TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.3781
Willie Nelson Album Rankings
1
When I was much younger, I remember going to my Uncle Tony's house for family celebrations of certain holidays.
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IfShotgun Willieplayed a bit like a concept album,Phases and Stageswas a full-blown one, tracing the dissolution of a marriage and devoting one side to the wife's perspective, the second to the husban
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Before the release of the shockingly good Across the Borderline, Willie Nelson was just on the verge of turning into a sad pop-culture joke: a 59-year-old hitless hippie who'd become more of an outlaw
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Transferring his allegiance to Atlantic (where he would record two remarkable albums that would get him kicked off the label), Willie Nelson offered his finest record to date for his debut -- possibly
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Willie Nelson created perfectly brilliant production-line country records for RCA but, as the cover art for albums like The Words Don't Fit The Picture suggested, he hadn't found his métier as
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Willie Nelson recorded for many labels during the course of his lengthy career, but his greatest commercial success arrived during his time on Columbia during the late '70s and early '80s, which is on
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In 1970, Willie Nelson's Nashville house burned to the ground, and he decided he'd had enough of the land of the Grand Ole Opry.
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8
Compiling material from Willie Nelson's later career, the box setRevolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993provides a thorough overview of the singer's most popular recordings, as well as some of his
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9
With the recent death of Cindy Walker, Willie Nelson's tribute to the great Texas songwriter gains extra significance.
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10
Roland Leblanc became Roland Stone when he joined the Skyliners, led by teenager Mac Rebennack, in 1959.
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11
Nelson sounds like he's giving it his all, and everyone around him rises to the occasion.
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12
Somewhere over the Rainbowfurther establishes Willie Nelson as country music's preeminent conservator of America's pop tradition.
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13
Atlantic Records, which gave the world Ray Charles, the Drifters, and Led Zeppelin, never had much luck with country.
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Ever wonder what Willie Nelson sounded like before he grew a beard? In the Sixties, Nashville didn't know what to make of this Texan with the conversational singing style, so they buried his idiosyncr
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15
The surprise is how extraordinarily well it all fits together, songs and guest vocalists pulled from all over the landscape, all blues and all inescapably Willie.
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16
No, no, Alantis – thankyou.And you, too, Jewel. When Alanis Morissette first showed up with "You Oughta Know," she got pigeonholed as That Angry Chick in the Theater.
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17
Nearing seventy with a golfer's grace and a con man's poker face, Willie Nelson never sweats the technique.
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18
Released in late 1976, at the height of Willie mania,The Troublemakeris Willie Nelson's first all-gospel album, but country gospel in his hands doesn't sound like traditional country gospel -- it's a
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19
A separate building such as a quonset hut would have to be built to accomodate all the releases this lovable country artist pumped out during the '80s.
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20
One hesitates to tell Willie Nelson what to do, but maybe the man should always sing songs with the word always in the title: "Always on My Mind" is one of Nelson's most enduring classics, and now "It
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21
Has there ever been an artist who has sold so many records and yet seems to be as universally detested as Scott Stapp? For a few years around the turn of the century, Creed were the biggest-selling ba
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22
Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)was released in the fall of 1981, summarizing a remarkable seven-year stretch of extraordinary success that began when the iconoclasticRed Headed Stranger, Willie Ne
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23
It Plays Like a Best-Of You Made Yourself -- But Not In a Good Way.
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24
There is a great world of music out there that often goes unreleased.
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25
There's another connection between two secret sharers: Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson both convince you they just did whatever they did off the top of their heads.
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26
Without a Song, Willie Nelson's latest adventure in standards land, is a tame safari.
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27
When, in the finale ofAlways on My Mind, Willie Nelson claims he "wasn't tryin'," he seems to be summing up his attitude toward this whole sorry album.
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28
Hailing from a state known for trailblazing country, Lefty Frizzell and Willie Nelson are Texas' most distinctive sons in the singing and songwriting departments.
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30
More standards, this time with Chips Moman, who uses fuller arrangements (background singers, synthesizers) than either Jones or Nelson would on songs "Some Enchanted Evening," "Twilight Time" and "M
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31
Nelson tackles the Neil Young classic "Heart of Gold" on Partners, which also includes his hit "Partners After All.
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32
Island in the Sea's title cut proved to be a Top 30 hit.
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33
Another album of standards, Moonlight Becomes You consists largely of tunes like "Sentimental Journey" and "Someday (You'll Want Me To Want You)," though Nelson wrote "December Days" and "In God's Ey
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34
Super Hits is a budget-priced ten-track collection that contains a selection of Willie Nelson's greatest hits ("On the Road Again," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," "Pancho and Lefty," "Always on My M
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35
The cover suggests Nelson as Harley-Davidson biker, but the album shows his tender side with heartbreak ballads like "You Decide" and "This Is How Without You Goes.
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36
A typically rambling Nelson album that ranges from Steve Goodman 's slice-of-Americana train song "City Of New Orleans" to "Wind Beneath My Wings"(!) to the country-soul standard "Just Out Of Reach.
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37
Willie Nelson's superstar guest album from 2002, The Great Divide, was promoted by a star-studded concert released later that year as Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars & Guitars.
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38
This is an appropriate collection, since Nelson has recorded more duets with more fellow performers than any other country singer in history.
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39
Among country's old guard, Johnny Cash remains incontrovertibly cool.
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40
Not all of Willie Nelson's hits are on 16 Biggest Hits -- after all, it only features recordings he made for Columbia and skips over any hit duet he's had -- but it never was intended to be a definit
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41
Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson's Hill Country Christmas is a laid-back, entertaining collection of such holiday favorites as "Away in a Manger," "Joy to the World," "O' Little Town of Bethlehem," "S
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42
Country music fans of course have lots of things to be thankful to Willie Nelson for.
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Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) was released in the fall of 1981, summarizing a remarkable seven-year stretch of extraordinary success that began when the iconoclastic Red Headed Stranger, Willie
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