Phases and Stages
by Willie Nelson
- Type: Album
- Released: March 1974
- Label: Atlantic
- Country: United States
- Length: 34:22
- Community rating: 4.14/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A brilliantly conceived concept album chronicling the dissolution of a marriage from both the woman's and the man's perspectives, Willie Nelson's 'Phases and Stages' is a quiet country marvel. The record is profoundly melancholic and beautifully mellow, utilizing incredibly sparse acoustic arrangements to underscore deeply introspective, heart-wrenchingly sad tales of lonely heartbreak.
Genres
Descriptors: conceptual, breakup, acoustic
Tracklist
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Washing the Dishes (1:42)
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / Walkin' (4:06)
- Pretend I Never Happened (3:00)
- Sister's Coming Home / Down at the Corner Beer Joint (3:46)
- (How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again (3:27)
- Bloody Mary Morning (2:48)
- Phases and Stages (Theme) / No Love Around (2:24)
- I Still Can't Believe You're Gone (4:16)
- It's Not Supposed to Be That Way (3:29)
- Heaven and Hell (1:53)
- Phases and Stages / Pick Up the Tempo / Phases and Stages (Theme) (3:26)
Credits
- Willie Nelson - primary artist, acoustic guitar, vocals, liner notes, written-by
- Pete Carr - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, dobro, backing vocals
- Fred Carter, Jr. - acoustic guitar, twelve-string guitar, electric guitar, dobro
- Mike Lewis - arranged by [strings]
- George Soule - backing vocals
- Jeanie Greene - backing vocals
- Eric Weissberg - banjo
- David Hood - bass
- Roger Hawkins - drums
- Jerry Masters - engineer [recording]
- Steve Melton - engineer [recording]
- Al Lester - fiddle
- Johnny Gimble - fiddle, mandolin
- Barry Beckett - keyboards
- George Piros - mastered by [runout etch], mastering
- Tom Dowd - mixed by [re-mixed by]
- John Hughey - pedal steel guitar
- Slick Lawson - photography by, photography
- Jerry Wexler - producer