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Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson LP
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  • Artist: Willie Nelson
  • Format: LP
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 886973357316
  • Item Number: SBG335731
  • Release date: 10/14/2008
  • 1. Time of the Preacher
  • 2. I Couldn't Believe It Was True
  • 3. Time of the Preacher (Theme)
  • 4. Medley: Blue Rock Montana/Red Headed Stranger
  • 5. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
  • 6. Red Headed Stranger
  • 7. Time of the Preacher (Theme)
  • 8. Just as I Am
  • 9. Denver
  • 10. O'er the Waves
  • 11. Down Yonder
  • 12. Can I Sleep in Your Arms?
  • 13. Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)
  • 14. Hands on the Wheel
  • 15. Bandera
  • 16. Bach Minuet in G [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 17. Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 18. A Maiden's Prayer [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
  • 19. Bonaparte's Retreat [Previously Unreleased][Bonus Track]
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Red Headed Stranger by Willie Nelson on LP


Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger perhaps is the strangest blockbuster country produced, a concept album about a preacher on the run after murdering his departed wife and her new lover, told entirely with brief song-poems and utterly minimal backing. It's defiantly anticommercial and it demands intense concentration -- all reasons why nobody thought it would be a hit, a story related in Chet Flippo's liner notes to the 2000 reissue. It was a phenomenal blockbuster, though, selling millions of copies, establishing Nelson as a superstar recording artist in its own right. For all its success, it still remains a prickly, difficult album, though, making the interspersed concept of Phases and Stages sound shiny in comparison. It's difficult because it's old-fashioned, sounding like a tale told around a cowboy campfire. Now, this all reads well on paper, and there's much to admire in Nelson's intimate gamble, but it's really elusive, as the themes get a little muddled and the tunes themselves are a bit bare. It's undoubtedly distinctive -- and it sounds more distinctive with each passing year -- but it's strictly an intellectual triumph and, after a pair of albums that were musically and intellectually sound, it's a bit of a letdown, no matter how successful it was. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi
  • Artist: Willie Nelson
  • Format: LP
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 886973357316
  • Item Number: SBG335731
  • Release date: 10/14/2008
  • Label: Legacy
  • Genre: Country
  • Style: Traditional Country, Progressive Country, Outlaw Country
  • Album Time: 33:30

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  • Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson LP
Red Headed Stranger Willie Nelson LP