Willie Nelson Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Willie Nelson: Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
Before anyone called him an Outlaw, Willie Nelson tried to play the game in Nashville. In 1964, he recorded a few sessions for Monument, then accepted Chet Atkins's invitation to join RCA. He stayed eight years at RCA, years riddled with ups and downs, but years that helped shape the Willie Nelson we came to know. Atkins tried everything from Nashville Sound extravaganzas to intimate sessions with two guitars and a bass. There was a live album at Fort Worth's Panther Hall, plus an LP with backing from Ernest Tubb's Texas Troubadours. There were small hits, but nothing really worked. Toward the end of his tenure at RCA, Willie created two concept albums: 'Texas In My Soul', a tribute to his home state and 'Yesterday's Wine', now viewed as a landmark but barely noticed at the time. At his final session, he tried another concept, defined by its title song, 'Phases, Stages Circle And Cycles.' He didn't finish the idea at RCA, but would pick up the idea two years hence at Atlantic Records. The seeds of his future were planted at RCA, and this collection, assembling the complete Monument sessions from 1964 and the complete RCA sessions from 1964 to 1972. provide the definitive look at his evolutionary-if bumpy-road. It contains a 72-page book with a biography by Rich Kienzle, a discography, along with rare and many previously unpublished photos.
Article properties: Willie Nelson: Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Interpret: Willie Nelson
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Album titlle: Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set)
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Genre Country
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Label Bear Family Records
- Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
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Artikelart Box set
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EAN: 4000127158314
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01 | King Of A Lonely Castle | Willie Nelson |
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02 | (There'll Be) Someone Waiting For You | Willie Nelson |
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03 | To Make A Long Story Short | Willie Nelson |
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04 | I Never Cared For You | Willie Nelson |
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05 | You Left Me A Long, Long Time Ago | Willie Nelson |
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06 | I Feel That Old Feeling | Willie Nelson |
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07 | King Of A Lonely Castle | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Pretty Paper | Willie Nelson |
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09 | What A Merry Christmas This Could Be | Willie Nelson |
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10 | Healing Hands Of Time | Willie Nelson |
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11 | Talk To Me | Willie Nelson |
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12 | Whisky Walzer | Willie Nelson |
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13 | Little Darling | Willie Nelson |
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14 | Permanently Lonely | Willie Nelson |
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15 | Healing Hands Of Time | Willie Nelson |
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16 | Ashamed | Willie Nelson |
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17 | She's Not For You | Willie Nelson |
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18 | Are You Sure | Willie Nelson |
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19 | Night Life | Willie Nelson |
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20 | Mr. Record Man | Willie Nelson |
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21 | Healing Hands Of Time | Willie Nelson |
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22 | Funny How Time Slips Away | Willie Nelson |
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23 | My Own Peculiar Way | Willie Nelson |
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24 | One Day At A Time | Willie Nelson |
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25 | It Should Be Easier Now | Willie Nelson |
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26 | Darkness On The Face Of The Earth | Willie Nelson |
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27 | Buddy | Willie Nelson |
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28 | Hello Walls | Willie Nelson |
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29 | So Much To Do | Willie Nelson |
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30 | Within Your Crowd | Willie Nelson |
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Nelson, Willie - Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2 | ||||
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01 | Did I Ever Love You | Willie Nelson |
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02 | And So Will You My Love | Willie Nelson |
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03 | I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye | Willie Nelson |
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04 | Down To Our Last Goodbye | Willie Nelson |
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05 | Fraulein | Willie Nelson |
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06 | I Love You Because | Willie Nelson |
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07 | I'd Trade All Of My Tomorrows | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Making Believe | Willie Nelson |
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09 | Home In San Antone | Willie Nelson |
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10 | Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me) | Willie Nelson |
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11 | Columbus Stockade Blues | Willie Nelson |
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12 | Seasons Of My Heart | Willie Nelson |
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13 | Heartaches By The Number | Willie Nelson |
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14 | Go On Home | Willie Nelson |
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15 | My Windows Faces The South | Willie Nelson |
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16 | San Antonio Rose | Willie Nelson |
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17 | I'm Still Not Over You | Willie Nelson |
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18 | San Antonio Rose | Willie Nelson |
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19 | Columbus Stockade Blues | Willie Nelson |
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20 | He Sits At My Table | Willie Nelson |
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21 | A Wonderful Yesterday | Willie Nelson |
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22 | The Party's Over | Willie Nelson |
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23 | One In A Row | Willie Nelson |
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24 | Make Way For A Better Man | Willie Nelson |
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25 | Did I Ever Love You | Willie Nelson |
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26 | And So Will You My Love | Willie Nelson |
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27 | I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye | Willie Nelson |
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28 | Down To Our Last Goodbye | Willie Nelson |
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29 | A Wonderful Yesterday | Willie Nelson |
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30 | The Party's Over | Willie Nelson |
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31 | One In A Row | Willie Nelson |
