Track Listing

1. Ou Es-Tu, Mon Amor? (Where Are You, My Love?)
2. I Never Cared For You
3. Everywhere I Go
4. Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
5. My Own Peculiar Way
6. These Lonely Nights
7. Home Motel
8. The Maker
9. I Just Can't Let You Say Good-Bye
10. I've Just Destroyed The World
11. Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
12. Three Days
13. I've Loved You All Over The World
14. Annie

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27957 in Music
• Released on: 1998-09-01
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The first words from Willie Nelson's lips, "The sun is filled with ice and gives no warmth at all / the sky was never blue," warn the listener something is happening here. In a converted Mexican movie theater, producer Daniel Lanois surrounds the 65-year-old Nelson with the most startling and assured musical vision of his career: lush, rippling guitars, and swelling, splashing drum tracks, doubled and tripled over, sometimes in a Latin mood. Lanois allows Nelson freedom to solo in and around his sonic dreamwork, and with the presence of longtime fellow travelers Mickey Raphael, Emmylou Harris, and sister Bobbie, the record clearly smacks of Nelson's style and lyrical vision. The original material is decades old, but little known, and generally as haunting as Lanois's arrangements. (Only one song should have remained in the vaults: the emotionally-curdled "I Just Can't Let You Say Good-Bye.") So much could have gone wrong on this pairing. It's a thrill to hear how much truly goes right. --Roy Francis Kasten

Entertainment Weekly
[Nelson's] Texas-rooted sound has always had a south-of-the-border tinge, which [producer Daniel] Lanois accentuates with Teatro's bubbling percussion.

USA Today
Emmylou Harris and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau ... give Nelson's idiosyncratic guitar room to roam free and add a fascinating dimension to his sound.

Customer Reviews

Desert Island CD - I'd take it anywhere
I'll begin by saying I'm over 50, and I've been exposed and heard lots of music over the years. I've collected various artists as I was financially able, including Elton John, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, and Billy Joe Shaver. I remember my Dad watching Willie when I was a child. I associate this with the Porter Wagoner Show, The Wilburn Brothers Show, and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Show. They were all in black and white, as I recall. As I grew up in the 60s and came of age in the 70s, Willie had many hits. I didn't pay much attention at the time to their import and quality. I missed a few great artists, discovering them only in retrospect. Willie is one of them. It was only in the last five years that I began to collect his CDs. He has some classics, including the Red Headed Stranger, Phases and Stages, and Willie and Family Live among others. My personal favorite song sung by Willie is "Till I Gain Control Again". Teatro is one of those albums that grows and grows on one. I used to say that if I had to be marooned on a desert isle, I'd take Bob Dylan with me; later, I said Elton John. These artists are both great, but I know now who I'd take: Willie Nelson. This is highly recommended.

willie nelson, teatro
willie nelson continues to create wonderful music and teatro is an example of this. emmie lou harris is a fantastic harmonist with him on this albumm they sound great together. i greatly suggest anybody listen and enjoy this album

A MUST!
This album is simply stunning. It is some of the most beautiful and compelling music I have ever heard. It is a MUST for any music fan.