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On April 30, 2003 Willie Nelson turns 70. To celebrate the occasion, Willie will release several high profile titles over the course of the year. Beginning the year-long campaign is this, the Essential Willie Nelson, a 2-CD career-spanning anthology -starting in 1961 with his original versions of the classics. The Essentials Willie Nelson is also the only place you can get Willie's newest collaboration- "One Time Too Many" with Aerosmith!
On April 30, 2003 Willie Nelson turns 70. To celebrate the occasion, Willie will release several high profile titles over the course of the year. Beginning the year-long campaign is this, the Essential Willie Nelson, a 2-CD career-spanning anthology -starting in 1961 with his original versions of the classics. The Essentials Willie Nelson is also the only place you can get Willie's newest collaboration- "One Time Too Many" with Aerosmith!
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Format: CD
Label: SONY
Catalog: 86740
Rel. Date: 04/01/2003
UPC: 696998674028

Essential Willie Nelson
Artist: Willie Nelson
Format: CD
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On April 30, 2003 Willie Nelson turns 70. To celebrate the occasion, Willie will release several high profile titles over the course of the year. Beginning the year-long campaign is this, the Essential Willie Nelson, a 2-CD career-spanning anthology -starting in 1961 with his original versions of the classics. The Essentials Willie Nelson is also the only place you can get Willie's newest collaboration- "One Time Too Many" with Aerosmith!

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''The Essential Willie Nelson'' is a two-disc compilation of Willie Nelson songs. This digitally-remastered compilation covers five decades of Nelson's recording career, and is part of Sony's Essential series of compilation albums. - Wikipedia

One key to Willie Nelson's iconicity is the intimacy of his best music. So what'swith the bombast that lards The Essential Willie Nelson? Columbia/Legacy haslicensed tracks from every era of Nelson's career, from his first single, 1963's"Night Life," to recent work on the Island and Lost Highway labels.The first disc reels along nicely enough, but the second disc keeps bumpinginto potholes. Trying to squeeze a prolific 40-year career into two-and-a-halfhours might account for some of this, but not as much as the compilers' apparentweakness for grandstanding moments that betray Nelson's greatest gift.

Nelson himself, it's worth noting, hasn't always helped. Not that he ever stopsbeing Willie, an avuncular master even in the face of Julio Iglesias. More thanever, "To All the Girls" stands as a study in contrasts, with Nelson'scard sharp canniness making Julio sound like a stool pigeon just emerging froman oil slick. But at least it has some kitsch value, and was a hit; not so theother misfired collaborations here, from mundane U2 summit to Kid Rock fiasco.Speaking of duets, too bad there's nothing here from superb duet albums withWebb Pierce (1982's In the Jailhouse Now) or Hank Snow (1985's Brand on My Heart)?Not to mention low-key but illuminating records like 1999's brilliant instrumental-standardsset Night and Day, or 2001's delightful Rainbow Connection? Honest, people,no one's ever covered Kermit the Frog better, a fact as essential to WillieNelson's greatness as anything you'll find here.
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