Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
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Free Music Review: This Album trancends Country! #184 on Rolling Stone 500
Hit: 5 Stars
Next month I will be going on a trip to the Moon with Chinese astronauts on their Lunar Expedition. I am only allowed to bring 2 CDs, These are the 2 I'm bringing : Plastic Ono Band /John Lennon and Red Headed Stranger / Willie Nelson.
Willie Puts so much feeling and soul in this album, he takes his time letting the notes,harmonics and spirit in the album breathe. You can really feel his story of the Red Headed Stranger from Blue Rock Montana his rebellious and lonesome soul making its way out west. Not a commercial album(thank God) and not like the Country "music" you hear as background noise at work. If you dont already own it then you are wasting your time.This is how you do it>>> Put on a good pair of headphones, lie down in your bed, no one around, and I PROMISE you that your appreciation of music will change forever. Track 12: Can I Sleep In Your Arms is breathtaking. The spanish guitars in this album is something to listen to. This album is literally going to the moon!
Free Music Review: Only memories remain.
Hit: 5 Stars
This was Willie Nelson's breakthrough album, released in 1975, when Willie was 42 years. It is a concept album, telling a story about the Wild West in 1901. The basic storyline is about a preacher who kill his wife and her lover, goes on the run and is eventually redeemed by the love of a good woman. The instrumentation is very sparse, usually featuring just acoustic guitar, piano and drums. Some of the songs are very short, being just long enough to advance the storyline. The album is most famous for featuring Willie's first #1 hit, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain". That song is great, of course, but so is the entire album. The CD features four bonus tracks which were recorded at the same sessions but left off of the original album. They are: Johann Sebastian Bach's "Minuet in G", Hank Williams' "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)", Bob Wills' "A Maiden's Prayer" and Pee Wee King's "Bonaparte's Retreat". This CD is a must get for Willie Nelson fans.Free Music Review: A very scary kind of "mellow"!
Hit: 5 Stars
My admiration for this collection is unbounded. It surely stunned the 1970s "country" music world of sentimental, overproduced string arrangements. But I find it bizarre that the Amazon reviewer calls the album mellow and childlike. The melodies are indeed gentle and lyrical, but the arrangement of songs tells of wild despair ("He cried like a baby, / He screamed like a panther in the middle of the night") and psychosis--a preacher, rejected by his lover, becomes a serial killer (one woman dies for daring to touch the horse once ridden by his murdered beloved). This is NOT mellow stuff, and much of its power comes from rediscovering the scary, dark energy of old country murder ballads. Does the sequence end with new love and redemption? Hard to say. But for all the prettiness, Willie's great album is closer to the world of the Harry Smith anthology and Dock Boggs, the kind of stuff Greil Marcus had in mind when he coined the phrase "old, weird America."Free Music Review: The Old Is New Again
Hit: 5 Stars
Sometime in the mid-1970's a friend called me to come listen to this new album by this "new" singer. It was Willie Nelson and "Red Headed Stranger." It was a somewhat new sound for Willie Nelson, but I told my friend I'd been listening to Willie Nelson since the late 1950's, and that Red-Headed Stranger had been recorded originally in 1959 by David Houston (who later had one smash hit, "Almost Persuaded.") The new being old aside, this remastered CD is classic Willie, singing and playing as only he can do. The masterful harmonica work by Mickey Rafael blends perfectly with Willie's voice and his guitar, from which he only needs to pluck two or three notes for you to know this is genuine Willie.
This album is a special showcase for the unique talents of a modern-day master displaying his best.
Free Music Review: Genius from an American Master
Hit: 5 Stars
Genius and undying brilliance like the bright lights of Denver--Red Headed Stranger is so perfect it at times borders on timeless otherworldliness. Wake up America, this is a quintessential masterpiece from one of the greatest music legends the country has produced. If ever we as a nation grow tired of Francis Scott Key's anthem, consider it justice for all if Willie wrote the next one. Red Headed Stranger is the one to take with you through all your stops and struggles in life. Themes of religion, sin, love, and salvation loom large here like a Texas sky; realize and recognize Willie as The Apostle years before Robert Duvall's masterful performance. Classical in its form, country stripped bare from the bars to the dusty road, gospel in its tone, blues in its essence, this recording transcends comparison.