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Red Headed Stranger is the eighteenth studio album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson, released in 1975.Following the success of his recordings with Atlantic Records, coupled with the negotiating skills of his manager, Neil Reshen, Nelson signed a contract with Columbia Records, the label that gave him total creative control over his works.
Red Headed Stranger is a song written by Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz, published in 1953. Originally written for Perry Como , the song was not recorded by him due to publishing issues. In 1954, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith released a version of the song on MGM Records that received good radio play.
The result was the critically acclaimed and massively popular 1975 concept album Red Headed Stranger. Although Columbia was reluctant to release an album with primarily a guitar and piano for accompaniment, Nelson and Waylon Jennings insisted.
Willie Nelson – vocals, guitar, arrangements, production; Bobbie Nelson – piano; Paul English – drums; Rex Ludwick – drums; Jody Payne – guitar; Bee Spears – bass guitar; Mickey Raphael – harmonica; Steve Fromholz – harmony vocals on "I'd Have to Be Crazy" Tom Morrell – pedal steel guitar on "That Lucky Old Sun" Phil York ...
The following is a detailed discography of all albums released by country music singer Willie Nelson, since his professional debut in 1962.Nelson's discography includes 102 studio albums (consisting of 76 solo studio albums and 26 collaborative studio albums), 14 live albums, 51 compilation albums and 41 video albums as well as the soundtracks of The Electric Horseman and Honeysuckle Rose.
Meanwhile, Exclaim! praised Nelson's guitar playing and described the band as a "small combo playing songs as timeless as (Nelson's) wonderfully idiosyncratic voice". [8] Daily Record also favored his guitar playing as well as voice, also remarking Nelson's tendence to feature covers, instead of original songwriting in his recent recordings. [ 9 ]
[36] Texas Monthly also favored the album but noted the difference with previous Nelson recordings: "Stardust blends the stark economy of Red Headed Stranger with an underlying current of church spiritualism. More often than not it works. Though the selections are all at least twenty years old, the songs withstand the test of time.
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight is compilation album by country singer Willie Nelson.The name of the album comes from the Hank Williams song of the same name.. This album is composed mostly of tracks previously issued as singles on Liberty in the early 1960s as well as two previously unissued tracks, "Tomorrow Night" and "Blue Must Be the Color of the Blues".