Willie Nelson

LIMITED EDITION CLASSIC LPS

180 GRAM VINYL AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKS

Age 90 at this writing, Willie Nelson is one of the most versatile, enduring, and influential talents in country music. As a songwriter and a performer, he played a vital role in the development of the idiom. Growing up in central Texas, he was impacted by a wide range of musical influences, such as the Texas honky-tonk of Ernest Tubb, the western swing of Bob Wills, and eventhe German-American polka bands. He had begun writing songs as a little boy, and by the end of the era he was starting to turn out fully realized masterpieces such as “Night Life” and “Misery Mansion.” This release presents Nelson’s underrated debut LP, …And Then I Wrote, originally issued in 1962 by the Liberty label.

PERSONNEL:

• WILLIE NELSON, vocals and guitar, plus:

• ON A1, A2, A6, B3, B4 & B6:
• Junior Huskey (bass), further personnel information is unknown.
• Recorded at Bradley Film and Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, on August 22-23, 1961.
• ON A3-A5, B1-B2 & B5:
• Junior Huskey (bass), further personnel information is unknown.
• Recorded at Liberty Studios, Los Angeles, California, on September 11-12, 1961.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• ON A7 & B7: Junior Huskey (bass), further personnel information is unknown.
• Recorded at Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee, July 1962.

• ON A8-A9 & B8-B9: Paul Buskirk (guitar & mandolin), Ozzie Middleton (steel guitar), Darold Raley, Clyde Brewer (fiddle), Dean Reynolds (bass), Al Hagy (drums).
• Recorded at Gold Star Studio, Houston, Texas, March 11, 1960

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. TOUCH ME
• A2. WAKE ME WHEN IT’S OVER
• A3. HELLO WALLS
• A4. FUNNY HOW TIME SLIPS AWAY
• A5. CRAZY
• A6. THE PART WHERE I CRY
• A7. HALF A MAN (*)
• A8. THE STORM HAS JUST BEGUN (*)
• A9. MAN WITH THE BLUES (*)

• SIDE B
• B1. MR. RECORD MAN
• B2. THREE DAYS
• B3. ONE STEP BEYOND
• B4. UNDO THE RIGHT
• B5. DARKNESS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
• B6. WHERE MY HOUSE LIVES
• B7. THERE’S GONNA BE LOVE IN MY HOUSE (*)
• B8. WHAT A WAY TO LIVE (*)
• B9. MISERY MANSION (*)