Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World (LP Vinyl)
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At 91, Willie Nelson keeps doing exactly what he wants, and what he wants is to shine a light on great songwriting. Crowell's catalog spans decades of country and Americana, and Nelson treats these songs the way he's always treated the American Songbook: not as covers, but as conversations, finding the threads that connect two Lone Star State lifers who've each spent a lifetime writing about the human condition.
Willie Nelson - Oh What A Beautiful World - Willie Nelson's new album (his 77th solo studio album and his 154th album overall) focuses on the songs of Rodney Crowell, the latest in Nelson's storied history of devoting entire albums to a single songwriter's work.
Willie Nelson and Rodney Crowell are two Texas singer-songwriters whose careers have often intersected since Crowell first heard Nelson's early songs on the radio and saw his shows in Houston in the mid-1960s. Willie first recorded a Rodney Crowell song in 1983 and last did so 40 years later for 2024's The Border.
Produced by Nelson's longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon and featuring an amazing backing band of Nashville gunslingers accompanying Nelson's vocals and inspired guitar work on Trigger, the album handpicks 12 songs from the last 50 years, including the title track as a duet between Nelson and Crowell.
From early tracks like 1976's "Banks Of The Old Bandera" (recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker) and 1981's "Shame On The Moon" (a hit for Bob Seger) to 90s tracks like "What Kind Of Love," (co-written by Will Jennings based on a Roy Orbison melody), "Stuff That Works" (co-written with Guy Clark), from early 2000's cuts written for hit albums by Keith Urban and Tim McGraw to four cuts from Crowell's beloved 2010s albums and a cut released as recently as 2021.
Tracklist
Side A
A1. What Kind Of Love
A2. Banks Of The Old Bandera
A3. The Fly Boy & The Kid
A4. Forty Miles From Nowhere
A5. I Wouldn't Be Me Without You
A6. Making Memories Of Us
Side B
B1. Oh What A Beautiful World (With Rodney Crowell)
B2. Open Season For My Heart
B3. Shame On The Moon
B4. She's Back In Town
B5. Still Learning How To Fly
B6. Stuff That Works
UPC: 198028872713
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 4.25.25
Format: LP Vinyl