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The Essential Willie Nelson | 
 enlarge | Artist: Willie Nelson
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
Buy New: $12.80
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 1610
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 696998674028
EAN: 0696998674028
ASIN: B00008BXK3
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Night Life | | • | Hello Walls | | • | Crazy | | • | Funny How Time Slips Away | | • | I Never Cared for You | | • | The Party's Over | | • | Good Times | | • | Me And Paul | | • | Shotgun Willie | | • | Bloody Mary Morning | | • | Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain | | • | Good Hearted Woman (with Waylon Jennings) | | • | If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time | | • | Uncloudy Day | | • | Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys (with Waylon Jennings) | | • | Georgia on My Mind | | • | Blue Skies | | • | All of Me | | • | Heartbreak Hotel (with Leon Russell) | | • | Help Me Make It Through the Night | | • | Whiskey River (live) | | • | Stay a Little Longer (live) |
Disc 2
| • | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | | • | Faded Love (with Ray Price) | | • | On the Road Again | | • | Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground | | • | Always on My Mind | | • | Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning | | • | Pancho & Lefty (with Merle Haggard) | | • | To All the Girls I've Loved Before (with Julio Iglesias) | | • | City of New Orleans | | • | Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles) | | • | Forgiving You Was Easy | | • | Highwayman | | • | Living in the Promiseland | | • | Nothing I Can Do About It Now | | • | Graceland | | • | Everywhere I Go (with Emmylou Harris) | | • | Slow Dancing (U2 featuring Willie Nelson, Mickey Raphael on harmonica) | | • | Mendocino County Line (with Lee Ann Womack) | | • | One Time Too Many (with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith) (previously unreleased) |
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Amazon.com
With 41 tracks drawn from nine record labels, the two-disc Essential Willie Nelson is impressive in its breadth. Disc one is simply superb; it begins with 1961's "Night Life," recorded for the obscure Bellaire label, and moves on to several of Nelson's early 1960s Liberty recordings, an overlooked gem recorded for Monument in 1964 ("I Never Cared for You"), a cherry-picked selection of his RCA and Atlantic sides, and finally his mid-1970s hits for Columbia (where he found his greatest chart success, beginning, in 1975, with the No. 1 single "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"). Disc two, however, is hit-or-miss. Classics like "On the Road Again," "Pancho & Lefty," and "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" are offset by such lesser material as "To All The Girls I've Loved Before" (recorded with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias), the phoned-in "City of New Orleans," and the sounds-better-on-paper "Highwayman" collaboration with Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. (Just because they all made it to No. 1 doesn't make them "essential.") Nelson's two best albums of the 1990s, Across the Borderline and Teatro, are represented by a paltry two songs. The disc ends with collaborations with U2, Lee Ann Womack, and Steven Tyler and Aerosmith (the previously unreleased "One Time Too Many"). None is particularly worthy of a best-of collection. Still, while it doesn't quite live up to its billing, the Essential Willie Nelson offers an excellent career overview of one of country music's true legends. --David Hill
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 the essential willie nelson December 18, 2008
we loved it. we always hate getting cds cause they have live performances and this one does not!! LOVE IT! thank you. vicki
The Essential Willie Nelson October 30, 2008
I'm an old yankee, 61, actually Irish, from Massachusetts. I've just started to develop an appreciation for classic country music. I've added Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash Essential two CD sets to my collection. They are both excellent in content and sound quality. I brought both on Amazon and as usual with Amazon I'm 100% satisified with price and delivery. Will be buying more classic country on Amazon in the near futrue.
Great CD!!! July 12, 2008
This is a great CD with lots of different music! Willie is always good but the combination with other artists and older and newer songs makes this CD special. There was stuff we hadn't heard before!
 Surprisingly Good June 10, 2008
This was a gift for my wife, and since I live with her and occasionally drive in the van with her, I have heard this CD several times. I would not call myself a big Willie Nelson fan, but I have come to appreciate his music, thanks to my wife. There are 2 CD's loaded with songs, and at the current price it is a steal. if you buy this CD you will not be disappointed....unless you hate country music.
Gotta Love Willy! February 27, 2008
Loved this set. The second cd in this set is a compilation of Willie's duets. It's excellent! This one cd is worth the price of the set!
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