Oh What A Beautiful World

Description

"Oh What A Beautiful World" the new album by Willie Nelson (his 77th solo studio album and 154th album overall) is an album that focuses on songs by Rodney Crowell. Willie Nelson and Rodney Crowell are two Texas singer-songwriters whose careers have often crossed paths since Crowell first heard Nelson's early songs on the radio and attended his shows in Houston in the mid-1960s. Willie first recorded a song by Rodney Crowell in 1983 and did so for the last time 40 years later for the 2024 album The Border. Produced by Buddy Cannon, Nelson's longtime collaborator, and featuring a stunning group of Nashville musicians accompanying Nelson's voice and his inspired guitar work on Trigger, the album selects 12 songs from the last 50 years, including the title track as a duet between Nelson and Crowell. From early titles like "Banks Of The Old Bandera" from 1976 (recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker) and "Shame On The Moon" from 1981 (a hit for Bob Seger), to 90s tracks like "What Kind Of Love" (co-written by Will Jennings based on a melody by Roy Orbison), "Stuff That Works" (co-written with Guy Clark), early 2000s pieces written for hit albums by Keith Urban and Tim McGraw, to four tracks from Crowell's beloved 2010s albums and a piece released very recently, in 2021.