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32 | Make Way For A Better Man | Willie Nelson |
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01 | Have I Stayed Away Too Long | Willie Nelson |
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02 | Some Other World | Willie Nelson |
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03 | If It's Wrong To Love You | Willie Nelson |
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04 | Have I Told You Latley That I Love You? | Willie Nelson |
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05 | You Made Me Live, Love And Die | Willie Nelson |
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06 | Born To Lose | Willie Nelson |
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07 | What Now My Love | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Lovin' Lies | Willie Nelson |
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09 | Teach Me To Forget | Willie Nelson |
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10 | Tender Years | Willie Nelson |
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11 | A Mansion On The Hill | Willie Nelson |
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12 | Something To Think About | Willie Nelson |
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13 | Blackjack County Chain | Willie Nelson |
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14 | Don't Say Love Or Nothing | Willie Nelson |
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15 | You Ought To Hear Me Cry | Willie Nelson |
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16 | I Don't Feel Anything | Willie Nelson |
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17 | Hold Me Tighter | Willie Nelson |
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18 | I'll Stay Around | Willie Nelson |
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19 | A Moment Isn't Very Long | Willie Nelson |
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20 | The Ghost | Willie Nelson |
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21 | No Tomorrow In Sight | Willie Nelson |
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22 | There Goes A Man | Willie Nelson |
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23 | Go Away | Willie Nelson |
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24 | Once Alone | Willie Nelson |
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25 | The End Of Understanding | Willie Nelson |
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26 | To Make A Long Story Short (She's Gone) | Willie Nelson |
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27 | Suffer In Silence | Willie Nelson |
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28 | Truth Number One | Willie Nelson |
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29 | When I Don't Have You | Willie Nelson |
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01 | Someday You'll Call My Name | Willie Nelson |
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02 | Wild Memories | Willie Nelson |
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03 | December Day | Willie Nelson |
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04 | Pages | Willie Nelson |
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05 | Little Things | Willie Nelson |
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06 | Good Times | Willie Nelson |
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07 | She's Still Gone | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Sweet Memories | Willie Nelson |
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09 | Johnny One Time | Willie Nelson |
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10 | Jimmy's Road | Willie Nelson |
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11 | Bring Me Sunshine | Willie Nelson |
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12 | I Let My Mind Wander | Willie Nelson |
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13 | I Just Don't Understand | Willie Nelson |
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14 | I Just Dropped By | Willie Nelson |
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15 | The Local Memory | Willie Nelson |
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16 | Natural To Be Gone | Willie Nelson |
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17 | Love Has A Mind Of Its Own | Willie Nelson |
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18 | I'll Walk Alone | Willie Nelson |
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19 | It Will Come To Pass | Willie Nelson |
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20 | My Own Peculiar Way | Willie Nelson |
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21 | The Message | Willie Nelson |
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22 | That's All | Willie Nelson |
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23 | Any Old Arms Won't Do | Willie Nelson |
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24 | Johnny One Time | Willie Nelson |
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25 | Jimmy's Road | Willie Nelson |
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26 | Bring Me Sunshine | Willie Nelson |
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27 | Bloody Merry Morning | Willie Nelson |
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28 | Pins And Needley (In My Heart) | Willie Nelson |
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29 | Everbody's Talkin' | Willie Nelson |
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Nelson, Willie - Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5 | ||||
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01 | Crazy Arms | Willie Nelson |
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02 | I Gotta Get Drunk | Willie Nelson |
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03 | Wabash Cannon Ball | Willie Nelson |
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04 | One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart) | Willie Nelson |
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05 | Who Do I Know In Dallas | Willie Nelson |
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06 | Both Sides Now | Willie Nelson |
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07 | It Could Be Said That Way | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Once More With Feeling | Willie Nelson |
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09 | Following Me Around | Willie Nelson |
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10 | Minstrel Man | Willie Nelson |
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11 | Where Do You Stand? | Willie Nelson |
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12 | When We Live Again | Willie Nelson |
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13 | If You Could See What's Going Through My Mind | Willie Nelson |
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14 | Happiness Lives Next Door | Willie Nelson |
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15 | I've Seen That Look On Me (A Thousand Times) | Willie Nelson |
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16 | I Don't Feel Anything | Willie Nelson |
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17 | Laying My Burdens Down | Willie Nelson |
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18 | How Long Have You Been There | Willie Nelson |
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19 | Senses | Willie Nelson |
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20 | Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down | Willie Nelson |
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21 | What Can You Do To Me Now? | Willie Nelson |
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22 | The Losers Song | Willie Nelson |
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23 | Fire And Rain | Willie Nelson |
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24 | I Can Cry Again | Willie Nelson |
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25 | I'm A Memory | Willie Nelson |
