WILLIE NELSON

Phases & Stages (Vinyl)

$17.98 Vinyl

Nelson's first "concept" album, the Jerry Wexler-produced (at Muscle Shoals) PHASES AND STAGES, providing both a man and a woman's viewpoints on a crumbling marriage. First released in 1974, it features the stand-outs "Bloody Mary Morning," "Walkin'," "Pretend I Never Happened," and the title track.

The legendary career of Texas-born music icon Willie Nelson has spanned six decades and stands as one of contemporary music's greatest legacies. Nelson first rose to fame as a Nashville-based songwriter, penning many now timeless standards including "Crazy," a top hit for Patsy Cline. Feeling constrained by the Nashville music establishment, Willie relocated to Austin in the early '70s, where the melding of rock and country audiences made a huge impression on him. He began fusing folk and roots rock with a rebellious "outlaw" country flavor, inventing an authentic, stripped-down sound that remains vastly influential to this day. At this pivotal point in his artistic evolution, Nelson signed to Atlantic Records, delivering two signature albums revered as all-time masterpieces of his extensive repertoire, Shotgun Willie and Phases And Stages.

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