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One Hell of a Ride [Box Set] [Box] [PA]

Willie Nelson
Release Date: 04/01/2008
Original Release:  2008
# of Discs:   4
J&R Item # 1018049_CD
UPC # 886971391527
Label: Legacy Recordings
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Disc: 1
1. When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. No Place For Me sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. Man With the Blues sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. Nite Life sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. Hello Walls sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. Funny How Time Slips Away sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. Crazy sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. Half a Man sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Mr. Record Man sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. One in a Row sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. Party's Over, The sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. Texas in My Soul sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. Good Times sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. Sweet Memories sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. Little Things sound samples  real  |  windows media
16. Any Old Arms Won't Do sound samples  real  |  windows media
17. Everybody's Talkin' sound samples  real  |  windows media
18. Pins and Needles (In My Heart) sound samples  real  |  windows media
19. Once More With Feeling sound samples  real  |  windows media
20. I Gotta Get Drunk sound samples  real  |  windows media
21. Laying My Burdens Down sound samples  real  |  windows media
22. What Can You Do to Me Now sound samples  real  |  windows media
23. Kneel at the Foot of Jesus sound samples  real  |  windows media
24. I'm a Memory sound samples  real  |  windows media
25. Family Bible sound samples  real  |  windows media
26. Summer of Roses sound samples  real  |  windows media
27. Yesterday's Wine sound samples  real  |  windows media
28. Me and Paul sound samples  real  |  windows media
29. Words Don't Fit the Picture, The sound samples  real  |  windows media

Disc: 2
1. Good Heart Woman - (featuring Waylon Jennings) sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. You Left a Long, Long Time Ago sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. She's Not For You sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. You Ought to Hear Me Cry sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. It Should Be Easier Now sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys - (featuring Waylon Jennings) sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. If You Can Touch Her at All - (featuring Waylon Jennings) sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. I Can Get Off on You - (featuring Waylon Jennings) sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Blackjack County Chain sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. Johnny One Time sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. Bring Me Sunshine sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. Shotgun Willie sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. Sad Songs and Waltzes sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. Troublemaker, The sound samples  real  |  windows media
16. Uncloudy Day sound samples  real  |  windows media
17. Blood Mary Morning sound samples  real  |  windows media
18. I Still Can't Believe You're Gone sound samples  real  |  windows media
19. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain sound samples  real  |  windows media
20. I'd Have to Be Crazy sound samples  real  |  windows media
21. If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time sound samples  real  |  windows media
22. Always Late (With Your Kisses) sound samples  real  |  windows media
23. She's Gone, Gone, Gone sound samples  real  |  windows media
24. I Never Go Around Mirrors sound samples  real  |  windows media
25. Stardust sound samples  real  |  windows media
26. Georgia on My Mind sound samples  real  |  windows media
27. Song For You, A (Live) - (live) sound samples  real  |  windows media

Disc: 3
1. Whiskey River (Live) - (live) sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. Till I Gain Control Again (Live) - (live) sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. Stay a Little Longer (Live) - (live) sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. Heartbreak Hotel - (featuring Leon Russell) sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) - (featuring Leon Russell) sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. Help Me Make It Through the Night sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. Midnight Rider sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Crazy Arms - (featuring Ray Price) sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. On the Road Again sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. Mona Lisa sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. Always on My Mind sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. Old Friends - (featuring Ray Price/Roger Miller) sound samples  real  |  windows media
16. Pancho & Lefty - (featuring Merle Haggard) sound samples  real  |  windows media
17. Reasons to Quit - (featuring Merle Haggard) sound samples  real  |  windows media
18. In the Jailhouse Now - (featuring Webb Pierce) sound samples  real  |  windows media
19. Why Do I Have to Choose - (featuring Waylon Jennings) sound samples  real  |  windows media
20. City of New Orleans sound samples  real  |  windows media
21. To All the Girls I've Loved Before - (featuring Julio Iglesias) sound samples  real  |  windows media
22. Three Days - (featuring Faron Young) sound samples  real  |  windows media
23. Touch Me - (featuring Faron Young) sound samples  real  |  windows media

Disc: 4
1. Write Your Own Songs sound samples  real  |  windows media
2. Heart of Gold sound samples  real  |  windows media
3. I'm Movin' On - (featuring Hank Snow) sound samples  real  |  windows media
4. Seven Spanish Angels - (featuring Ray Charles) sound samples  real  |  windows media
5. Highwayman - (featuring Johnny Cash/Kris Kristofferson/Waylon Jennings) sound samples  real  |  windows media
6. Living in the Promise Land sound samples  real  |  windows media
7. What a Wonderful World sound samples  real  |  windows media
8. Country Willie sound samples  real  |  windows media
9. Graceland sound samples  real  |  windows media
10. Valentine sound samples  real  |  windows media
11. What Was It You Wanted sound samples  real  |  windows media
12. Still Is Still Moving to Me sound samples  real  |  windows media
13. Too Sick to Pray sound samples  real  |  windows media
14. Everywhere I Go sound samples  real  |  windows media
15. My Own Peculiar Way sound samples  real  |  windows media
16. Nuages sound samples  real  |  windows media
17. Rainbow Connection sound samples  real  |  windows media
18. Mendocino County Line - (featuring Lee Ann Womack) sound samples  real  |  windows media
19. Harder They Come, The sound samples  real  |  windows media
20. Bubbles in My Beer sound samples  real  |  windows media
21. When I've Sung My Last Hillbilly Song sound samples  real  |  windows media

