Willie Nelson's Greatest Hits & Some That Will Be

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This disc has been remastered, and three tracks have been added. But even before that it was an excellent collection. For the casual fan, every track that should be here is here. It may be missing some of his recent stuff, but the classics are all included. The love songs, the cowboy songs, and everything inbetween. These hits and "Stardust" might be all you'll ever need from "Willie". Timeless.

Willie has had a long and distinguished career but the period covered by this compilation was particularly successful. He had plenty of success during the rest of the eighties with such classics as Always on my mind, City of New Orleans, To all the girls I've loved before and Seven Spanish angels, but you must look elsewhere for them. Even without them, this is a very strong compilation.

Despite recording some excellent music in the sixties and early seventies, Willie only became a major star after he signed to Columbia in 1975. He immediately hit big with his first album (Red headed stranger) and the single from it, a cover of Blue eyes crying in the rain (an old Roy Acuff song) that became a major country and pop hit in America. Many other hits followed including a lot of duets -so many that you could fill a boxed set with them.

Willie's classic solo country hits (some covers, some originals) are represented by If you've got the money I've got the time,...Read more

This CD is the definitive collection of some of Willie's works from the '70's and '80's... "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground" is excellent, and many are standards that speak to the creative and comforting nature that is Willie...

If you are getting to know Willie, this is the CD to start with...