I bet you didn’t expect that headline.
One day, real country music will be back. They’ll dust off the pedal steel guitars, fiddles, and dobros. I can’t hardly wait.
This is the first country album I’ve bought in a long time.
http://www.cmt.com/news/1755414/willie-nelson-merle-haggard-claim-album-crown-with-django-and-jimmie/
Alert the media: The old guys still rock!
Willie Nelson, 82, and Merle Haggard, 78, have the bestselling country album this week with Django and Jimmie, their buoyant tribute to their musical role models, Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers.
According to Nielsen SoundScan, the album sold 30,408 copies its first week out.
Wikipedia has some reviews at their album listing. I’m really enjoying the album.
Django and Jimmie is the sixth and final collaborative studio album by American country music artists Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. It was released on June 2, 2015, by Legacy Recordings. The album was Haggard's final studio album prior to his death of pneumonia in April 2016, 10 months after its release.
The album was well received by the critics, while it topped Billboard's Top Country Albums and reached number seven on the Billboard 200 upon its release.
Django and Jimmie marked Willie N...
Uncut delivered a favorable review, declaring: “Nelson sings like a canary and plays like a dream, Haggard growls like a grizzled jailbird and everyone seems to be having a blast”.[10] American Songwriter favored the chemistry between Nelson and Haggard, while it praised Cannon and his “rootsy, loose and homey” approach, while it called the backing band “great”.[11] Paste delivered a positive review, declaring: “Just hearing (Haggard and Nelson) make the music they want is plenty”.[12]
Austin Chronicle rated the album with four stars out of five. The review remarked the merger of the styles of both artists: Haggard’s signature use of the Telecaster and steel guitar; with Nelson’s guitar and Mickey Raphael’s harmonica. It called the rasp on their voices “well seasoned”, while it concluded that both “deliver a master class on how country music is supposed to be done”
I was a little surprised to learn that Haggard never had a top 10 album.
Haggard had quite a few #1 albums.
The discography for American country music singer Merle Haggard includes 66 studio albums, five instrumental albums featuring his backing band the Strangers, as well as several live and compilation albums. Haggard recorded for a variety of major and independent record labels through the years, with significant years spent with Capitol Records (where he lived for over a decade), MCA Records, Epic Records and Curb Records, as well as his own label Hag Records.
But its been a long time ago. 1984 * It’s All in the Game* That album hit #1 thirty years ago.
Willie Nelson had a number 1 album (July 5, 2014) Band of Brothers . That makes two years in a row and he’s over eighty years old. Amazing talent.
The following is a detailed discography of all albums released by country music singer Willie Nelson, since his professional debut in 1962. Nelson's discography includes 101 studio albums (consisting of 76 solo studio albums and 26 collaborative studio albums), 14 live albums, 51 compilation albums and 41 video albums as well as the soundtracks of The Electric Horseman and Honeysuckle Rose.
According to Courier Journal, Nelson's 2024 album The Border was his 152nd album.
His albums have been s...
Band of Brothers is an album by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. The album marks Nelson’s return to writing, with nine out of the fourteen tracks being new original songs.
The album was released on June 17, 2014 by Legacy Recordings.
Wonderful to see these two country legends making great music and reminding today’s stars how real country music is really sung.
There’s nothing better than blues influenced traditional country.