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3-CD box (LP-size) with 68-page hardcover book, 77 tracks. Playing time approx. 188 mns. 'It's... more

Willie Nelson: It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

3-CD box (LP-size) with 68-page hardcover book, 77 tracks. Playing time approx. 188 mns.


'It's been rough and rocky travelin''…and the journey starts here. No one in American music history has been more prolific than Willie Nelson, but these incredibly rare recordings come from the time when he had to beg people to record him. It's a story of small labels, local hits, and beer hall nights that took him from central Texas to Washington state, back to Texas, and on to Nashville in 1960. "Nashville was where the store was," he wrote later. "If I had anything to sell, it must be taken to the store."

This 3-CD set includes all his commercial recordings made between 1954 and 1963. Willie Nelson's tour of the local labels began with Texas' Sarg Records in 1954 and then his own Willie Nelson Records in 1957 (recently discovered out-takes from that self-produced session are included here for the first time). Back in Texas in 1959, Willie Nelson recorded for 'D' Records, and all of his 'D' recordings are here, together with his rare first version of Nite Life, originally issued on the Rx label. Available alternate takes have been included.

Willie Nelson moved to Nashville as a songwriter, and after scoring several successes as a writer, he was signed to Liberty Records. He cracked the country Top 10 with Willingly and Touch Me in 1962. All of the Liberty recordings are here too, including Willie Nelson's original versions of Crazy, Funny How Time Slips Away, Hello Walls, Mister Record Man, and Three Days. He has performed these songs throughout the six decades of his career, but here's how he originally did them.

This set is an essential companion to 'NASHVILLE WAS THE ROUGHEST', an eight-CD boxed set of Willie Nelson's Monument and RCA Victor recordings that picks up where this leaves off. Together, they capture eighteen years of one of the most incredible careers in all American music.

This set also includes a 68-page book by Rich Kienzle and a complete discography by Richard Weize, as well as many unpublished photos and illustrations.

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  • Interpret: Willie Nelson

  • Album titlle: It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Preiscode CK
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127166647

  • weight in Kg 1.95
Nelson, Willie - It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song Willie Nelson
02 The Storm Has Just Begun Willie Nelson
03 No Place For Me Willie Nelson
04 Lumberjack Willie Nelson
05 Man With The Blues Willie Nelson
06 The Storm Has Just Begun Willie Nelson
07 What A Way To Live Willie Nelson
08 Misery Mansion Willie Nelson
09 Nite Life Willie Nelson
10 Rainy Day Blues Willie Nelson
11 No Place For Me (alt 1) Willie Nelson
12 No Place For Me (alt 2) Willie Nelson
13 No Place For Me (alt 3) Willie Nelson
14 Lumberjack (alt 1) Willie Nelson
15 Lumberjack (alt 2) Willie Nelson
16 Nite Life (alt) Willie Nelson
17 Rainy Day Blues (alt) Willie Nelson
18 Attention Songwriters (promot. announcement) Willie Nelson
Nelson, Willie - It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 The Part Where I Cry Willie Nelson
02 Touch Me Willie Nelson
03 Mr. Record Man Willie Nelson
04 Go Away Willie Nelson
05 The Waiting Time Willie Nelson
06 Where My House Lives Willie Nelson
07 Country Willie Willie Nelson
08 How Long Is Forever (vers. 1) Willie Nelson
09 Three Days Willie Nelson
10 Darkness On The Face Of The Earth Willie Nelson
11 One Step Beyond Willie Nelson
12 Undo The Right Willie Nelson
13 Crazy Willie Nelson
14 Funny How Time Slips Away Willie Nelson
15 Hello Walls Willie Nelson
16 Wake Me When It's Over Willie Nelson
17 Our Chain Of Love (& SHIRLEY COLLIE) Willie Nelson
18 Is This My Destiny (& SHIRLEY COLLIE) Willie Nelson
19 Willingly (& SHIRLEY COLLIE) Willie Nelson
20 You Dream About Me (& SHIRLEY COLLIE) Willie Nelson
21 There Goes A Man Willie Nelson
22 There's Gonna Be Love In My House Tonight Willie Nelson
23 You Wouldn't Even Cross The Street Willie Nelson
24 How Long Is Forever (vers. 2) Willie Nelson
25 Half A Man Willie Nelson
26 Take My Word (vers. 1) Willie Nelson
27 The Last Letter Willie Nelson
28 Home Motel Willie Nelson
29 Take My Word (vers. 2) Willie Nelson
Nelson, Willie - It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Right Or Wrong Willie Nelson
02 Roly Poly Willie Nelson
03 Let Me Talk To You Willie Nelson
04 The Things That Might Have Been Willie Nelson
05 The Way You See Me Willie Nelson
06 Columbus Stockade (vers. 1) Willie Nelson
07 Together (& SHIRLEY COLLIE) Willie Nelson
08 You Took My Happy Away (vers. 1) Willie Nelson
09 Second Fiddle Willie Nelson
10 Opportunity To Cry Willie Nelson
11 Lonely Little Mansion Willie Nelson
12 You Took My Happy Away (vers. 2) Willie Nelson
13 Feed It A Memory Willie Nelson
14 I Hope So Willie Nelson
15 This Cold War With You Willie Nelson
16 Blue Must Be The Color Of The Blues Willie Nelson
17 Seasons Of My Heart Willie Nelson
18 At The Bottom Willie Nelson
19 I'll Walk Alone Willie Nelson
20 River Boy Willie Nelson
21 Am I Blue Willie Nelson
22 Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go) Willie Nelson
23 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight Willie Nelson
24 Tomorrow Night Willie Nelson
25 Columbus Stockade Blues (vers. 2)(& S.COLLIE) Willie Nelson
26 Columbus Stockade Blues (vers. 3)(& S.COLLIE) Willie Nelson
27 You Wouldn't Even Cross The Street Willie Nelson
28 River Boy Willie Nelson
29 At The Bottom Willie Nelson
30 I Hope So Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson Born on 30 4th 1933 in Abbott, Texas, USA. Willie Nelson played as a child and... more
"Willie Nelson"

