Country Music (Remastered 2026) Willie Nelson

• 1 Man With The Blues (Remastered) 02:18
• 2 Seaman's Blues (Remastered) 03:22
• 3 Dark as a Dungeon (Remastered) 04:50
• 4 Gotta Walk Alone (Remastered) 02:14
• 5 Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (Remastered) 03:20
• 6 My Baby's Gone (Remastered) 05:06
• 7 Freight Train Boogie (Remastered) 02:39
• 8 Satisfied Mind (Remastered) 03:52
• 9 You Done Me Wrong (Remastered) 03:13
• 10 Pistol Packin' Mama (Remastered) 02:36
• 11 Ocean of Diamonds (Remastered) 03:37
• 12 Drinking Champagne (Remastered) 03:43
• 13 I Am a Pilgrim (Remastered) 04:52
• 14 House of Gold (Remastered) 04:44
• 15 Nobody's Fault But Mine (Remastered) 04:27
• Total Runtime 54:53

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Willie Nelson Takes It Back to the Roots!

HighTone Records opens the year with a return to the roots from one of America’s most enduring and respected song interpreters: Willie Nelson. Originally released in 2010, Country Music captures Nelson revisiting the traditional country songs that shaped his musical identity, delivered with warmth, restraint, and unmistakable soul.

Produced by T Bone Burnett, the GRAMMY®-nominated collection (Best Americana Album) strips the music down to its essence, allowing space, feel, and songcraft to lead. Nelson brings a deeply personal touch to 15 country standards, ranging from Hank Williams’ “House of Gold” and Ernest Tubb’s “Seaman’s Blues” to his own early single, “Man with the Blues.”

Country Music presents Nelson as both interpreter and storyteller, honoring the tradition while making each song entirely his own. The Washington Post praised the album as “a calm, contemplative, and remarkably consistent album,” highlighting the quiet power of these timeless performances.

The album features interpretations of classic songs such as “Dark as a Dungeon,” “Satisfied Mind,” and “I Am a Pilgrim,” alongside Nelson’s 1959 composition “Man with the Blues,” offering a reflective look at the foundations of country music through the voice of one of its greatest ambassadors.

"a calm, contemplative and remarkably consistent album", praising specially the performance of "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down": "while Nelson's voice remains front and center throughout, Burnett's fingerprints are all over 'Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down.' It's a traditional hymn that nudges Nelson out of his easy-breezy comfort zone, placing those warm, generous pipes in an eerie new context. The musicians barely touch their instruments as they creep along to the song's phantom pulse". (Washington Post)

"It’s a long way from "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain", "On the Road Again" and "Crazy", and has none of the sparing tension of his finest works like Red Headed Stranger. But the great news is that his greatest asset – that wonderfully persuasive and uniquely distinctive voice – remains perfectly intact, and that alone is cause enough to make it an album to be cherished... Nelson delivers hardy material like traditional "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down" and "I Am a Pilgrim" with such wizened assurance, it’s impossible not to feel the love". (BBC Music)

Willie Nelson, vocals, gut-string acoustic guitar Buddy Miller, electric guitar, vocal harmonies (tracks 5, 6, 8, 9) Chris Sharp, acoustic guitar, vocal harmonies (track 11) Dennis Crouch, acoustic bass Ronnie McCoury, mandolin Riley Baugus, banjo Russell Pahl, pedal steel Stuart Duncan, fiddle Shad Cobb, fiddle (tracks 2, 13, 15) Mickey Raphael, harmonica Jim Lauderdale, vocal harmonies (tracks 1, 2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

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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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