Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Night Life
2. Hello Walls
3. Crazy
4. Funny How Time Slips Away
5. I Never Cared For You
6. The Party's Over
7. Good Times
8. Me And Paul
9. Shotgun Willie
10. Bloody Mary Morning
11. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
12. Good Hearted Woman with Waylon Jennings
13. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time
14. Uncloudy Day
15. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys with Waylon Jennings
16. Georgia On My Mind
17. Blue Skies
18. All Of Me
19. Heartbreak Hotel with Leon Russell
20. Help Me Make It Through The Night
21. Whiskey River (Live)
22. Stay A Little Longer (Live)

Disc 2:

1. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
2. Faded Love with Ray Price
3. On The Road Again
4. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground
5. Always On My Mind
6. Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
7. Pancho And Lefty with Merle Haggard
8. To All The Girls I've Loved Before with Julio Iglesias
9. City Of New Orleans
10. Seven Spanish Angels with Ray Charles
11. Forgiving You Was Easy
12. Highwayman with Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash & Kris Kristofferson
13. Living In The Promiseland
14. Nothing I Can Do About It Now
15. Graceland
16. Everywhere I Go with Emmylou Harris
17. Slow Dancing U2 featuring Willie Nelson
18. Mendocino County Line with Lee Ann Womack
19. One Time Too Many with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith (Previously Unreleased)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7751 in Music
• Released on: 2005-04-25
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

CD Description
The catalogue of Willie Nelson is so vast and rich that assembling an "essential" collection of only one or two discs seems nearly impossible. RCA's single-disc 1995 attempt was admirable and worthy, but doomed by space limitations. With abit more room to move, Legacy's roomier two-disc collectionis about close as anyone could hope to come. We get the full view of the great singer/songwriter's artistic journey.
"Hello Walls" and the evergreen "Crazy" hail from the days when Nelson was tooling around Nashville as a songwriter forhire but mystifyingly unable to connect as a solo artist. His transformation into a counterculture icon via the '70s "outlaw country" movement is marked by the likes of "Me and Paul" and "Bloody Mary Morning". His tremendous skill as in interpreter can be heard in such standards as "Blue Skies" and"Georgia on Mind", which helped make him a crossover success in the STARDUST era. Latter-day collaborations with everyone from Aerosmith ("One Time Too Many") to U2 ("Slow Dancing") show Willie's mercurial, eclectic nature. Add it all up and a portrait comes together of a man whose artistic vision has carried him across decades and stylistic shifts aplenty and seen him through in style.