Wille Nelson C/D, S&D

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A big, big favourite of mine, one of my half dozen favourite singers, and I have more music by Willie than anyone else (37 albums). I don't dislike one of them, but other than best ofs, there's not really a great album in the bunch. I'd say you need a good comp or two first, then see if you feel like delving further. So I'll mention some fave tracks rather than albums: Always On My Mind, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, Funny How Time Slips Away, Night Life, Hello Walls, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down, Crazy, Darkness On The Face Of The Earth, Face Of A Fighter, Undo The Right, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Ragged But Right, Me And Paul, On The Road Again, Three Days, Till I Gain Control Again, Yesterday's Wine.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 10 November 2002 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

two months pass...

I just seen, The Headed Stranger, on t.v. tonight and I thought it was great. The songs he sang, his acting and the movie it self, I just loved it. If I can find it and the song he sang I will surely buy them. My mother in law is gone by about 2 years and she love Wille also, and now I know why. Wille and Johnny Cash, what a pair, They are both wonderful and great peformers, God Bless them both and many years of entertaining. If you can send me what I want c.o.d., I would really apreicated it, Thank you. That is a great movie, keep them coming, Wille. Stanly Ulrich, 1452 Plantation Dr., Marion, Ohio,43302.

― Stanly Ulrich, Sunday, 12 January 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

Tracer is indeed correct about Stardust. A lot of his '90s output is classic, too, particularly Night and Day, a sort of instrumental Stardust with W.N. playing a shitload of wonderful guitar.

Columbia/Legacy is putting out a 2CD Essential Willie Nelson comp on March 11; that sounds like a good starting point if you wanna wait for it.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 12 January 2003 03:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Note to UK ILXers: a South Bank Show on Willie tonight, plus some Nobel Prize Concert show which features him later on.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 January 2003 13:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just watched the South Bank Show, and was particularly impressed with his take on 9/11 - they showed him leading the gathered stars in America The Beautiful from the big mmorial concert. He said "If someone hits me, I like to look around to find out who it is that hit me before I start hitting back," and went on to point out that America hasn't done a great job of hitting back at the perpetrators. He also said that if he finds his neighbour is very angry at him about something, he wants to find out what it is and think about stopping it. He added that if this neighbour is willing to kill Willie, his family and indeed himself over the issue, he thinks he ought to at least take the problem seriously.

Not Chomsky, but straightforward sense. I know Willie is hardly typical, but I tend not to look to country music for that - I generally find its politics is something I prefer to ignore or treat ironically.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 13 January 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin, "Phases And Stages" is a great LP!

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 13 January 2003 09:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

Saw the south bank show too. I'm predisposed to liking him because he was on knig of the hill, and because he has pig-tails. Now I know he's a fantastic guitar player too and he has very sensible views on war.

Might even get an album by him.

― mei (mei), Monday, 13 January 2003 10:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

eleven months pass...

I LOVE ALL OF WILLE NELSON MUSIC I REALY LIKE THE TAPE GREATEST HIT WRE CAN I GET A NEW ONE IN CD THANKS HOWARD

― HOWARD MUDD, Saturday, 13 December 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link

I LOVE ALL OF WILLE NELSON MUSIC I REALY LIKE THE TAPE GREATEST HIT WERE CAN I GET A NEW ONE IN CD THANKS HOWARD

― HOWARD MUDD, Saturday, 13 December 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

Shaky Mo's got a good list. At the risk of derailing the thread, I have to mention Willie & Waylon (the first one, WWII is pretty lazy) and Wanted: The Outlaws as they both have some really great Willie tracks (and W & W duets) from the same "golden" period (and while I'm at it, Waylon's Honkytonk Heroes and Dreaming My Dreams are must-haves).

His work in the eighties was kind of spotty, but Spirit (1992) and Teatro (1998) are both excellent all the way through.

Also, if you ever see it, rent Songwriter (1985). It's a genuinely funny movie loosely based on Willie and Waylon's dealings with ex-wives, Nashville record execs and shady promoters starring Willie, Kristofferson, and Rip Torn.

― Will (will), Saturday, 13 December 2003 22:59 (twenty years ago) link

~~the first one~~ WWII is pretty lazy

― Will (will), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

As far as modern Willie I second Spirit (especially) and Teatro. Haven't heard Night & Day, but it's supposed to be great. I also love Rainbow Connection.

Destroy: Milkcow Blues Boogie or whatever the name of the duet album from a couple of years ago was (also didn't care for the most recent album with all the all-star cameos, though I can't remember the title at all)

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:32 (twenty years ago) link

Just got the reissue of Red Headed Stranger as an Xmas gift for my dad -- he'll love it, I know.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link

Was MBB the one with Kid Rock, Sheryl Crowe et al? Yeah, I don't see how anything good can come of it.

OT: hey Chris, The Reigning Sound are no more? That seems to be the buzz over on the Goner site. Sucks.

― Will (will), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

being from Texas, Willie is in the blood. re-listening to "Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys," which i hadn't heard in twenty-plus years, i still knew all the words.
one of my most recent surprises is his album, _Yesterday's Wine_, which has one of the weirdest openings I've ever heard on a record. Spacy Greek chorus with his backing band, and a mumbled something about this being the era of the "imperfect man."
classic classic.

― Beta (abeta), Saturday, 13 December 2003 23:51 (twenty years ago) link

He's on my list (of people to buy CDs by).

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

Gee when Chomsky says that sort of thing, people paraphrase it as: "We got what we deserved."

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 14 December 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

My parents went to see him at the Clark County Fair 5 years ago. I was *too cool* but walked in to meet them while he was playing his nth encore, "please don't talk about me when I'm gone". I was thoroughly impressed and am a fan to this day. C!

― Jole, Sunday, 14 December 2003 05:10 (twenty years ago) link

Closed circuit to Will: seems that way -- Greg is moving to North Carolina from what I hear.

― chris herrington (chris herrington), Monday, 15 December 2003 00:57 (twenty years ago) link

The Party's Over needs a deluxe reissue.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 15 December 2003 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

i've been listening to "You Look Like the Devil" a lot lately... I think it's my favorite Willie vocal performance and such a lovely song. But it doesn't make a lot of sense; who's he singing about? How does he know what the subject looks like "in the morning" if he only met them yesterday? (and what's with the "I've met you" instead of "I met you"?) For awhile I thought it was about a politician... and then a prostitute... but whenever I think I've got it figured out there's always at least one line that doesn't really work.

regardless, the way he sings "holdin' hands and kissin' everybody" always floors me.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 22 December 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

In my 2017 country Spotify list, whenever a track from Willie’s “God’s Problem Child” album pops up it’s great enough to make me want to pick up the LP. Superb guitar playing and his voice still sounds fantastic. He’s not Al Green-smooth like he was back in the day, but his phrasing and emphasis and the irreplaceable Willie-ness are still on point.

― omar little, Saturday, 1 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link

he frequently pops up in my release radar (seems like an album a year) and it's always good

― niels, Saturday, 1 September 2018 18:50 (five years ago) link

his phrasing and emphasis and the irreplaceable Willie-ness are still on point.

this is otm, both his playing and his vocals

― rip van wanko, Saturday, 1 September 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link

one month passes...

this guy is so classic, always a joy when he pops up on my release radar - like he did today with the delightful call to democratic arms: "Vote 'Em Out"

https://open.spotify.com/track/1YX1kcNiWLk1GVYEDWsaNg

― niels, Friday, 12 October 2018 07:20 (five years ago) link

god bless 'im

― Οὖτις, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:47 (five years ago) link

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