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Songbird (CD)

By: Willie Nelson (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Songbird (CD) Album By Willie Nelson (Artist)
1   Rainy Day Blues
2   Songbird
3   Blue Hotel
4   Back To Earth
5   Stella Blue
6   Hallelujah
7   $1000 Wedding
8   We Don't Run
9   Yours Love
10   Sad Song And Waltzes
11   Amazing Grace
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (p.79) - "[T]his collaboration with Ryan Adams is Nelson's finest in a decade. The sound is burly, surrounding his inimitable lilt with shuddering electric guitars." -- Grade: A-
Q (p.138) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Adams's production gives a ghostly sheen to a set dominated by covers, purvyeing a swamp-blues sound."
Q (p.117) - Ranked #73 in Q Magazine's "100 Greatest Albums of 2006."
Dirty Linen (p.46) - "The production values are excellent -- tons of jagged-edged, howling guitars, wailing harmonicas, outlining piano chords and exploding bits of distortion..."
No Depression (p.97) - "Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' takes on the majesty it deserves. The straight honky-tonk of Harlan Howard's ballad 'Yours Love' is also effective..."

Title Note

Personnel: Willie Nelson (harmonica); Neal Casal (guitar, keyboards); Jon Graboff (pedal steel guitar); Glenn Patscha (keyboards); Catherine Popper (bass guitar); Brad Pemberton (drums); The Cardinals , Mickey Raphael.

Recording information: Avatar Studios, New York, New York; Loho Studios, New York City, New York (2006).

Just as Daniel Lanois's production pushed Willie Nelson into moodier, more atmospheric sonic climes than ever before on 1998's TEATRO, so alt-country firebrand Ryan Adams, on 2006's SONGBIRD, prods the country icon into a space as raw and electric as any he's occupied in his long career. A big part of the reason is the backing of Adams's band the Cardinals--even a cover of Fleetwood Mac's lambent ballad "Songbird" is juiced up by gritty, distorted lead guitar. But Nelson's leathery, hardscrabble vocal delivery is what truly sets the weathered, organic tone throughout.

The song selection plays as an Americana fan's dream mix-tape; Nelson solemnly intones the Grateful Dead's stately, spooky "Stella Blue," drips some extra sadness onto Gram Parsons'x mournful, elegiac "$1000 Wedding," and leaps gamely into Adams's countrier-than-thou "Blue Hotel." The Red-Headed Stranger strikes close to the bone with a skeletal version of his own classic "Sad Songs & Waltzes" and a pedal-steel-sweetened take on Leonard Cohen's much-covered "Hallelujah." Whether lighting a fire under Willie or just laying back and letting him roll, Adams and company create a space on SONGBIRD in which an American treasure can play his most important role--himself.

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