Willie Nelson / The Essential Willie Nelson – CD

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Author: Nelson, Willie

Format: Limited Edition

Release Date: 22-04-2003

Details: Product Description Nelson, Willie Amazon.ca With 41 tracks drawn from nine record labels, the two-discEssential Willie Nelson is impressive in its breadth. Disc one is simply superb; it begins with 1961’s « Night Life, » recorded for the obscure Bellaire label, and moves on to several of Nelson’s early 1960s Liberty recordings, an overlooked gem recorded for Monument in 1964 (« I Never Cared for You »), a cherry-picked selection of his RCA and Atlantic sides, and finally his mid-1970s hits for Columbia (where he found his greatest chart success, beginning, in 1975, with the No. 1 single « Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain »). Disc two, however, is hit-or-miss. Classics like « On the Road Again, » « Pancho & Lefty, » and « Nothing I Can Do About It Now » are offset by such lesser material as « To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before » (recorded with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias), the phoned-in « City of New Orleans, » and the sounds-better-on-paper « Highwayman » collaboration with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. (Just because they all made it to No. 1 doesn’t make them « essential. ») Nelson’s two best albums of the 1990s,Across the Borderline andTeatro, are represented by a paltry two songs. The disc ends with collaborations with U2, Lee Ann Womack, and Steven Tyler and Aerosmith (the previously unreleased « One Time Too Many »). None is particularly worthy of a best-of collection. Still, while it doesn’t quite live up to its billing, theEssential Willie Nelson offers an excellent career overview of one of country music’s true legends.–David Hill

UPC: 696998674028

EAN: 0696998674028

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New