Track Listing 1. Bring Me Sunshine 2. Following Me Around 3. Ghost, The 4. Happiness Lives Next Door 5. I Just Dropped By 6. Jimmy's Road 7. I Let My Mind Wander 8. If You Could See What's Going Through My Mind 9. Johnny One Time 10. Local Memory, The 11. Party's Over, The 12. Where Do You Stand? 13. When We Live Again? 14. What Can You Do To Me Now? 15. I'm A Memory 16. Sunday Morning Coming Down 17. Laying My Burdens Down
| Details | | Distributor: | Sony Music Entertainment | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Willie Nelson (vocals). Recording information: Independent Mastering, Nashville, TN. Long before he became a long-haired, convention-defying outlaw icon, Willie Nelson was a buttoned-down Nashville cat, courting the country mainstream by making records full of the sugary strings and outsized backing-vocal groups that were de rigeur at the time. The thing is, there were some great songs and strong vocal performances underneath it all, and NAKED WILLIE goes back in time to rewrite history. It presents the basic band-and-vocal tracks as they were originally laid down, without any of the aforementioned adornments that were added after the fact. Pulling back those layers of overproduction does indeed shine a spotlight on just how good Willie already was, even early in the game.
Editorial Reviews 4 stars out of 5 -- [T]he unadorned versions offer an intimacy and power that will surprise those familiar with Nelson's well-scrubbed RCA era....His magic was there all along. Mojo
Instead of Nelson's vocals being thin and reedy, here they're warmer and much more natural....The arrangements are starker, though not austere, and Nelson's vocals and guitar playing are more prominent, as they should be. Dirty Linen
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