.: Help Me Make It Through The Night
21.: Whiskey River
22.: Stay A Little Longer
Titles on disc 2
1.: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
2.: Faded Love - Nelson, Willie & Ray Price
3.: On The Road Again
4.: Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
5.: Always On My Mind
6.: Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
7.: Pancho And Lefty - Nelson, Willie & Merle Haggard
8.: To All The Girls I've Loved Before - Nelson, Willie & Julio Iglesias
9.: City Of New Orleans
10.: Seven Spanish Angels - Nelson, Willie & Ray Charles
11.: Forgiving You Was Easy
12.: Highwayman - Nelson, Willie & Waylon Jennings/Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson
13.: Living In The Promiseland
14.: Nothing I Can Do About It Now
15.: Graceland
16.: Everywhere I Go - Nelson, Willie & Emmylou Harris
17.: Slow Dancing - Nelson, Willie & U2/Mickey Raphael
18.: Mendocino County Line - Nelson, Willie & Lee Ann Womack
19.: One Time Too Many (previously unreleased) - Nelson, Willie & Steven Tyler
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