Willie Nelson – One Hell of a Ride (4-CD)
Product Details
Fifty-plus years of American songwriting runs through these four discs, from the early Nashville sessions where Willie struggled to get producers to hear his vision, through the Shotgun Willie breakthrough, the Outlaw movement he helped ignite alongside Waylon Jennings, and deep into his late-career collaborations and jazz explorations. He wrote "Crazy" and "Funny How Time Slips Away" before most people knew his name, and never stopped writing after they did.
This box contains a wealth of American music, plus a couple of jewels--Django Reinhardt's "Nuages" and Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come"--from beyond these shores. Here are 100 songs commemorating Willie Nelson's incredible journey by going full circle. "When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song," leading off Disc One, was recorded in 1954 or '55; it is reprised on Disc Four's final track, updated in 2007. Between those years Nelson, a Depression era kid who grew up dirt poor in Abbott, Texas, became one of the world's most recognizable figures, in the music/entertainment business or otherwise. One Hell Of A Ride is, quite simply, the most all-encompassing Nelson retrospective ever assembled.
Tracklist
Disc 1
Disc 2
Disc 3
Disc 4
UPC: 886971391527
Label: Sony Legacy
Release Date: 4.1.08
Format: CD