Band of Brothers Willie Nelson

• 1Bring It On02:54
• 2Guitar in the Corner03:55
• 3The Wall03:29
• 4Whenever You Come Around04:13
• 5Wives and Girlfriends03:01
• 6I Thought I Left You03:01
• 7Send Me a Picture03:59
• 8Used to Her02:46
• 9The Git Go04:09
• 10Band of Brothers02:50
• 11Hard to Be an Outlaw03:09
• 12Crazy Like Me03:15
• 13The Songwriters03:16
• 14I've Got a Lot of Traveling to Do03:22
• Total Runtime47:19

Info for Band of Brothers

Der lang erwartete Nachfolger von 'To All The Girls...' ist knapp zwanzig Jahre nach 'Spirit' von 1996 das erste Album des Künstlers, das überwiegend neues Songmaterial präsentiert. Willie Nelson, der als einflussreicher Songwriter mit seinen frühen Erfolgen Pop und Country zusammenbrachte und damit unvergessliche Standards schuf, wie z.B. 'Crazy' (für Patsy Cline), 'Hello Walls' (für Faron Young), 'Funny How Time Slips Away' (für Billy Walker), 'Night Life' (für Ray Price) und viele weitere, konnte seinem Lebenswerk neun neue Stücke hinzufügen.

Die Tracks auf 'Band Of Brothers' reichen von den introspektiven 'The Wall' und 'Send Me A Picture' bis hin zu den ausgelassenen, fast übermütigen 'Wives and Girlfriends' oder 'Used To Her' und machen es damit zu einem der persönlichsten Alben des Künstlers. Durch fünf wundervolle Interpretationen wird dieser Longplayer abgerundet. Diese ergänzen und vereinen die klangliche Struktur und die inhaltlichen Themen, darunter Songs u.a. von Vince Gill, Billie Joe Shaver und Bill Anderson.

„Unter dem Strich ein solid gutes Countrywerk, bei dem Nelson auch im 82. Lebensjahr noch seine Klasse sowohl als Songwriter als auch als Performer zeigt.“ (Good Times)

„Die Country-Sause kommt flott daher ... und bremst melancholisch-nachdenklich runter …“ (Audio)

„Es sind sauber produzierte, fein klingende ... kritische Lieder nach dem Schema des Genres.“ (stereoplay)

„14 Titel, darunter neun neue Eigenkompositionen, nur ein Duett, jede Menge Roots- und Country-Feeling und - als Manko - eine Mundharmonika im Endlosschleifen-Modus. Dennoch ein starkes Willie-Album.“ (Gunther Matejka, CounrtyMusicNews.de)

Produced by Buddy Cannon

Willie Nelson
With a six-decade career and a catalog of more than 200 albums to his credit, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelsonhas earned a permanent position in pop music’s pantheon with songs combining the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. He brought pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s with unforgettable songs like “Crazy” (Patsy Cline), “Hello Walls” (Faron Young), “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker), “Night Life” (Ray Price) and others and, by the mid-1970s, had become a superstar in his own right as a prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger, Willie’s first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist to the front ranks of popularity, making his a name familiar in country and city households across America and around-the-world.

A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert in 1985 to raise money for American family farmers. He continues to lobby against horse slaughter and produces his own blend of biodiesel fuel. An old-school road-dog troubadour with new school wheels, Willie plays concerts year-round, tirelessly touring on Honeysuckle Rose III (he rode his first two buses into the ground), taking his music and fans to places that are always worth the ride.

The very first musician to perform on the premiere episode of Austin City Limits in 1974, Willie Nelson was inducted into the inaugural class of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame by fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey on Saturday, April 26, 2014. “There would be no Austin City Limits without Willie Nelson,” McConaughey told the audience assembled at the University of Texas at Austin, the original home of what is now America’s longest-running televised music program.

Willie Nelson, who turned 81 on April 29/April 30, is an American original, a sublime singer, master tunesmith and outlaw country’s most enduring archetype.

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