Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Night Life
2. Hello Walls
3. Crazy
4. Funny How Times Slips Away
5. I Never Cared For You
6. Party's Over, The
7. Good Times
8. Me and Paul
9. Shotgun Willie
10. Bloody Mary Morning
11. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
12. Good Hearted Woman - (with Waylon Jennings)
13. If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
14. Uncloudy Day
15. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys - (with Waylon Jennings)
16. Georgia on My Mind
17. Blue Skies
18. All of Me
19. Heartbreak Hotel - (with Leon Russell)
20. Help Me Make It Through the Night
21. Whiskey River - (live)
22. Stay a Little Longer - (live)
DISC 2:
1. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
2. Faded Love - (with 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 & Lefty - (with Merle Haggard)
8. To All the Girls I've Loved Before - (with Julio Iglesias)
9. City of New Orleans
10. Seven Spanish Angels - (with Ray Charles)
11. Forgiving You Was Easy
12. Highwayman - (with 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 - (with Emmylou Harris)
17. Slow Dancing - (featuring Mickey Raphael/U2)
18. Mendocino County Line - (with Lee Ann Womack)
19. One Time Too Many - (with Aerosmith)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Johnny Cash, Julio Iglesias, Kris Kristofferson, Leon Russell, Merle Haggard, Mickey Raphael, Ray Charles, Ray Price, U2, Waylon Jennings | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
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.
Editorial Reviews
...The double disc, 41-track offering lives up to its marquee billing as the collection to end all Willie collections...
Dirty Linen (08/01/2003)
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