Willie Nelson

The Red-Headed Stranger postponed the six performances due to an unspecified illness. In March, Nelson released "Naked Willie," a 17-track set of recordings from the late 1960s that were stripped down to the way they were originally heard in the studio ...

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 NM Naked Willie by Willie Nelson. Lots of casual fans believe that Willie sprang out of the Outlaw era of the 1970s, along with Waylon and Jerry Jeff and the boys. Many are unaware that he made a bunch of records in the 1960s. ...

By LindaLee Their collaboration goes public with NAKED WILLIE, a 17-track collection of songs written and recorded  by an aspiring young songwriter named Willie Nelson for RCA Records in Nashville, between 1966 and 1970.  NAKED WILLIE lays bare his original vision of those songs for the first time...

 OH In the days before his Red Headed Stranger, Nelson didn't have full control over the sound of his recordings. Orchestration and backing vocals were sometimes thickly applied, often resulting in overly busy arrangements. Those decisions made commercial ...

By LindaLee Paul W. Dennis www.the9513.com   Being among the oldest contributors to this blog (born in 52), I am one of the few who remembers hearing Willie Nelson’s recordings on the radio during the period he recorded for RCA (1965-70). Even though he had no major hits while on RCA, Willie was greatly res...

By LindaLee The great reviews for Willie Nelson’s, ‘Naked’ album, due in stores tomorrow, keep coming in. Here’s one from Matt Bjorke, of www.roughstock.com, who likes it as much as I do: www.roughstock.com “After “Crazy” became a success and Willie had recorded sides for a few Liberty Records albums an...

By LindaLee Naked Willie is that rarest case where an artist reimagining his work actually does — work that is. In un-producing the original recordings, it also reveals that Willie Nelson was writing world-class songs long before Red Headed Stranger, even if it didn’t always show up in the way that th...

 OH This has been particularly true in the past year as the icon's 75th birthday spawned numerous retrospectives and compilations, including the 30th Anniversary Legacy edition of Stardust and the four-disc career retrospective One Hell Of A Ride. ...

Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson, Naked and Clothed Houston Press Sun Spin: Willie Nelson JamBase Music Review: Willie Nelson - Naked Willie Blogcritics.org

By LindaLee If you spend any time with Mickey Raphael, or read articles, you realize right away what a big Willie Nelson fan he is.    Think about it — for over thirty years, Mickey has been standing beside Willie Nelson on stage,  eyes focused on Willie.  That’s a lot of musical bonding.

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By LindaLee Naked Willie is due March 17. I know, the “Naked Willie” thought is a bit off-putting. But the album title refers to the music, not to Nelson’s body. This concept came from Willie’s longtime harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, who was listening to early Nelson tracks on RCA recorded in Nashvil...

By Brody Vercher In the latest Rolling Stone, Vanessa Grigoriadis notes that aside from Willie Nelson’s project with Asleep at the Wheel, he has another album slated for early ‘09 titled Naked Willie. It’ll be produced by his harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, and consist of his RCA recordings from 1966 t...