Willie Nelson - Stardust (Vinyl) (New (N))

An American Classic: Gorgeous Breakthrough Album of Pop Standards Spent More than a Decade on Country Charts Quintuple Platinum 1978 Set Finds Nelson Interpreting Fare From Likes of Kurt Weill, Hoagy Carmichael, and Irving Berlin Sumptuous Sound Elevates Booker T. Jones' Production: Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI As a Singer, Nelson Never Better: Gets Inside the Phrasing, Lyrics, and Emotions of Songs 'Why be predictable?,' Willie Nelson asked Columbia Records executive Nick Blackburn, after the latter resisted the Red Headed Stranger's decision to make an album of classic pop tunes. Talk about outlaw country. Cutting against the genre's traditions and Music Row conventions, Nelson's Stardust remains a genius-level creation as well as the icon's most commercially successful release, a truly gorgeous record infused with ultimate respect for composers and lyrics and many of the finest performances of his career. It is a quinte