Yesterday's Wine

by Willie Nelson

Yesterday's Wine cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1971
  • Label: RCA Victor
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 30:10
  • Community rating: 3.54/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded over just a few days before his departure from Nashville, this profoundly intimate, deeply philosophical concept album traces the journey of the 'imperfect man' from birth to the afterlife. Eschewing heavy studio polish, Nelson's fragile, acoustic-driven delivery perfectly matched his existential lyricism. Though a commercial failure at the time, it became universally recognized as the crucial spiritual predecessor to the entire Outlaw Country movement.

Genres

Descriptors: existential, conceptual, acoustic, death

Tracklist

  1. Medley: Where's the Show / Let Me Be a Man (3:40)
  2. In God's Eyes (2:22)
  3. Family Bible (3:11)
  4. It's Not for Me to Understand (3:05)
  5. Medley: These Are Difficult Times / Remember the Good Times (3:14)
  6. Summer of Roses (2:04)
  7. December Day (2:19)
  8. Yesterday's Wine (3:15)
  9. Me and Paul (3:49)
  10. Goin' Home (3:06)

Credits

  • The Bees - primary artist
  • Willie Nelson - primary artist, written-by
  • Hartsel Gray - artwork by [cover sketch by]
  • Steve Bernstein - design [designer]
  • Al Pachucki - engineer [recording engineer]
  • Dee Moeller - liner notes
  • Felton Jarvis - producer [produced by]
  • Mike Shockley - technician [recording technician]
  • Roy Shockley - technician [recording technician]
  • Claude Gray - written-by
  • Paul Buskirk - written-by
  • Walter Breeland - written-by

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