Track Listing

1. Railroad Lady
2. Heartaches of a Fool
3. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
4. Whiskey River
5. Good Hearted Woman
6. Georgia on My Mind
7. All of Me
8. If You've Got the Money (I've Got the Time)
9. Look What Thoughts Will Do
10. Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming)
11. Uncloudy Day
12. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
13. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
14. Help Me Make It Through the Night
15. Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
16. I'd Have to Be Crazy
17. Faded Love - Willie Nelson, Ray Price
18. On the Road Again
19. Midnight Rider
20. Heartbreak Hotel - Willie Nelson, Ray Price
21. If You Could Touch Her at All
22. Till I Gain Control Again
23. Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2706 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2003-10-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
First they went platinum...Now they're going green. Your best loved music in its simplest form. 20 best-selling "Greatest Hits" & "Best of" collections now available in a new eco-friendly package. 1CD in card wallet packaging - no plastic, no booklet - just great music! Booklets are available online through a unique URL on the package.

Customer Reviews

Willie's music from 1975 to 1981
Willie has had a long and distinguished career but the period covered by this compilation was particularly successful. He had plenty of success during the rest of the eighties with such classics as Always on my mind, City of New Orleans, To all the girls I've loved before and Seven Spanish angels, but you must look elsewhere for them. Even without them, this is a very strong compilation.

Despite recording some excellent music in the sixties and early seventies, Willie only became a major star after he signed to Columbia in 1975. He immediately hit big with his first album (Red headed stranger) and the single from it, a cover of Blue eyes crying in the rain (an old Roy Acuff song) that became a major country and pop hit in America. Many other hits followed including a lot of duets -so many that you could fill a boxed set with them.

Willie's classic solo country hits (some covers, some originals) are represented by If you've got the money I've got the time, Uncloudy day, Help me make it through the night, My heroes have always been cowboys, On the road again and a few others.
Willie's duets are represented by Good hearted woman and Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys (both with Waylon Jennings) as well as Faded love (with Ray Price - and Crystal Gayle singing backup harmony) and Heartbreak hotel (with Leon Russell).

Another aspect of Willie's career was the series of albums he recorded featuring songs from the Great American Songbook. The first and most famous of these albums was Stardust. It is the only songbook album from which tracks are taken and is represented here by Georgia on my mind and All of me, the latter being one of three bonus tracks added to this re-mastered edition of the compilation, the other two being Remember me and Midnight rider.

If you only want one collection of music by Willie Nelson, this is a good one to choose if just want a single CD or if you are mainly interested in the songs that established him as a major star. For a broader look at his career, try the double CD Essential or the triple CD Revolutions of time. Even if you buy one of those, you may find that this is a useful second purchase despite some duplication.

His best single disc collection.
This disc has been remastered, and three tracks have been added. But even before that it was an excellent collection. For the casual fan, every track that should be here is here. It may be missing some of his recent stuff, but the classics are all included. The love songs, the cowboy songs, and everything inbetween. These hits and "Stardust" might be all you'll ever need from "Willie". Timeless.

Get your Willie "fix"
Great Willie sound. A really good mix of old, new, happy, sad and all the in-between.