Willie Nelson

Born on 30 4th 1933 in Abbott, Texas, USA.

Willie Nelson played as a child and teenager in country bands. He is one of the biggest stars of the genre at all and was represented until today with over 100 singles on the U.S. country charts. Following the release of his debut 45er 'Lumberjack' in 1956, he moved to Nashville, where he sold his own demos and thus ushered in his career authors. In 1961 he played with Ray Price at the Cherokee Cowboys.

He wrote his first hits for Roy Orbison, Patsy Cline and Faron Young. Nelson settled after his marriage to Shirley Collie as a pig farmer in Ridgetop, Tennessee, down. He stepped up today with stylistically different colleagues such as Bob Dylan, Carlos Santana, Neil Young and Julio Iglesias in duet on.

With Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson he plays in addition to his solo career, under the name of The Highwaymen. 1978 founded his own label, Lone Star. Nelson was the early 90s with around $ 16 million debt to the IRS in the Cretaceous. 1991: marriage to Annie D'Angelo. The number of Nelson rehearsed songs beyond the 1000 mark.

From the Bear Family Book - 1000 pinpricks of Bernd Matheja - BFB10025 -

Willie Nelson


1964 through 1972 were eight of Nashville’s more unsettled years.The pop-oriented ‘Nashville Sound’ pioneered by Chet Atkins and Owen Bradley had been adopted by much of the industry. In the late 1950s, after rock ‘n’ roll knocked the entire Nashville music industry off its shaky foundation, that smoother, more sophisticated sound had saved Nashville by expanding country records to grab pop record buyers. It made Don Gibson, Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline greater stars than they’d been singing hard country alone. By 1964, that initial rush of creativity had slowed. Plane crashes claimed two top exponents, Cline in 1963, Reeves in the summer of 1964. At that point, Eddy Arnold, whose string of massive hits diminished in the wake of Elvis, was about to make a dramatic comeback with elaborately orchestrated ballads like Make The World Go Away, light years from the intimate dignity of his 1940s hits. Ray Price had already begun to occasionally wrap a string quartet around the Cherokee Cowboys on many of his recording sessions, attracting new fans but sending many older ones stomping off in disgust.

Not even a honkytonk giant of George Jones’s stature was immune from Nashville sound production. Onstage, it was Texas honkytonk business as usual, the fiddle and steel whining behind him. The recording studio was another matter. Pappy Daily, his discoverer and only producer, forced Jones into the softer mold at United Artists and later at Musicor Records. He continued in that mode with Billy Sherrill after joining Epic in 1970.

