Greatest Hits [BMG] by Willie Nelson (CD, May-2003, Bmg/Rca Camden)

Album Features
UPC:	828765276528
Artist:	Willie Nelson
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2003
Record Label:	Bmg/Rca Camden
Genre:	Country, Progressive Country

Track Listing
1. Fire and Rain
2. Me and Paul
3. Crazy Arms
4. Night Life
5. Funny How Time Slips Away
6. Hello Walls
7. If You Can Touch Her at All
8. Yesterday's Wine
9. Help Me Make It Through the Night
10. One in a Row
11. San Antonio Rose
12. Once More with Feeling
13. Good Hearted Woman
14. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
15. Just to Satisfy You
16. Blackjack County Chains
17. Good Times
18. I'm a Memory

Details
Contributing Artists:	Leon Russell, Ray Price, Doug Sahm, Booker T. Jones
Distributor:	MSI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Willie Nelson (vocals, guitar); Leon Russell (vocals, keyboards); Ray Price (vocals); Jody Payne (guitar, mandolin); Larry Gatlin (guitar, background vocals); Bucky Meadows (guitar); James Clayton Day (pedal steel guitar, dobro); Doug Sahm (fiddle, background vocals); Mickey Raphael (harmonica); Booker T. Jones (piano, organ); Bobbie Nelson (piano); Bee Spears, Chris Ethridge (bass); Paul English, Rex Ludwig (drums); Kris Kristofferson, Crystal Gayle (background vocals).Producers: Willie Nelson, Booker T. Jones, Arif Mardin, Sydney Pollack, Leon Russell.Recorded between 1975 & 1981. Includes liner notes by Jonny Whiteside.GREATEST HITS is a collection of tracks recorded by the country great Willie Nelson. The material is from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.Liner Note Author: Brendon Griffin.If you're looking to own one and only one Willie Nelson disc, look no further. GREATEST HITS (AND SOME THAT WILL BE) lives up to its name, delivering 20 killer tracks from Willie's most fruitful era, the 1970s. During these years, Nelson successfully pushed the limits of commercial country music, tackling such themes as sexuality and vulnerability with a candor previously unheard in the genre. The result was "outlaw country," a movement so dubbed for its brazenness. The hallmarks of Nelson's sound--reedy vocals, quirky gut-string guitar solos, and a band that always sounds on the verge of falling apart without ever being remotely in danger of doing so--are all front and center on this disc.Nelson's greatness lies in his undeniable sincerity and in his mastery of various American genres: jazz, blues, Western swing, gospel, honky-tonk, even hints of rock and roll seamlessly rise to the surface when called for, then recede before they've outstayed their welcome. For those who hated Willie merely because he was so popular in the 1970s, here's the place to give him a second chance. You might be pleasantly surprised. Those who love Willie undoubtedly already know that herein lies the mother lode.

Spans much of Nelson's most successful recordings from the mid 60's to the mid 80's including many of his "Outlaw" period cuts.