WILLIE NELSON ONE HELL OF A RIDE (BOX SET)

Navigating {$Willie Nelson}'s immense body of recordings can be daunting even for committed fans. There is so much music and so much of it good that it's hard to keep straight, especially as each of his many eras has been compiled, collected, and reissued countless time, leading to a discography thick with redundancies -- and then there's the stubborn fact that for {$Willie}, making music is like breathing, something that comes naturally, something that happens every day, so he keeps building upon that discography, releasing an album or two each year, which only adds to the confusion for neophytes and longtime fans alike. All of this is a roundabout way to say that there are plenty of {$Willie Nelson} albums out there, that there's a surplus of compilations, but of all these, nothing offers such a complete, useful overview of his entire career as {@Columbia/Legacy}'s four-disc 2008 box {^One Hell of a Ride}. This is not the first {$Willie} box that {@Legacy} has released, of course --