Nashville Was the Roughest...

~ Release by Willie Nelson (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Annotation

8-CD-box set with 219 tracks and about 587 minutes of play.
Contains all recordings for RCA Records and Monument Records between 1964 and 1972.
12"-sized 72-paged book with discography, a biography by Rich Kienzle and many rather rare photographs.

Annotation last modified on 2017-05-16 11:21 UTC.

Tracklist

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#TitleRatingLength
1Someday You’ll Call My Name
2:09
2Wild Memories
2:37
3December Day
recording of:
December Day
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson (in 1968)
2:43
4Pages
2:55
5Little Things
producer:
Chet Atkins
bass:
Roy Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (on 1967-12-12)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (on 1967-12-12) and Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (on 1967-12-12)
steel guitar:
Jimmy Day (on 1967-12-12)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (on 1967-12-12)
recording of:
Little Things (on 1967-12-12)
writer:
Shirley Collie Nelson (US country/rockabilly singer, yodeler, guitarist and songwriter) and Willie Nelson
43:18
6Good Times
engineer:
Jim Malloy, Tom Pick and Bill Vandervort
producer:
Chet Atkins and Felton Jarvis
bass:
Roy Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (on 1968-03-27)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (on 1968-03-27), Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (on 1968-03-27) and Willie Nelson (on 1968-03-27)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (on 1968-03-27)
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (company owned by Sony Corporation of America from 1991–2004, operated worldwide except in JP; normally not a release label) (in 2003)
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (on 1968-03-27)
recording of:
Good Times (on 1968-03-27)
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson
publisher:
Sony/ATV Tree Publishing
42:29
7She’s Still Gone
recording of:
She's Still Gone
writer:
Shirley Collie Nelson (US country/rockabilly singer, yodeler, guitarist and songwriter) and Willie Nelson
2:27
8Sweet Memories
producer:
Chet Atkins
bass:
Roy Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (on 1968-03-27)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (on 1968-03-27), Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (on 1968-03-27) and Willie Nelson (on 1968-03-27)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (on 1968-03-27)
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (on 1968-03-27)
cover recording of:
Sweet Memories (on 1968-03-27)
lyricist and composer:
Mickey Newbury (American songwriter)
publisher:
Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music (tradename of Sony/ATV Songs LLC)
53:13
9Johnny One Time
producer:
Felton Jarvis
bass:
Roy "Junior" Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
drums (drum set):
Buddy Harman (Session drummer and songwriter) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar [rhythm guitar]:
Ray Edenton (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
instruments:
Harold Cruthirds (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
piano:
Bill Pursell (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
viola:
Howard Carpenter (US violinist, violist, composer, copyist, author & music professor) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Martin Katahn (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
violin:
Brenton Banks (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Solie Fott (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Lillian Vann Hunt (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Shelly Kurland (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
cover recording of:
Johnny One Time (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
writer:
Dallas Frazier (American songwriter and musician) and Arthur Leo “Doodle” Owens (American country music singer-songwriter)
publisher:
Sony/ATV Rose Music and Unichappell Music, Inc.
2:45
10Jimmy’s Road
2:39
11Bring Me Sunshine
bass:
Roy "Junior" Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
cello:
Harold Cruthirds (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
drums (drum set):
Buddy Harman (Session drummer and songwriter) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar [rhythm guitar]:
Ray Edenton (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
instruments:
Bill Pursell (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
viola:
Howard Carpenter (US violinist, violist, composer, copyist, author & music professor) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Martin Katahn (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
violin:
Brenton Banks (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Solie Fott (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Lillian Vann Hunt (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Shelly Kurland (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
engineered at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
recording of:
Bring Me Sunshine (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
lyricist:
Sylvia Dee (American lyricist)
composer:
Arthur Kent
publisher:
Edward Proffitt Music and Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music)
2:13
12I Let My Mind Wander
recording of:
I Let My Mind Wander
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson (in 1966)
publisher:
Sony Tree Publishing Co., Inc. (in 2000)
2:54
13I Just Don’t Understand
2:40
14I Just Dropped By
3:27
15The Local Memory
1:52
16Natural to Be Gone
2:03
17Love Has a Mind of It’s Own
2:40
18I’ll Walk Alone
3:09
19It Will Come to Pass
3:02
20Me Own Perculiar Way
recording of:
My Own Peculiar Way
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson (in 1964)
