Editorial Review:

All Music Guide
Navigating Willie Nelson's immense body of recordings can be daunting even for committed fans. There is so much music and so much of it good that it's hard to keep straight, especially as each of his many eras has been compiled, collected, and reissued countless time, leading to a discography thick with redundancies — and then there's the stubborn fact that for Willie, making music is like breathing, something that comes naturally, something that happens every day, so he keeps building upon that discography, releasing an album or two each year, which only adds to the confusion for neophytes and longtime fans alike. All of this is a roundabout way to say that there are plenty of Willie Nelson albums out there, that there's a surplus of compilations, but of all these, nothing offers such a complete, useful overview of his entire career as Columbia/Legacy's four-disc 2008 box One Hell of a Ride. This is not the first Willie box that Legacy has released, of course — in 1995 they put out the triple-disc Revolutions of Time: The Journey 1975-1993 — but this is the first box to ever attempt a thorough overview of his career, beginning with his earliest singles for Sarg and D, running through the countrypolitan Nashville productions of his Liberty Records and his wonderfully rambling RCA recordings of the '60s, then settling into the star-making sides for Columbia in the '70s and '80s, yet the set doesn't end there, as it runs through his albums for Island and Mercury in the '90s and 2000s. For sheer scope, this beats all, but what makes One Hell of a Ride so useful is that it covers all the ground accurately, picking a blend of hits, concert staples, and relative obscurities to present a career overview that may be illuminating even for serious fans, as this tells a full, complete story with its 100 tracks

Like many great stories, the details may be fudged a bit here — on the second disc the tracks don't quite follow in chronological order — but that doesn't matter because all this tweaking is done in service of the bigger picture, which is as it should be when a picture is this large. Listening to the whole of One Hell of a Ride, it's hard not to marvel yet again at the enormity of Willie's career. If he had only authored the standards "Nite Life," "Crazy," "Hello Walls," and "Funny How Time Slips Away," his place in history would be assured, but this set illustrates how Nelson strengthened the jazzy sophistication underpinning these tunes by digging deeper into Western swing, just as he slyly brought rock, folk, and pop flourishes into his music. By the time the Outlaw years roll around in the midst of the second disc here, his music was hard to peg — certainly it was country, but not in the strictest definition, as it encompassed so much more, from the stark Red Headed Stranger to the lush Stardust, and what is remarkable about One Hell of a Ride is that by listening to it from beginning to end, none of these moves feel forced, all the evolutions feel natural, and the excellent fourth disc — which neatly cherry-picks from a rollercoaster two decades of recordings — illustrates that his evolution did not end when he achieved superstardom, but rather he kept finding new truths in music, sometimes through new tunes, sometimes by revisiting the past, as the nifty book-ending of the set with a new version of his first recording "When I've Sung My Last Hillbilly Song" makes clear. Willie will continue to build upon the legacy offered within this box, but that will not change the fact that this is the best place to learn and appreciate that legacy, and to learn to love it. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Disc 1:

1. When I've Sang My Last Hillbilly Song
2. No Place For Me
3. Man With The Blues
4. Nite Life
5. Hello Walls (Album Version)
6. Funny How Time Slips Away (Album Version)
7. Crazy (Album Version)
8. Half A Man
9. Mr. Record Man
10. One In A Row
11. The Party's Over
12. Texas In My Soul
13. Good Times (Album Version)
14. Sweet Memories
15. Little Things
16. Any Old Arms Won't Do
17. Everybody's Talkin' (Album Version)
18. Pins And Needles (In My Heart)
19. Once More With Feeling
20. I Gotta Get Drunk
21. Laying My Burdens Down
22. What Can You Do To Me Now?
23. Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus
24. I'm A Memory
25. Family Bible
26. Summer Of Roses (Album Version)
27. Yesterday's Wine
28. Me And Paul
29. The Words Don't Fit The Picture

Disc 2:

1. Good Hearted Woman
2. You Left A Long, Long Time Ago
3. She's Not For You
4. You Ought To Hear Me Cry
5. It Should Be Easier Now
6. Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Album Version)
7. If You Can Touch Her At All
8. I Can Get Off On You (Remastered For Buddha - October 30, 2000)
9. Blackjack County Chain
10. Johnny One Time
11. Bring Me Sunshine (Previously Unreleased in the U.S.)
12. I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
13. Shotgun Willie
14. Sad Songs And Waltzes
15. Troublemaker (Album Version)
16. Uncloudy Day (Album Version)
17. Bloody Mary Morning
18. I Still Can't Believe You're Gone
19. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain (Album Version)
20. I'd Have To Be Crazy (Album Version)
21. If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time (Album Version)
22. Always Late (With Your Kisses) (Album Version)
23. She's Gone Gone Gone (Album Version)
24. I Never Go Around Mirrors (Album Version)
25. Stardust (Album Version)
26. Georgia On My Mind (Album Version)
27. A Song For You (Album Version)

Disc 3:

1. Whiskey River (Album Version)
2. Till I Gain Control Again
3. Stay A Little Longer (Album Version)
4. Heartbreak Hotel (Album Version)
5. One For My Baby And One For The Road (Album Version)
6. Help Me Make It Through The Night (Album Version)
7. Midnight Rider (Album Version)
8. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys (Album Version)
9. Crazy Arms (Album Version)
10. On The Road Again (Album Version)
11. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground (Album Version)
12. Mona Lisa (Album Version)
13. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter (Album Version)
14. Always On My Mind (Album Version)
15. Old Friends
16. Pancho And Lefty (Album Version)
17. Reasons To Quit
18. In The Jailhouse Now (Album Version)
19. Why Do I Have To Choose (Album Version)
20. City Of New Orleans (Album Version)
21. To All The Girls I've Loved Before (With Julio Iglesias) (Album Version)
22. Three Days
23. Touch Me

Disc 4:

1. Write Your Own Songs
2. Heart Of Gold
3. I'm Movin' On
4. Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles)
5. Highwayman (Album Version)
6. Living In The Promiseland (Album Version)
7. What A Wonderful World (Album Version)
8. Country Willie
9. Graceland (Album Version)
10. Valentine (Album Version)
11. What Was It You Wanted (Album Version)
12. Still Is Still Moving To Me (Album Version)
13. Too Sick To Pray
14. Everywhere I Go (with Emmylou Harris)
15. My Own Peculiar Way
16. Nuages
17. Rainbow Connection
18. Mendocino County Line
19. The Harder They Come
20. Bubbles In My Beer
21. When I've Sung My Last Hillbilly Song


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