Willie Nelson - And Then I Wrote (180g 2LP 45RPM Analogue Productions)

In 1961 Willie Nelson was finally in Nashville and tasting success after years of scraping by in various locales, on his gift for making heartaches and memories rhyme. Nelson's songs \""Crazy,\"" \""Hello Walls\"" and \""Funny How Time Slips Away\"" bcame huge hits for Patsy Cline, Faron Young and Billy Walker, respectively. The royalty checks \u2014 fat ones \u2014 were rolling in.\n\nBut Willie wanted more. These songs were his essence, and he wanted country music fans to know they poured out of his soul. The next fall, in 1962, he debuted his first full-length album with Liberty Records, and called it ...and then I wrote. It was perhaps the most accomplished debut album in history.\n\n\""For many of us born in the six decades since, it's impossible to imagine a world in which these songs didn't exist. If you grew up in Texas, they were likely just about everywhere: at ballgames and cookouts and weddings and funerals, on road trips and the radio and every jukebox you've ever flipped throus