Track Listing 1. Stardust 2. Georgia on My Mind 3. Blue Skies 4. All of Me 5. Unchained Melody 6. September Song 7. On the Sunny Side of the Street 8. Moonlight in Vermont 9. Don't Get Around Much Anymore 10. Someone to Watch Over Me 11. Scarlet Ribbons - (previously unreleased, bonus track) 12. I Can See Clearly Now - (previously unreleased, bonus track)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Bobbie Nelson, Booker T. Jones, Mickey Raphael | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes Personnel: Willie Nelson (vocals, guitar); Jody Payne (guitar); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Bobbie Nelson (piano); Booker T. Jones (organ); Bee Spears, Chris Ethridge (bass); Paul English, Rex Ludwig (drums). Producer: Booker T. Jones. Reissue producer: Al Quaglieri. Includes liner notes by Mickey Raphael, Booker T. Jones and Willie Nelson. Digitally remastered by Chris Athens (Sterling Sound, New York, New York). This is part of Legacy's American Milestones series. 15 years before Tony Bennett made the Great American Songbook safe for the MTV generation, there was Willie Nelson's STARDUST, one of the greatest "crossover" albums in history. The concept was simple: Willie singing a select group of familiar standards by composers such as Carmichael, Berlin, Weill, Ellington, the Gershwins, all in his familiar and inimitable style. Yet the result is not a quite a country treatment of these tunes. For one thing, the great R&B organist Booker T. Jones produced the session in addition to performing with Nelson's superb band featuring the estimable Mickey Raphael on harmonica. One of the enduring pleasures of STARDUST is the interplay between hushed organ, keening harmonica and Nelson's own stately gut-string guitar as well as his beautifully measured, plaintive singing.
Editorial Reviews ...an album of classic American songs that just about everybody has heard....Nelson says that these Tin Pan Alley tunes are his all time favorite songs and, it seems that he and the band enjoyed playing them... Dirty Linen (02/01/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...STARDUST sounds better than ever... Uncut (03/01/2000)
4 stars out of 5 -- Nelson invests each song with a relaxed, stately tone that feels loose and jazzy, yet also makes the most out of the melody. Record Collector
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