Country Music

Willie Nelson goes back to his roots with a songbook of classic Americana. Country Music was recorded in Nashville, TN and produced by T Bone Burnett. Nelson wrote one track on the album, "Man With The Blues" and, with T Bone Burnett, co-arranged three traditional songs, "Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down," "I Am A Pilgrim," and "Nobody's Fault But Mine." The album also features many popular old-time/bluegrass/folk songs including Ernest Tubb's "Seaman's Blues, Merle Travis' "Dark As A Dungeon," and Doc Watson's "Freight Train Boogie". Willie Nelson collaborated with many musicians on Country Music including old-time banjo master Riley Baugus, double bassist Dennis Crouch, and T Bone himself, all musicians featured on Raising Sand, the 2009 Grammy® award-winning Album of the Year by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. read more..

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The history of country according to Willie Nelson by Shallowharold
In 2010, Willie Nelson released the aptly titled album "Country Music". At first glance, the album's title could be seen as either confrontational or pretentious given the state of country music today. However, if one were to dig a little deeper, they would find that the album is actually a tribute to traditional county music of yesteryear. Joining Willie on this musical excursion is producer T-Bone Burnett, who last year produced the Alison Krauss & Robert Plant duet album "Raising Sand" and a decade earlier produced the soundtrack to the George Clooney film "O Brother Where Art Thou". All of the songs are cover songs minus the lead off track "The Man With The Blues", which is a Willie Nelson original. He takes on the Hank Williams song "House Of Gold", Al Dexter's "Pistol Packin' Mama", Ernest Tubb's "Seaman's Blues" and Ray Price's "You Done Me Wrong" which was also composed by George Jones. He does a good job on covering "Satisfied Mind", but Johnny Cash did a much better version on his album "American VI: Ain't No Grave" released over a month prior. The album ends with the ballad "Nobody's Fault But Mine" in which gets a slightly different arrangement courtesy of Willie and T-Bone. This is great album from start to finish from Willie Nelson who does a great job on paying tribute to the history of country music.