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Release date: 12-07-2005 2005 Lost Highway Recordings edition. Audiophile pressing on 180 gram virgin vinyl.Willie First-ever Reggae Album. Featuring country classics and reggae standards including: "The Harder They Com", "Sitting in Limbo" & A cover of the Johnny Cash rairity "I am a Worried MAn" Featuring Toots Hibbert. Sealed and stickered. Tracks:
01. Do You Mind Too Much If I Don't Understand
02. How Long Is Forever
03. I'm A Worried Man (featuring Toots Hibbert)
04. The Harder They Come
05. Something To Think About
06. Sitting In Limbo
07. Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
08. One In A Row
09. I've Just Destroyed The World
10. You Left A Long, Long Time Ago
11. I Guess I've Come To Live Here
12. Undo The Right
Countryman is Willie's impassioned tribute to the upstroke sound of Jamaica, an irie voyage to the land of dub and dreadlocks. Willie takes a handful of his own classics and filters them through a reggae prism, peppering them with his nylon acoustic guitar, pedal steel, dobro, harmonica and the familiar comforts of country, while bringing drums and bass to the forefront, yard style. His oft-covered standard "One in a Row" receives a melodic reggae injection, as does "You Left Me a Long Time Ago," a vintage duet he once recorded with Brenda Lee. There's a delightfully skanky run-through of "Darkness on the Face of the Earth," his rugged chestnut from the early '60s. That many of Willie's brilliant tunes could be interpreted so vividly through reggae is a true tribute to the versatility of his material. =====
Willie Nelson's secret ingredient is his unconventional phrasing —
something jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has described as "very
unpredictable, but it comes out poetic and very logical." Dwight Yoakam
calls Nelson "the most avant-garde country singer of all time." You can
hear his odd phrasing and experimental use of syntax in songs ranging
from early hits that he wrote for other singers such as "Hello Walls" to
signature Nelson tunes like "Bloody Mary Morning." Yoakam was a
teenager the first time he heard "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" on Casey
Kasem's Top 40 countdown: "I'd never heard anything like it," Yoakam
says, referring to Nelson's warm, laid-back whine and impeccably casual
tone. "He's not singing to you, he's talking to you."=Rollingstone
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