Milk Cow Blues

by Willie Nelson

Milk Cow Blues cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 September 2000
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:09:40
  • Community rating: 3.34/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Willie Nelson's forty-eighth studio album and his first devoted entirely to the blues, 'Milk Cow Blues' assembles fifteen standards and blues songs backed by the house band of Antone's, the Austin club. Guest vocalists and guitarists include B.B. King, Dr. John, Susan Tedeschi, Keb' Mo', Jonny Lang and Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Genres

Descriptors: bluesy, soulful, covers, male-vocals, traditional

Tracklist

  1. Milk Cow Blues (4:30)
  2. Outskirts Of Town (2:56)
  3. Black Night (5:22)
  4. Funny (How Time Slips Away) (4:11)
  5. Rainy Day Blues (5:09)
  6. Crazy (4:16)
  7. The Thrill Is Gone (4:25)
  8. Wake Me When It's Over (4:12)
  9. Kansas City (2:51)
  10. Fool's Paradise (4:17)
  11. Ain't Nobody's Business (5:08)
  12. Night Life (4:25)
  13. Sittin' On Top Of The World (4:46)
  14. Lonely Street (4:26)
  15. Texas Flood (8:46)

Credits

  • Willie Nelson - primary artist, vocals, guitar, written-by
  • Riley Osbourn - electric organ [b3], piano
  • Micah Nelson - illustration [cow illustrations]
  • Francine Reed - featuring, vocals
  • Keb' Mo' - featuring, vocals
  • Dr. John - featuring, vocals, piano, featuring, piano
  • Jonny Lang - featuring, vocals
  • Susan Tedeschi - featuring, vocals
  • Steve Chadie - engineer [assisted by], mixed by [assisted by]
  • Jeff Fenster - a&r
  • Kyledidthis - art direction
  • Scott Sandler - design
  • Larry Greenhill - engineer
  • Stuart Sullivan - engineer
  • Boo MacLeod - engineer [assisted by]
  • Lukas Nelson - liner notes
  • Dave McNair - mixed by
  • Mike Schreiber - photography by [center spread]
  • Danny Clinch - photography by [front cover and all interior photography]
  • Freddy Fletcher - producer
  • Kokomo Arnold - written-by
  • Will Weldon - written-by
  • Jessie Mae Robinson - written-by
  • Rick Darnell - written-by
  • Roy Hawkins - written-by
  • Leiber & Stoller - written-by
  • Bob Geddins - written-by
  • David Avid - written-by
  • Johnny Fuller - written-by
  • Everett Robbins - written-by
  • Porter Grainger - written-by
  • Paul Buskirk - written-by
  • Walter Breeland - written-by
  • Bob Wills - written-by
  • Carl Belew - written-by
  • Kenny Sowder - written-by
  • W.S. Stevenson - written-by
  • Joseph Scott - written-by
  • Larry Davis - written-by

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