A few wild cards counteracted the syrupy side of things, since the country audience divided as it expanded. As Price slithered out of his rhinestone skin into tuxes, a West Coast honky-tonk cyclone, unstoppable as the dust storms that drove Texans and Okies to California in the first place, roared out of Bakersfield. The success of Buck Owens, followed by the rise of Merle Haggard, reflected the belief of many fans that some of the pop stuff was going too far afield, that Nashville needed an alternative. A second alternative came from within Music City with the rise of Johnny Cash. Popular for nearly a decade, his no-frills music and phenomenally successful 1967 ‘Folsom Prison’ LP weren’t as surprising to Nashville as his acceptance by pop audiences.

On 16th Avenue South, Atkins and Bradley continued setting the pace. At Columbia, Don Law was retiring, and though Bob Johnston was his immediate successor, the label’s rising star was clearly Billy Sherrill, the former R&B musician and Sam Phillips’ engineer who took over much of the production for Columbia’s Epic subsidiary. Nearly all Nashville producers saw the softer sound as the strongest and simplest formula for putting across a new artist quickly. It explained why artists were counseled to trust their producer, who usually picked material (unless the singer was one potent writer) and offered ‘direction’. If a producer happened to have written some of the recommended songs, or at least own an interest in publishing songs they pushed on artists, it was a conflict of interest routinely winked at around 16th Avenue South.

There was one huge problem. Assuming that one sound could fit any singer was an idea that didn’t always work out in practice. Convincing the men in the control room that ooh-aah choruses and muted strings just didn’t work with everyone was quite another matter.

That was the world Willie Nelson faced in 1964.

At 31, he was one of Nashville’s top writers, whose songs had been hits for many, including Patsy Cline, Billy Walker and Faron Young. Like other writers of his generation, Harlan Howard and Hank Cochran among them, his recording career had been less impressive. He’d started his singing career before Hank Williams died. His early recordings in Washington State and Houston went unnoticed. Only after moving to Nashville in 1960 and crafting such standards as Crazy, Funny How Time Slips Away and Hello Walls did he land a major label deal with Liberty. After a Top Ten duet single and a solo Top Ten hit, both in 1962, his success on records quickly faded while he continued writing brilliant songs for others.

Song royalties gave Willie a farm in Ridgetop, Tennessee, northwest of Nashville, where he played the eccentric artist, living with an extended family, sustained by writers’ royalties and frequent touring. That would have satisfied many. But he still believed he had potential as a singer if someone gave him a chance. He still wanted to record, knowing he had it in him to succeed, even if many in Nashville regarded his weird vocal phrasing and unconventional attitude, disdain for spangled suits and mile-high pompadours, as a bit off base.It wasn’t like a successful, eccentric songwriter couldn’t become a recording star on his own terms. In 1964, Willie’s longtime pal Roger Miller had done just that, scoring big with Dang Me and Chug-A-Lug that year after unsuccessful stints on Mercury, Decca and RCA. King Of The Road in 1965 would take Roger far beyond the country crowd.

Willie spent a brief two-session period with Monument in 1964 before beginning eight years with RCA. Over those years, he’d enter the RCA Nashville studios for 44 solo sessions. Guitarist Chet Atkins, RCA’s Vice President in charge of Nashville Operations, probably understood unconventionality better than just about anyone in Nashville at the time. He appreciated Willie’s uniqueness. His challenge was to sell Nelson to a wider audience by integrating that uniqueness into the usual trends to make it acceptable, just as he had with Gibson and Reeves.

In Willie’s case, Atkins admittedly didn’t do very well. During those years, with himself or Felton Jarvis producing, a total of 15 Willie Nelson RCA singles charted, only two, One In A Row in 1965 and Bring Me Sunshine in 1968, breaking into ‘Billboard’s’ country Top Twenty. Eight of his LPs made it to the magazine’s Top Country Albums chart, only three rising into the Top Ten. At the time, the only area Willie enjoyed consistent popularity with his records was his home state of Texas.

Those eight years would leave the singer frustrated, a frustration that would ferment and expand, drilling into his mind the idea that he could produce better records on himself than anyone in Nashville could. He was not alone among RCA artists sick of the label’s assembly-line approach. His friend and fellow RCA artist Waylon Jennings, another who’d enjoyed only moderate success, had a similar idea. In the mid-1970s, Nashville would call it ‘Outlaw’, then act as if it were their idea all along and package old Waylon and Willie material with newer recordings. They’d also give country music its first platinum LP with the 1976 release ‘Wanted! The Outlaws’. Today, it's easy to see he and Waylon were right, and just as easy to blame Atkins and Jarvis for not knowing how to produce either one.

