RED HEADED STRANGER
| Willie Nelson
RED HEADED STRANGER
Red Headed Stranger is the eighteenth studio album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelsonand released in 1975. After the wide success of his recordings with Atlantic Records, coupled with the negotiating skills of his manager, Neil Reshen, Nelson signed a contract with Columbia Records, a label that gave him total creative control over his works. -Wikipedia
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Pitchfork
2017 -In 1975, Willie Nelson changed the rules of country music. His lonesome, noir concept album about a wayward preacher was a big and beautiful dream made real by simple and spare music.
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Rolling Stone
1975 -I can’t remember when a record has taken such a hold on me.
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All Music
For all its success, it still remains a prickly, difficult album, though, making the interspersed concept of Phases and Stages sound shiny in comparison. It's difficult because it's old-fashioned, sounding like a tale told around a cowboy campfire.
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Sputnik Music
2010 -The musical equivalent of a shot of bourbon.
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AV Music
2002 -Possibly the best album of Nelson's long career, it has the feel of an heirloom passed down through The Carter Family from the ages.
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The Absolute Sound
2013 -The recording, with its focus on his voice, seems to isolate him within but apart from the minimal accompaniment, which is little more than piano, guitar, bass, and a tapped snare rim. The balance is superb, the record itself something of a must-have.
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My Kind of Country
2013 -now regarded as a landmark album for country music. It is essential listening that deserves a place in the library of every country music fan.
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Daily Republic
Nelson carries the somber, reflective mood throughout without falling victim to boredom, leaving little wonder as to why this album earned him his nickname.
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Positive Feedback
2011 -If you have even the slightest interest in country music, this is essential. Even if you hate country music (at least in the form of the egregious garbage the genre has become), give it a try.
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Robert Christgau
Some of the individual pieces are quite nice, but the gestalt is the concept album at its most counterproductive--the lyrics render the nostalgic instrumental parts unnecessarily ironic and lose additional charm in narrative context.
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