Willie Nelson - Naked Willie
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Artist: Willie NelsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-03-17
Music Label: Sony Legacy
Soundtracks:
- Bring Me Sunshine
- Following Me Around
- The Ghost
- Happiness Lives Next Door
- I Just Dropped By
- Jimmy's Road
- I Let My Mind Wander
- If You Could See What's Going Through My Mind
- Johnny One Time
- The Local Memory
- The Party's Over
- Where Do You Stand?
- When We Live Again
- What Can You Do To Me Now?
- I'm A Memory
- Sunday Morning Coming Down
- Laying My Burdens Down
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Free Music Review: Instant Classic
Hit: 5 Stars
Willie Nelson remains one of the most overcompilationified recording artists around. We've all seen his "Greatest" and his "Essential," never mind the 4,942 budget "Best of" compilations. It's enough to make any fan skeptical about any collection bearing his name.
But Naked Willie rises above most, if not all, of them. It's as essential as Red Headed Stranger, and that's seriously high praise.
Like Red Headed Stranger, Naked Willie is built on a theme. However, the theme here is related to how the material literally sounds versus its subject matter.
In this case, the theme is simply what would his songs would've sounded like were he the producer back in the 1960s and early 1970s. Back then, country stars small and big alike were given the high-gloss "Nashville sound" treatment made famous (never mind insanely popular) by Chet Atkins.
Don't get me wrong; the Nashville sound is almost always recognizable and quite often fantastic. But for every artist who was helped by all the extra strings, horns and vocals, there were those whose efforts were diminished by them. Willie Nelson clearly falls into the latter, and this CD is all about the magic that happens once those layers are stripped away. Leaving the music "naked," and yes, inspiring the CD's title.
The results are nothing short of glorious. Here, the songs are what is brought to the fore, plain and simple -- Willie and the hired hand musicians playing their brains out....Willie's vocal skills perhaps at their absolute peak....playful tunes...sad tunes...even some subjects that some could call "controversial."
Kudos to the producer and audio engineer who handled all the "unproduction" needed to make this such a treat.
I am only a "medium" Willie Nelson fan; this was a gift to me. It completely caught me off guard -- in a good way -- and i think this would be an outstanding gift for just about anyone, Willie zealot or not.
Of course, for all you hardcore Willie zealots (pun intended), the CD booklet has two -- count 'em, two -- pictures of Mr. Nelson himself in the bathtub...also naked. But don't worry: There are no John&Yoko moments here. Just an absolute legend having some fun in a bubbly tub, pleased that some of his greatest music will finally be heard the way he'd always intended for it to be. Naked.
Naked Willie Poster
After establishing himself as a major Nashville songwriter (he wrote "Crazy" for Patsy Cline, among others), Willie Nelson signed his first serious artist contract at RCA in 1964. At that time, the producers and A&R men like Chet Atkins were boss. Singers weren't allowed to select arrangements, musicians, studios - any of the key factors in making the records the artist has in mind. Willie was constantly frustrated by the syrupy strings, vocal group choruses and generally "slick" final product.Fast forward to 2008. Willie and long-time harmonica player Mickey Raphael are casually wondering what those records would or could sound like if only the multi-track tapes could be tracked down and the songs re-mixed with the original intent in mind. Gone are the strings and gangs of back-up singers. Gone, in fact is most of the production that always "ruined" the songs.
NAKED WILLIE is a new collection of 17 vintage RCA sides - spanning 1966-1970 - FINALLY the Willie way.
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