Would Willie have fared any better at any other major label in those years? That’s doubtful. Atkins correctly characterized Willie as being “ahead of his time.” From 1964 through 1972, Nelson hadn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of being understood anywhere but Texas. Today, the world understands the Lone Star State’s quirky musical eclecticism at the heart of Willie’s repertoire. 30 years ago, few outsiders and most of Nashville didn’t get it at all. True, Nashville accepted Texas singers, but ignored the culture that produced them, preferring to shove them into the mold.

That’s why it isn’t likely that results would have been any better for Willie artistically or commercially, had he been recording with Don Law at Columbia, for Ken Nelson or Marvin Hughes at Capitol, for Billy Sherrill at Epic, Owen Bradley at Decca or Jerry Kennedy at Mercury. The only Nashville producers in that era who stood a remote chance of understanding him would have been mavericks like Bob Johnston, who produced Johnny Cash at Columbia or Jack Clement, with his lifelong flair for the unconventional. Would an independent label have been the answer? Hardly, given the non-results during his brief stay at Monument.

Taken in the context of that era, Willie didn’t break a couple of Nashville rules. He broke a slew of them. At RCA, production of his records was usually formulaic even if his songs were unconventional. While recording his own tunes wasn’t a reach, at RCA he laid down a crazy quilt of material, mostly Nelson originals with country and pop standards mixed in. He occasionally covered others’ hits, with a few contemporary pop and rock songs and whatever else he liked thrown in for good measure. After he became an established force in both country and popular music, Willie’s varied repertoire and musical settings would be viewed as marvelous eclecticism. When he was recording for RCA, such variety was seen as eccentric at best.

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Tracklist
Nelson, Willie - It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song
02 The Storm Has Just Begun
03 No Place For Me
04 Lumberjack
05 Man With The Blues
06 The Storm Has Just Begun
07 What A Way To Live
08 Misery Mansion
09 Nite Life
10 Rainy Day Blues
11 No Place For Me (alt 1)
12 No Place For Me (alt 2)
13 No Place For Me (alt 3)
14 Lumberjack (alt 1)
15 Lumberjack (alt 2)
16 Nite Life (alt)
17 Rainy Day Blues (alt)
18 Attention Songwriters (promot. announcement)
Nelson, Willie - It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 The Part Where I Cry
02 Touch Me
03 Mr. Record Man
04 Go Away
05 The Waiting Time
06 Where My House Lives
07 Country Willie
08 How Long Is Forever (vers. 1)
09 Three Days
10 Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
11 One Step Beyond
12 Undo The Right
13 Crazy
14 Funny How Time Slips Away
15 Hello Walls
16 Wake Me When It's Over
17 Our Chain Of Love (& SHIRLEY COLLIE)
18 Is This My Destiny (& SHIRLEY COLLIE)
19 Willingly (& SHIRLEY COLLIE)
20 You Dream About Me (& SHIRLEY COLLIE)
21 There Goes A Man
22 There's Gonna Be Love In My House Tonight
23 You Wouldn't Even Cross The Street
24 How Long Is Forever (vers. 2)
25 Half A Man
26 Take My Word (vers. 1)
27 The Last Letter
28 Home Motel
29 Take My Word (vers. 2)
Nelson, Willie - It's Been Rough ... (3-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Right Or Wrong
02 Roly Poly
03 Let Me Talk To You
04 The Things That Might Have Been
05 The Way You See Me
06 Columbus Stockade (vers. 1)
07 Together (& SHIRLEY COLLIE)
08 You Took My Happy Away (vers. 1)
09 Second Fiddle
10 Opportunity To Cry
11 Lonely Little Mansion
12 You Took My Happy Away (vers. 2)
13 Feed It A Memory
14 I Hope So
15 This Cold War With You
16 Blue Must Be The Color Of The Blues
17 Seasons Of My Heart
18 At The Bottom
19 I'll Walk Alone
20 River Boy
21 Am I Blue
22 Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)
23 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
24 Tomorrow Night
25 Columbus Stockade Blues (vers. 2)(& S.COLLIE)
26 Columbus Stockade Blues (vers. 3)(& S.COLLIE)
27 You Wouldn't Even Cross The Street
28 River Boy
29 At The Bottom
30 I Hope So