Here's Willie Nelson

by Willie Nelson

Here's Willie Nelson cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: July 1963
  • Label: Liberty
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 28:39
  • Community rating: 3/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Features smooth, heavily produced arrangements distinct from the artist's later, grit-heavy outlaw persona. The record highlights his highly sophisticated, jazz-inflected songwriting abilities, although the lush studio orchestration occasionally obscured his idiosyncratic vocal phrasing. The collection captures a generational talent navigating the commercial demands of the early 1960s country apparatus.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. Roly Poly (1:52)
  2. Half A Man (2:27)
  3. Lonely Little Mansion (2:25)
  4. The Last Letter (2:58)
  5. Second Fiddle (2:24)
  6. Take My Word (1:48)
  7. Right Or Wrong (2:11)
  8. Feed It A Memory (2:34)
  9. Let Me Talk To You (2:20)
  10. The Way You See Me (2:56)
  11. Things I Might Have Been (2:13)
  12. Home Motel (2:26)

Credits

  • Willie Nelson - primary artist, written-by
  • Ernie Freeman - arranged by
  • Jimmy Day - arranged by, written-by
  • Bob Wills - sleeve notes
  • Fred Rose - written-by
  • Rex Griffin - written-by
  • Roger Miller - written-by
  • Arthur L. Sizemore - written-by

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