Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson – Band of Brothers (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 12, 2022 · Comments off

SONY/Legacy Recordings is proud to announce the release of Band of Brothers, the new Willie Nelson studio album premiering 14 performances including nine brand-new songs composed by America’s quintessential pop/country songwriter.

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Willie Nelson – Always On My Mind (1982/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 12, 2022 · Comments off

Always on My Mind was released in 1982 and spent 22 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart, where it also spent 253 weeks total. It was produced by Chips Moman.

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Willie Nelson – … And Then I Wrote (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 12, 2022 · Comments off

…And Then I Wrote is the debut studio album by country singer Willie Nelson, recorded during August and September 1962 and released through Liberty Records.

Despite Nelson’s fruitless efforts to succeed with his recording releases with D Records, and after trying with other labels as a singer, he sold several of his original written songs to other artists. After his composition “Family Bible” became a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, he moved to Nashville, where he was signed by Pamper Music as a songwriter. Several of his songs became hits for other artists, including Faron Young (“Hello Walls”); Ray Price (“Night Life”) and Patsy Cline (“Crazy”).

Fueled by the success of his songwriting, he was signed by Liberty Records. During August, Nelson started recording his first album, produced by Joe Allison. The single releases of the album “Touch Me” and “The Part Where I Cry” were recorded on that day in Nashville, Tennessee, while it was completed during September in the recording facilities of the label in Los Angeles, California. The single “Touch Me” became Nelson’s second top ten, reaching number 7 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles.

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Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Tompall Glaser – Wanted! The Outlaws (1976/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · August 5, 2022 · Comments off

Wanted! The Outlaws is an album by Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, and Tompall Glaser, released in RCA Victor in 1976, and consisting of previously released material. Released to capitalize on the new outlaw country movement, Wanted! The Outlaws earned its place in music history by becoming the first country album to sell a million copies. The original liner notes were written by Chet Flippo, a contributor to Rolling Stone, and offer a short introduction and some praise on each artist involved with the project.

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Willie Nelson – A Beautiful Time (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Studio Masters By admin · May 30, 2022 · Comments off

After Willie Nelson’s fragile appearance at the 2019 CMA Awards, duetting with Kacey Musgraves on a heart-wrenching version of “The Rainbow Connection,” it wouldn’t have come as a shock if the legend hadn’t recorded another album. But Nelson, at 89, is on a prolific roll. He released two albums in 2021, as well as duets with Karen O and Michael McDonald, and performed at Farm Aid. He has a slew of tour dates on the calendar for 2022, to promote A Beautiful Time, his 72nd studio album. It’s not always an easy listen, but it’s an important one. Like Johnny Cash’s American IV, you are enveloped by the sense of mortality. Written by Nelson, “I Don’t Go to Funerals” has the feel of an outlaw classic and finds him humorously stubborn but also hopeful. “I don’t go to funerals/ And I won’t be at mine,” he sings. Instead he plans to be “at a big old pickin’ party” in the sky, alongside Waylon (Jennings), John (Cash), Merle (Haggard), Kris (presumably Kristofferson, who isn’t dead yet) and “our sweetheart Patsy Cline.” “Dusty Bottles” is a slow burn that lets Nelson’s ragged voice play to its advantage: “Dusty bottles pour a finer glass of wine/ An old beat-up guitar just sounds better/ And wisdom only comes with time.” “Live every day like it was your last one,” he offers on “Live Every Day,” “and one day you’re gonna be right.” Even though they’re not all by him, the choice of songs says something about what’s on Nelson’s mind. It’s a gentle record, with the music never getting in the way of letting Willie be Willie, even when he sounds particularly fragile on “I’ll Love You Till the Day I Die,” a romantic number written by Chris Stapleton and Rodney Crowell. (Throughout, longtime band member Mickey Raphael’s harmonica is like a call from the past.) Nelson sounds strongest on “Energy Follows Thought,” a stark and moving number delivered by a man who fought to find his place in Nashville (and who eventually gave up on that city to write his own rules). “Be careful what you ask for/ Make sure it’s really what you want/ Because your mind is made for thinking/ And energy follows thought.” It’s a hoot to hear Nelson modestly purr a slinky cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Tower of Song,” including the line: “I said to Hank Williams, ‘How lonely does it get?’/ Hank Williams hasn’t answered me yet/ But I hear him coughing all night long/ About 100 floors above me in the tower of song.” There’s also a cover of “With a Little Help from My Friends,” with Nelson’s voice reaching up so sweetly on the bridge, it’s like sunshine breaking through the clouds. The album closer, “Leave You With a Smile,” is a weepie, “I just want to leave you with a smile/ Even though that hasn’t always been my style/ I messed up best intentions/ But I’ve loved you all the while … If I run out of time/ I’ll wait for you in the sweet by-and-by.” – Shelly Ridenour

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The Highwaymen {Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson} – Live: American Outlaws (2016) Blu-ray 1080p AVC LPCM 5.1

Music Videos By admin · June 15, 2021 · Comments off

Title: The Highwaymen – Live: American Outlaws
Release Date: 2016
Genre: Country, Country Pop, Country Rock, Progressive Country, Traditional Country, Outlaw Country, Honky Tonk
Director: Jon Small
Artist: Willie Nelson – vocals, guitar; Johnny Cash – vocals, guitar; Waylon Jennings – vocals, guitar; Kris Kristofferson – vocals, guitar; Gene Chrisman – drums; J.R. Cobb – guitar; Bobby Emmons – keyboards; Mike Leech – bass; Mickey Raphael – harmonica; Danny Timms – keyboards, vocals; Robby Turner – pedal steel; Bobby Wood – keyboards, vocals; Reggie Young – guitar

Production/Label: Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment
Duration: 02:05:39 + 00:32:34
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: AC-3, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 22999 kbps / 1920*1080p / 23,976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English LPCM 5.1 / 48 kHz / 6912 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: English Dolby Digital 5.1 / 48 kHz / 640 kbps
Audio#3: English LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Size: 38.7 GB

The Highwaymen–Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson–were country music’s first bonafide “supergroup,” an epic quartet of blockbuster star power comprised of the four prime forces of America’s outlaw country music revolution. An essential musical and cultural influence, the Highwaymen were active for the decade spanning 1985 to 1995, recorded three major label albums, charted hit singles (including their Number 1 debut, “Highwayman,” which won the Best Country Song Grammy Award in 1986) and performed a variety of shows achieving mythic status for those lucky enough to have been there.

“There’s the four of us standing there, grouped around microphones. The Highwaymen. John, Kris, Willie, and me. I don’t think there are any other four people like us,” wrote Waylon Jennings in Waylon: An Autobiography. “John says that we came together because we all have a life commitment to the music. We know the same songs, but we sing them from different perspectives. We can blend the early country of the Carter Family with Texas swing, southern gospel, and rockabilly, and each of us feels comfortable singing real slices of life. There’s not one of us who hasn’t come face to face with his own mortality, and many’s the time we’ve gone through our struggles and survivals together….That’s our friendship, unlocking any door that stands between us, and it keeps four very different individuals together.”

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