Willie Nelson’s Legacy Celebrated With Career-Spanning Vinyl Box Set
A brand new vinyl field set will have a good time Willie Nelson’s 60 years as a recording artist with a career-spanning assortment that gathers seven of the nation legend’s important albums. Vinyl Me, Please’s VMP Anthology: The Story of Willie Nelson spans from 1965’s Nation Willie (His Personal Songs) to a quartet of masterpieces…
A brand new vinyl field set will have a good time Willie Nelson’s 60 years as a recording artist with a career-spanning assortment that gathers seven of the nation legend’s important albums.
Vinyl Me, Please’s VMP Anthology: The Story of Willie Nelson spans from 1965’s Nation Willie (His Personal Songs) to a quartet of masterpieces — 1971’s Yesterday’s Wine, 1975’s Crimson Headed Stranger, 1978’s Stardust and 1982’s At all times on My Thoughts — and a pair of late-career triumphs, 1993’s Throughout the Borderline and the all-star 2012 album Heroes.
The limited-edition Story of Willie Nelson — available to preorder now — boasts 9 LPs in whole, every pressed on quite a lot of 180-gram coloration vinyl and mastered by Bernie Grundman. Like earlier VMP Anthologies, the gathering is housed in a commemorative field full with a e-book stuffed of liner notes, images and lyrics. Moreover, a podcast will accompany The Story of Willie Nelson that dedicates an episode to every of the albums within the set.
After a profitable stint as a songwriter, Nelson launched his debut album …And Then I Wrote in September 1962. “Sixty years in the past, Willie Nelson – one among America’s nationwide treasures – made his debut LP and within the years since, he’s modified each nation music and the American songwriting custom repeatedly,” Andrew Winistorfer, VMP’s Director of Classics & Nation and creator of the Anthology’s Listening Notes, stated in an announcement.
“Throughout near 100 LPs, Willie Nelson has written about life, love, loss of life, and the American expertise. VMP Anthology: The Story of Willie Nelson goals to honor his indelible legacy by his most influential, essential albums from the start of his profession to immediately.”
Subscription service Vinyl Me, Please beforehand ventured into nation music with a File of the Month collection that kicked off in February 2021 with Johnny Money’s At Folsom Jail and Nelson’s Shotgun Willie.
Final week, Nelson gave his first full public live performance because the loss of life of his sister and bandmate Bobbie Nelson.
VMP Anthology: The Story of Willie Nelson
1. Nation Willie (His Personal Songs) (1965)
2. Yesterday’s Wine (1971)
3. Crimson Headed Stranger (1975)
4. Stardust (1978)
5. At all times on My Thoughts (1982)
6. Throughout the Borderline (1993)
7. Heroes (2012)
