Willie Nelson, The Essential Willie Nelson - 54m 25s

Tracks & Durations

1. Me And Paul	3:51
2. Yesterday's Wine	3:15
3. December Day	2:19
4. Blody Mary Morning	3:19
5. Healing Hands Of Time	2:21
6. Darkness On The Face Of The Earth	2:28
7. Funny How Time Slips Away	2:42
8. Family Bible	3:13
9. My Own Peculiar Way	2:57
10. Mr. Record Man	2:14
11. I Gotta Get Drunk	2:16
12. Hello Walls	2:12
13. Sweet Memories	3:14
14. Night Life	2:26
15. Waltz Across Texas	2:28
16. The Party's Over	2:31
17. Some Other World	2:14
18. Goin' Home	3:09
19. Once More With Feeling	2:38
20. Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles and Scenes	2:28

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Review

Willie Nelson recorded 11 albums for RCA between 1964 and 1971, but he has always discounted those recordings as victims of a Nashville industry that didn't understand what he was trying to do. Colin Escott, who put together this 1995 anthology, argues in the CD booklet that Nelson has oversimplified this period of his career. Sure, there were miscalculations as producer Chet Atkins tried to make Nelson's quirky vocal phrasing palatable to the country radio of the day, but there were also a fair number of artistic triumphs. After all, Escott points out, Nelson first recorded such classic compositions as "Bloody Mary Morning," "Me and Paul," "Funny How Time Slips Away," "The Party's Over," and "Phases, Stages, Circles, Cycles and Scenes" for RCA. Those five songs plus 15 others make up The Essential Willie Nelson, which skims the cream from that part of his career. Escott for the most part shies away from Atkins's most overproduced debacles and emphasizes the more understated sessions where Nelson did things "My Own Peculiar Way," as one song put it. --Geoffrey Himes

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