Oh What A Beautiful World Vinyl

LP Edition.

The new album from Willie Nelson (his 77th solo studio album and 154th album overall) is an album focused on the songs of Rodney Crowell, the latest in Nelson's storied history of centering entire albums on the work of a single songwriter. Willie Nelson and Rodney Crowell are two Texas troubadours whose careers have often intersected since Crowell first heard early Nelson songs on the radio and attended his shows in Houston in the mid-1960s. Willie first recorded a Rodney Crowell song in 1983 and last did so 40 years later for 2024’s The Border. Produced by Nelson’s longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon, and with an incredible band of Nashville gun-slingers backing Nelson’s vocals and inspired guitar work on Trigger, the album selects 12 songs spanning the last 50 years, including the title track duet between Nelson and Crowell. From early tracks like 1976's "Banks Of The Old Bandera" (recorded by Jerry Jeff Walker) and 1981’s "Shame On The Moon" (a hit for Bob Seger) to 90’s tracks like “What Kind Of Love” (co-written by Will Jennings based on a Roy Orbison tune), “Stuff That Works” (co-written with Guy Clark), from early 2000s cuts written for hit albums by Keith Urban and Tim McGraw to four cuts from Crowell’s beloved 2010s albums and a cut released as recently as 2021.