3:08
21The Message
recording of:
The Message
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson
2:42
22That’s All
2:27
23Any Old Arms Won’t Do
producer:
Chet Atkins
baritone saxophone:
Norman Ray (on 1968-11-07)
bass:
Bob Moore (U.S. bassist and bandleader) (on 1968-11-07)
celesta [celeste] and vibraphone [vibes]:
Bergen White (American arranger, producer, conductor, musician, composer and singer) (on 1968-11-07)
drums (drum set):
Jerry Carrigan (US drummer) (on 1968-11-07)
electric guitar:
Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (on 1968-11-07) and Wayne Moss (on 1968-11-07)
piano:
David Briggs (US producer and musician) (on 1968-11-07)
tenor saxophone and trombone:
Wayne Butler (trombonist and session musician) (on 1968-11-07)
trumpet:
Donald C. Sheffield (on 1968-11-07) and George Tidwell (on 1968-11-07)
violin:
Brenton Banks (on 1968-11-07), Carol Walker (American Violinist) (on 1968-11-07), George Binkley III (violinist, session musician) (on 1968-11-07), Lillian Vann Hunt (on 1968-11-07), Pierre Menard (violinist) (on 1968-11-07) and Byron Williams (Violinist) (on 1968-11-07)
background vocals:
Dorothy Dillard (on 1968-11-07), Jeannie Ogletree (on 1968-11-07) and William Guilford Wright Jr. (in the Anita Kerr Singers) (on 1968-11-07)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (on 1968-11-07)
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (on 1968-11-07)
recording of:
Any Ol' Arms Won't Do (on 1968-11-07)
writer:
Hank Cochran (Nashville singer and songwriter) and Willie Nelson
publisher:
Tree Publishing Co., Inc.
42:33
24Johnny One Time
producer:
Felton Jarvis
bass:
Roy "Junior" Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
drums (drum set):
Buddy Harman (Session drummer and songwriter) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar [rhythm guitar]:
Ray Edenton (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
instruments:
Harold Cruthirds (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
piano:
Bill Pursell (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
viola:
Howard Carpenter (US violinist, violist, composer, copyist, author & music professor) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Martin Katahn (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
violin:
Brenton Banks (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Solie Fott (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Lillian Vann Hunt (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Shelly Kurland (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
cover recording of:
Johnny One Time (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
writer:
Dallas Frazier (American songwriter and musician) and Arthur Leo “Doodle” Owens (American country music singer-songwriter)
publisher:
Sony/ATV Rose Music and Unichappell Music, Inc.
2:46
25Jimmy’s Road
2:39
26Bring Me Sunshine
bass:
Roy "Junior" Huskey, Jr. (son of Roy Junior Huskey) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
cello:
Harold Cruthirds (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
drums (drum set):
Buddy Harman (Session drummer and songwriter) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar:
Chet Atkins (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Grady Martin (country/rockabilly guitarist) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
guitar [rhythm guitar]:
Ray Edenton (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
instruments:
Bill Pursell (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
viola:
Howard Carpenter (US violinist, violist, composer, copyist, author & music professor) (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Martin Katahn (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
violin:
Brenton Banks (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Solie Fott (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18), Lillian Vann Hunt (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18) and Shelly Kurland (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
vocals:
Willie Nelson (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
engineered at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
recording of:
Bring Me Sunshine (from 1968-07-08 until 1968-07-18)
lyricist:
Sylvia Dee (American lyricist)
composer:
Arthur Kent
publisher:
Edward Proffitt Music and Music Sales Corporation (American copyright holder in both popular and classical music)
2:13
27Bloody Merry Morning
recording of:
Bloody Mary Morning
lyricist and composer:
Willie Nelson
3:16
28Pins and Needles (In My Heart)
producer:
Felton Jarvis
bass:
Jimmy Day and Norbert Putnam
bongos:
James Isbell (American drummer and percussionist)
drums (drum set):
Billy English (US drummer/percussionist for Willie Nelson)
guitar:
Willie Nelson and David Zettner
vocals:
Willie Nelson
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (from 1969-11-12 until 1970-01-15)
cover recording of:
Pins and Needles (in My Heart) (on 1969-11-12)
lyricist and composer:
Floyd Jenkins (songwriter)
publisher:
Acuff-Rose Publications, Inc. (BMI) (on 1943-01-28)
33:19
29Everybody’s Talkin’
producer:
Felton Jarvis
bass:
Jimmy Day and Norbert Putnam
bongos:
James Isbell (American drummer and percussionist)
drums (drum set):
Billy English (US drummer/percussionist for Willie Nelson)
guitar:
Willie Nelson and David Zettner
vocals:
Willie Nelson
recorded at:
RCA Victor Studios (Nashville) in Nashville, Tennessee, United States (from 1969-11-12 until 1970-01-15)
cover recording of:
Everybody’s Talkin’ (on 1969-11-12)
lyricist and composer:
Fred Neil
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, Coconut Grove Music, Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships), Third Palm Music and Third Story Music, Inc.
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