Willie Nelson – Phases And Stages (LP Vinyl) cd and the gamble paid off

and the gamble paid off in ways that reshaped what a band could do with an album

Love Reign O'er Me (8:30)

Jerry is masterful

" And the joke is nearly as delicious as hearing Bobbie Nelson and Paul English playing alongside Willie once again

" said Springsteen

Willie Nelson – Phases And Stages (LP Vinyl) cd and the gamble paid offOriginally cut at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in 1972, this album arrived at a pivotal moment in the outlaw country movement, when Nelson was finding his footing outside the Nashville establishment's commercial machinery. The dual perspective structure was quietly radical for country music at the time, treating working class heartbreak with the kind of literary seriousness more often reserved for folk or singer songwriter records. Nelson's concept