“The essential Willie Nelson” naziv je kompilacije najvećih klasika, legende countrya i američke glazbe, Willie Nelsona. Na dva CD-a nalazi se 41 pjesma. Od njegovih najpoznatijih “On the Road Again” i “Always On My Mind”, pa sve do dueta s Ray Charlesom “Seven Spanish Angels”, Julio Iglesiasom “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before”, ili dosad još neobjavljene “One Time Too Many” sa Steven Tylerom i Aerosmithom, kao i izvedba sa U2 njihove “Slow Dancing”.
Kompilacija je kao poklon fanovima za 70. rođendan legendarnog buntovnika (30. travnja) i veliko hvala svim vjernim obožavateljima na velikoj podršci koju su mu dali tokom njegove karijere koja je počela još davne 1959. i bila je puna uspona i padova. “The essential Willie Nelson” već je u prodaji od 1. travnja.
Prvi disk
1. Night Life • 2. Hello Walls • 3. Crazy ) • 4. Funny How Time Slips Away • 5. I Never Cared For You • 6. The Party’s Over • 7. Good Times • 8. Me And Paul • 9. Shotgun Willie • 10. Bloody Mary Morning • 11. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain • 12. Good Hearted Woman, with Waylon Jennings • 13. If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time • 14. Uncloudy Day • 15. Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys, with Waylon Jennings • 16. Georgia On My Mind • 17. Blue Skies • 18. All Of Me • 19. Heartbreak Hotel, with Leon Russell • 20. Help Me Make It Through the Night • 21. Whiskey River, live • 22. Stay a Little Longer, live
Drugi disk
1. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys • 2. Faded Love, with Ray Price • 3. On the Road Again • 4. Angel Flying Too Close To the Ground • 5. Always On My Mind • 6. Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning • 7. Pancho & Lefty, with Merle Haggard • 8. To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before, with Julio Iglesias • 9. City Of New Orleans • 10. Seven Spanish Angels, with Ray Charles • 11. Forgiving You Was Easy • 12. Highwayman • 13. Living in the Promiseland • 14. Nothing I Can Do About It Now • 15. Graceland • 16. Everywhere I Go, with Emmylou Harris • 17. Slow Dancing (U2 featuring Willie Nelson, Mickey Raphael on harmonica) • 18. Mendocino County Line with Lee Ann Womack • 19. One Time Too Many, with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith