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Performer: Willie Nelson
Artist: Waylon Jennings; Leon Russell; Ray Price; Roger Miller; Merle Haggard; Webb Pierce; Julio Iglesias; Faron Young; Hank Snow; Ray Charles; Johnny Cash; Kris Kristofferson; Lee Ann Womack
Producer: Al Quaglieri (Compilation)
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: There have been other Willie Nelson box sets in the past, but the four-disc ONE HELL OF A RIDE, released just before the country icon's 75th birthday, leaves every other collection in the dust. A truly career-encompassing anthology, it covers more than 50 years of music, from Willie's 1950s indie singles all the way up to the 21st century. While the blockbusters are here ("Always on My Mind," "On the Road Again," etc.), the real public service performed by this box is reaching back to great Nelson albums from the '60s that have long been out of print, and scooping up some of their dusty gems. For instance, "One in a Row" shows that Willie could croon a countrypolitan-style tune with the best of them, while "Texas in My Soul" is an early example of the jazzy Western swing influence that has always been an undercurrent of Nelson's music. ONE HELL OF A RIDE follows the Red Headed Stranger's growth from well-groomed Nashville cat to hirsute country outlaw to grey-bearded elder statesman, cherry-picking the best of every phase along the way. Navigating Willie Nelson's immense body of recordings can be daunting even for committed fans. There is so much music and so much of it good that it's hard to keep straight, especially as each of his many eras has been compiled, collected, and reissued countless time, leading to a discography thick with redundancies -- and then there's the stubborn fact that for Willie, making music is like breathing, something that comes naturally, something that happens every day, so he keeps building upon that discography, releasing an album or two each year, which only adds to the confusion for neophytes and longtime fans alike. All of this is a roundabout way to say that there are plenty of Willie Nelson albums out there, that there's a surplus of compilations, but of all these, nothing offers such a complete, useful overview of his entire career as Columbia/Legacy's four-disc 2008 box One Hell of a Ride. This is not the first Willie box that Legacy has released, of course -- in 1995 they put out the triple-disc Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 -- but this is the first box to ever attempt a thorough overview of his career, beginning with his earliest singles for Sarg and D, running through the countrypolitan Nashville productions of his Liberty Records and his wonderfully rambling RCA recordings of the '60s, then settling into the star-making sides for Columbia in the '70s and '80s, yet the set doesn't end there, as it runs through his albums for Island and Mercury in the '90s and 2000s. For sheer scope, this beats all, but what makes One Hell of a Ride so useful is that it covers all the ground accurately, picking a blend of hits, concert staples, and relative obscurities to present a career overview that may be illuminating even for serious fans, as this tells a full, complete story with its 100 tracks Like many great stories, the details may be fudged a bit here -- on the second disc the tracks don't quite follow in chronological order -- but that doesn't matter because all this tweaking is done in service of the bigger picture, which is as it should be when a picture is this large. Listening to the whole of One Hell of a Ride, it's hard not to marvel yet again at the enormity of Willie's career. If he had only authored the standards "Nite Life," "Crazy," "Hello Walls," and "Funny How Time Slips Away," his place in history would be assured, but this set illustrates how Nelson strengthened the jazzy sophistication underpinning these tunes by digging deeper into Western swing, just as he slyly brought rock, folk, and pop flourishes into his music. By the time the Outlaw years roll around in the midst of the second disc here, his music was hard to peg -- certainly it was country, but not in the strictest definition, as it encompassed so much more, from the stark Red Headed Stranger to the lush Stardust, and what is remarkable about One Hell of a Ride is that by listening to it from beginning to end, none of these moves feel forced, all the evolutions feel natural, and the excellent fourth disc -- which neatly cherry-picks from a rollercoaster two decades of recordings -- illustrates that his evolution did not end when he achieved superstardom, but rather he kept finding new truths in music, sometimes through new tunes, sometimes by revisiting the past, as the nifty book-ending of the set with a new version of his first recording "When I've Sung My Last Hillbilly Song" makes clear. Willie will continue to build upon the legacy offered within this box, but that will not change the fact that this is the best place to learn and appreciate that legacy, and to learn to love it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Rolling Stone (p.69) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Nelson's distinctive vocal phrasing and nylon-string guitar leads peep through, providing a nice foil for the lush strings and syrupy backup choir." Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Nelson's vast, overwhelming discography has always needed a sharp edit, ONE HELL OF A RIDE certainly does the trick." Down Beat (p.78) - 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Nelson sings with an earthiness yet also a state of transcendence. He twangs with a Texas drawl but delivers impeccable melodic sublimity." Dirty Linen (p.58) - "[T]he most comprehensive and economically priced collection to ever commemorate the Red Headed Stranger's storied career....A satisfying and often revealing examination of one of America's greatest mavericks." Mojo (Publisher) (p.122) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It spans a lot of music....Willie's been many things: a great country-pop writer; an outlaw who helped change Nashville; and a performer making alt country before anyone knew what alt country really was." Blender (Magazine) (p.81) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his sanely ambitious, provisionally definitive 100-track box does country music's reigning survivor justice." Pitchfork (Website) - "[T]he leathery texture of his voice is immediately recognizable on the first disc as it is on the final disc, as idiosyncratic as Cash's grave baritone or Elvis Presley's full-bodied croon..." -- Rating: 8.6 Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The inclusion of plenty of duets, with the likes of Merle Haggard, Wayon Jennings, Leon Russell, Webb Pierce, Ray Charles, Faron Young, Hank Snow and Julio Iglesias make for particularly enjoyable listening."
Willie Nelson began working in a conventional Nashville style and had great success as the songwriter of Faron Young's hit "Hello Walls" and others, but he was initially unable to make it as a performer. In the 1970s, he and Waylon Jennings made history with their outlaw country sound and image, growing their hair long and utilizing a raw, rock-influenced sound that endeared them to millions of country fans and rockers alike. Subsequently, Nelson ventured into Sinatra territory with STARDUST, an album of standards that became a huge success and established him as a singer who transcended genre boundaries. Throughout the '80s, '90s, and into the 21st century, he crossed over into pop and back again continually, even releasing an album of reggae covers, working with artists as diverse as Julio Iglesias and Ryan Adams.
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