Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Time of the Preacher
2. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
3. If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
4. Uncloudy Day
5. Always Late (With Your Kisses)
6. Georgia on My Mind
7. Blue Skies
8. Whiskey River
9. Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)
10. Mr. Record Man
11. Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
12. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys
13. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
14. It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
15. On the Road Again
16. Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
17. Mona Lisa
18. Always on My Mind
19. Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
20. Party's Over

Disc 2:

1. Summertime - Willie Nelson, Leon Russell
2. Faded Love - Willie Nelson, Ray Price
3. Night Life - Willie Nelson, Ray Price
4. Pancho and Lefty - Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson
5. Old Friends - Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Ray Price
6. In the Jailhouse Now - Willie Nelson, Webb Pierce
7. Everything's Beautiful (In It's Own Way)
8. Take It to the Limit - Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson
9. To All the Girls I've Loved Before - Julio Iglesias, Willie Nelson
10. How Do You Feel About Foolin' Around
11. Seven Spanish Angels - Ray Charles, Willie Nelson
12. Hello Walls - Willie Nelson, Faron Young
13. I'm Movin' On - Willie Nelson, Hank Snow
14. Highwayman - Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson
15. Slow Movin Outlaw - Lacy J. Dalton, Willie Nelson
16. Are There Any More Real Cowboys? - Willie Nelson, Neil Young
17. They All Went to Mexico - Willie Nelson, Carlos Santana
18. Half a Man - George Jones, Willie Nelson
19. Texas on a Saturday Night - Willie Nelson, Mel Tillis
20. Heartland - Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson

Disc 3:

1. Nobody Slides, My Friend
2. Little Old Fashioned Karma
3. Harbor Lights
4. Without a Song
5. Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues
6. City of New Orleans
7. Who'll Buy My Memories?
8. Write Your Own Songs
9. Forgiving You Was Easy
10. Me and Paul
11. When I Dream
12. My Own Peculiar Way
13. Living in the Promiseland
14. There Is No Easy Way (But There Is a Way)
15. Ole Buttermilk Sky
16. Horse Called Music
17. Nothing I Can Do About It Now
18. Is the Better Part Over
19. Ain't Necessarily So
20. Still Is Still Moving to Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #233469 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-28
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Amazon.com essential recording
More so than most country artists, Willie Nelson is difficult to thoroughly investigate without delving into his individual releases, which often revolve around either musical or lyrical concepts. So give Columbia credit for assembling such a cohesive, provocative collection, one that covers every aspect of his glorious career and that amply showcases his distinctive singing, songwriting, and gut-string work. Disc 1 (entitled Pilgrimage), worth the price of admission alone, focuses on his remarkable 1970s and early-1980s work: the Red Headed Stranger cuts, the Lefty Frizzell tributes, the Stardust standards, searing live cuts, the Electric Horseman cowboy odes and Honeysuckle Rose gems, and the best of Always on My Mind. Disc 2 (Sojourns) pairs Nelson with an impressive array of partners: Haggard, Price, Miller, Pierce, Charles, Young (both Neil and Faron), Santana, Possum, Dylan, Cash, Snow, Jennings, Julio, Dolly, Kristofferson. Disc 3 (Exodus) collects the mid-1980s and early-1990s stuff, and while it contains moments of brilliance, it doesn't match up to the first two discs. All in all, a marvelous 60-song collection filled with an astonishing number of spine-chilling moments. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews

Brilliant collection of Willie's best music
This boxed set is a repackaging (at a lower price) of an earlier boxed set. Although I have the original set (which opens like a hardback book, with the CD's inside the covers), the track listing and sequencing is identical. As far as the music is concerned, it clearly demonstrates that Willie could sing many different types of song. Nevertheless, most of them fall into two main categories - the country songs and the classic oldies from the Great American Songbook.

The songs from the Great American Songbook were originally released on his albums Stardust, Somewhere over the rainbow, Without a song, What a wonderful world and an album he did with Leon Russell (One for the road) - five albums that Willie recorded which were devoted entirely to these songs. The songs chosen for this collection include Blue skies, Georgia on my mind, Summertime, Mona Lisa, Harbor lights, Without a song and Ole buttermilk sky. Most (if not all) of the original albums from which these tracks are taken are still available. There is also a double-CD, All the songs I've loved before, which is dominated by these songs, only including a few country songs.

On this collection, there are plenty of country songs, including Willie's covers of Blue eyes crying in the rain, If you've got the money I've got the time and City of New Orleans. The middle of the three CD's is devoted to his duets with many different singers. You could fill several CD's with Willie's duets without including any guest twice, but the ones chosen for this selection offer an excellent representation of this aspect of his career.

Some people say that a collection like this does not Willie Nelson justice, because so many of his albums were themed. My answer to that is that this provides a great sampling of his career. After playing this a few times, you can decide which aspect of his music you like best and explore that in greater depth.

Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993-Willie Nelson
I found this set of cds by accident when I was looking for a particular song on the album that Willie does with Dolly Parton. I was thrilled to check out the songs and find out just how good this set was. I am a die hard country fan and this is one of my favorties!!

Ultimate Willie collection
We have lots of country music but had never purchased a CD by Willie Nelson. This is a great collection of his earlier works and we especially like the "duets" CD. If you are a Willie fan (and who isn't), you must have this collection.