"Oh What A Beautiful World," Willie Nelson's new album (his 77th solo studio album and 154th overall) is an album focusing on the songs of Rodney Crowell.
Willie Nelson and Rodney Crowell are two Texas singer-songwriters whose careers have often intersected 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 Rodney Crowell song in 1983 and most recently did so 40 years later for 2024’s The Border album.
Produced by Nelson’s longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon, and featuring an amazing cast of Nashville musicians accompanying Nelson’s vocals and inspired guitar work on Trigger, the album selects 12 songs from the past 50 years, including the title track as a duet between Nelson and Crowell. From early titles like 1976’s “Banks Of The Old Bandera “ (recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker) and 1981’s ” Shame On The Moon “ (a hit for Bob Seger), to 90s titles like ” What Kind Of Love “ (co-written with Will Jennings to a Roy Orbison melody), ” Stuff That Works “ (co-written with Guy Clark), early 2000s tracks written for hit albums by Keith Urban and Tim McGraw to four tracks from Crowell’s beloved albums in the 2010s and one track released just recently, in 2021.
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