Willie Nelson – Always on my Mind (Translucent Red Vinyl)
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Willie Nelson – guitar, vocals [click here to see more vinyl featuring Willie Nelson]
Gene Chrisman – drums
Johnny Christopher – guitar, backing vocals
Bobby Emmons – keyboards
Mike Leech – bass guitar
John Marett – saxophone
Grady Martin – guitar
Chips Moman – guitar, backing vocals, producer, engineer
Mickey Raphael – harmonica
Gary Talley – vocals
Toni Wine – keyboards, vocals
Bobby Wood – keyboards, vocals
Reggie Young – guitar
Waylon Jennings – vocal (A3)
1LP, Gatefold jacket
Original analog Master tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : Translucent Red
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12'’
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : Friday Music
Original Label : Columbia
Engineered by David Cherry, Larry Greenhill
Produced by Chips Moman
Mastered by Joe Reagoso at Friday Music Studios
Originally released in 1982
Reissued in 2019
Tracks:
Side A:
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man
- Always On My Mind
- A Whiter Shade of Pale
- Let It Be Me
- Each Other Down
Side B:
- Bridge Over troubled Water
- Old Fords and A Natural Stone
- Permanently Lonely
- Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning
- The Party's Over
Reviews:
“Whether intentionally or not, the first album after a greatest-hits collection always raises the curtain on a new era, and in Willie Nelson's case, the difference between the era recapped on 1981's Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be) and the one started with 1982's Always on My Mind is startling. Throughout the late '70s, Nelson's freewheeling, organically eclectic music was not just the biggest thing in country, it was also some of its best, most adventurous music. Sometimes, it could fall a little flat, particularly when he kept replicating Stardust, but that was part of the charm of Nelson's unpredictability. With Always on My Mind, he teams with producer Chips Moman and embarks on a period of pernicious predictability, giving himself completely over to Moman, who moves him toward rock covers and adult contemporary pop with this record. At the time, it was a huge, huge hit -- his biggest ever, actually, spending 22 weeks at the top of the country charts, selling over four million copies, launching a platinum single with the title track (which reached number five on the pop charts), and winning the CMA's Album of the Year award. Listening to it now, all that success seems undeserved since the album not only plays as the country-pop record Willie avoided making all these years, but by consisting primarily of familiar rock covers, it also plays as pandering to the mass audience he's achieved. This is uniformly pleasant, but it's also rather straight-jacketed, hemmed in by Moman's sterile, synth-heavy productions. With "Always on My Mind" and, to a lesser extent, "Let It Be Me," it works because his production style suits the songs and Nelson sings well, but "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (complete with vocals from Waylon Jennings), and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" are all flat readings, never showing the spark in either delivery or arrangement that marks Nelson as one of popular music's great interpretive singers. Here, he sounds as he's sleepwalking and turning out product for the first time in his career (at least the early Liberty recordings were a hungry attempt at hits). It may have been a hit, but years later, it clearly sounds like one of his worst records.” AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ratings :
AllMusic : 2 / 5 ; Discogs : 3.89 / 5