A Sad Day

Well, it’s a sad day. I now own 93 Willie Nelson albums of original material, and if you add the compilations, I own 111. But today I seem to have hit the wall. I can’t get my hands on anything new. There are a few albums still out there that I know of, but I just can’t get my hands on them:

“Walking the Line” (1977)—album with George Jones and Merle Haggard

“The Electric Horesman” (1979) (movie soundtrack)--$99 used on Amazon (a bit pricey)

“Music From ‘Songwriter’” (1984)—movie soundtrack—I can find the movie but not the soundtrack

“Pancho, Lefty, and Rudolph” (1995)—Christmas album with Merle Haggard; not sure if this is just a compilation or original versions

“Willie Nelson and Eddie Rabbit” (2000)—I think this is a compilation

“Georgia on My mind” (2001)— I think this is a compilation

“Good Hearted Woman” (2001)— I think this is a compilation

“Gravedigger” (2007)—not sure what this is

I would also like to get the Bear Family compilations:

“Nashville was the Roughest” (1998)

“It’s Been Rough and Rocky Travelin’” (2003)

But they may just compile stuff I already have, and they are pricey ($100+ used on Amazon).

And there are about a dozen live shows available on USB keys in wristbands available on-line, but they are $30 a pop, so I’m not ready to buy all of those just yet.

I have not reviewed and do not own the individual albums for “And Then I Wrote” and “Here’s Willie Nelson,” but I think all of this material appears on “The Complete Liberty Recordings,” which I own and have reviewed.

Tomorrow I may need to start re-listening to the cds I have already reviewed and/or start reviewing the best versions of certain songs (ie., ranking the best versions of “Whiskey River”). I may also start revising, cleaning up, and polishing my previous blogs in light of further listening (and with the almost-entire oeuvre under my belt). I thought I’d make it longer, but it is still pretty impressive to go six months with listening to a new album (or disc of a multi-disc album) almost every day. That’s a lot of Willie Nelson. According to my ITUNES (and I think I’ve loaded all of my albums onto my computer), I have 1,664 Willie Nelson songs, which makes for 3.7 days of music and takes up 9.7 gigs of memory, so it won’t quite fit on my 8 gig nano IPOD. That said, several of these songs are duplicates because they appear on original albums and on compilations.