A Beautiful Time Willie Nelson

• 1 I'll Love You Till The Day I Die 04:11
• 2 My Heart Was A Dancer 03:10
• 3 Energy Follows Thought 03:17
• 4 Dreamin' Again 03:55
• 5 I Don't Go To Funerals 02:27
• 6 A Beautiful Time 04:55
• 7 We're Not Happy (Till You're Not Happy) 03:16
• 8 Dusty Bottles 03:30
• 9 Me And My Partner 02:11
• 10 Tower Of Song 04:59
• 11 Live Every Day 03:12
• 12 Don't Touch Me There 02:38
• 13 With A Little Help From My Friends 03:42
• 14 Leave You With A Smile 03:44
• Total Runtime 49:07

Info zu A Beautiful Time

Auf dem neuen Studioalbum von Willie Nelson "A Beautiful Time" sind unter anderem fünf neue Kompositionen von Willie Nelson und Buddy Cannon zu hören. Außerdem haben einige von Nashvilles besten Songwritern neue Songs zu dem Album beigesteuert. Zwei besondere Coverversionen runden die Titelliste ab: Willies Interpretation von Leonard Cohens “Tower of Song” und seine Version des Beatles-Klassikers “With a Little Help from My Friends.”

Für „A Beautiful Time“, das von Willies langjährigem musikalischen Mitstreiter Buddy Cannon produziert wurde, haben sich illustre Gäste im Tonstudio eingefunden. Zu Willie Nelson und seiner Lieblingsgitarre Trigger gesellen sich Jim „Moose“ Brown (B-3 Orgel, Wurlitzer), Fred Elringham (Drums), Barry Bales (Kontrabass), Bob Terry (E-Gitarre, Akustikgitarre, Steel Guitar), James Mitchell (E-Gitarre) und Mickey Raphael an der Mundharmonika. Melonie Cannon singt auf fünf Songs die Background-Vocals.

Die Band ist bei den Tracks „My Heart was a Dancer“, „Energy Follows Thought“, „Dreamin‘ Again“, „Dusty Bottles“, „Me and My Partner“ und „Don’t Touch Me There“ zu hören. Auch auf „I’ll Love You Till The Day I Die“ und „I Don’t Go To Funerals“, den wohl emotionalsten Songs des neuen Longplayers, wird Willie von diesen Musikern begleitet.

Eine anderes Line-Up wählte der Künstler für die Interpretation der beiden Shawn-Camp-Songs “„A Beautiful Time“, „We’re Not Happy (Till You’re Not Happy)“ und seiner Fassung der Lennon-McCartney Komposition „With a Little Help from My Friends”. Hier begleiten ihn Bobby Terry (Akustikgitarre, E-Gitarre), Catherine Marx (Wurlitzer, Piano, B-3 Orgel), Mike Johnson (Steel Guitar), Chad Cromwell (drums), Lonnie Wilson (Drums, Percussion) and Kevin „Swine“ Grantt (Kontrabass).

Im vergangenen Jahr veröffentlichte Legacy Recordings die beiden Willie Nelson-Alben „That’s Life“ und „The Willie Nelson Family“. „That’s Life“, Willies musikalische Hommage an Frank Sinatra, debütierte auf Platz 1 der Billboard Jazz Albums Charts und den Traditional Jazz Albums Charts. Aktuell ist das Album im Rennen um einen Grammy in der Sparte „Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album“.

Willie Nelson, Gesang, Gitarre
Bobbie Nelson, Gesang
Lukas Nelson, Gitarre
Micah Nelson, Gitarre
Bob Terry, Gitarre
James Mitchell, Gitarre
Jim "Moose" Brown, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer, Keyboards
Barry Bales, Kontrabass
Fred Eltringham, Schlagzeug
Mickey Raphael, Mundharmonika
Melonie Cannon, Hintergrundgesang
Bobbie Terry, Elektrische und Akustische Gitarre, Steel Gitarre (Track 6, 7)
Catherine Marx, Keyboards (Track 6, 7)
Mike Johnson, Steel Gitarre (Track 6, 7)
Kevin "Swine" Grantt, Kontrabass (Track 6, 7)
Chad Cromwell, Schlagzeug (Track 6, 7)
Lonnie Wilson, Schlagzeug (Track 6, 7)

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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