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26 | That's Why I Love Her So | Willie Nelson |
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27 | If You Could See What's Going Through My Mind | Willie Nelson |
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28 | The Losers Song | Willie Nelson |
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Nelson, Willie - Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 6 | ||||
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01 | Yours Love | Willie Nelson |
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02 | Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus | Willie Nelson |
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03 | Today I Started Loving You Again | Willie Nelson |
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04 | I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry | Willie Nelson |
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05 | Will You Remember? | Willie Nelson |
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06 | Wonderful Future | Willie Nelson |
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07 | Wake Me When It's Over | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Help Me Make It Through The Night | Willie Nelson |
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09 | Rainy Day Blues | Willie Nelson |
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10 | If You Really Loved Me | Willie Nelson |
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11 | The Words Don't Fit The Picture | Willie Nelson |
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12 | What Do You Want Me To Do? | Willie Nelson |
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13 | Stay Away From Lonely Places | Willie Nelson |
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14 | Good Hearted Woman | Willie Nelson |
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15 | Home Is Where You're Happy | Willie Nelson |
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16 | My Kind Of Girl | Willie Nelson |
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17 | I'd Rather You Didn't Love Me | Willie Nelson |
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18 | Undo The Right | Willie Nelson |
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19 | One Step Beyond | Willie Nelson |
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20 | I Want A Girl | Willie Nelson |
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21 | Country Willie | Willie Nelson |
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22 | You Left Me A Long, Long Time Ago | Willie Nelson |
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23 | London | Willie Nelson |
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24 | A Moment Isn't Very Long | Willie Nelson |
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25 | Who'll Buy Me Memories | Willie Nelson |
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26 | No Love Around | Willie Nelson |
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27 | Come On Home | Willie Nelson |
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28 | Mountain Dew | Willie Nelson |
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01 | Dallas | Willie Nelson |
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02 | San Antonio | Willie Nelson |
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03 | Streets Of Laredo | Willie Nelson |
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04 | Who Put All My Ex's In Texas | Willie Nelson |
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05 | The Hill Country Theme | Willie Nelson |
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06 | Waltz Across Texas | Willie Nelson |
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07 | Travis Letter | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Remember The Alamo | Willie Nelson |
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09 | Texas In My Soul | Willie Nelson |
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10 | There's A Little Bit Of Everything In Texas | Willie Nelson |
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11 | Beautiful Texas | Willie Nelson |
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12 | Medley: Where's The Show/Let Me Be A Man | Willie Nelson |
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13 | In God's Eyes | Willie Nelson |
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14 | Family Bible | Willie Nelson |
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15 | It's Not For Me To Understand | Willie Nelson |
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16 | Medley: These Are Difficult/ | Willie Nelson |
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17 | Remember The Good Times | Willie Nelson |
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18 | Summer Of Roses | Willie Nelson |
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19 | December Day | Willie Nelson |
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20 | Yesterday's Wine | Willie Nelson |
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21 | Me And Paul | Willie Nelson |
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22 | Goin' Home | Willie Nelson |
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23 | Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles And Scenes | Willie Nelson |
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24 | Pretend I Never Happened | Willie Nelson |
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25 | Sister's Coming Home | Willie Nelson |
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26 | Down At The Corner Beer Joint | Willie Nelson |
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27 | I'm Falling In Love Again | Willie Nelson |
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28 | Chet's Tune | Willie Nelson |
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29 | Poor Old Ugly Gladys Jones | Willie Nelson |
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Nelson, Willie - Nashville Was The Roughest..(8-CD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 8 | ||||
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01 | Introduction Bo Powell/Willie Introduces Band | Willie Nelson |
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02 | Medley: Mr. Record Man/Hello Walls/ | Willie Nelson |
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03 | One Day At A Time] | Willie Nelson |
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04 | Medley: The Last Letter/Half A Man/ | Willie Nelson |
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05 | I Never Cared For You] | Willie Nelson |
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06 | Yesterday | Willie Nelson |
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07 | Touch Me | Willie Nelson |
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08 | Something To Think About | Willie Nelson |
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09 | I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye | Willie Nelson |
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10 | How Long Is Forever | Willie Nelson |
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11 | Night Life | Willie Nelson |
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12 | Medley: Opportunity To Cry/Permanently Lonely | Willie Nelson |
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13 | My Own Peculiar Way | Willie Nelson |
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14 | I Love You Because | Willie Nelson |
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15 | I'm Still Not Over You | Willie Nelson |
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16 | There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight | Willie Nelson |
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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.
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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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