- Audio CD (Aug 5 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Fusion
- ASIN: B000083MF7
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #76,403 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Opportunity To Cry |
| 2. Three Days |
| 3. Undo The Right |
| 4. What Do You Think Of Her Now |
| 5. I've Just Destroyed The World |
| 6. Permanently Lonely |
| 7. Are You Sure |
| 8. Darkness On The Face Of The Earth |
| 9. Things To Remember |
| 10. A Moment Isn't Very Long |
| 11. Crazy |
| 12. The Local Memory |
| 13. I Gotta Get Drunk |
| 14. Something To Think About |
| 15. I'm Still Here |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
When Willie Nelson first arrived in Nashville in 1960, he was a funny-looking, slightly pudgy Texan with dreams of making it as a singer and songwriter. He found work writing songs (for $50 a week) for Ray Price and Hal Smith's publishing company, Pamper Music. Crazy: The Demo Sessions contains 18 of the demo recordings Nelson made for Pamper between 1960 and 1966, including the famous title cut, which Nelson's friend Hank Cochran pitched to Patsy Cline in 1961. Cline knew a good song when she heard one, and she even mimicked Nelson's now-famous style of singing slightly behind the beat. Crazy contains a number of recordings that Nelson would revisit over the years, including "Opportunity to Cry," "I've Just Destroyed the World," "Darkness on the Face of the Earth," and "Half a Man." (To hear more of the Pamper recordings, check out Rhino's superb 1995 box set, A Classic & Unreleased Collection.) The tracks here are exquisite--many of them feature just Nelson and his guitar, with a sound that is much closer to his stripped-down Red Headed Stranger period than his 1960s recordings for RCA. One of the highlights is a definitive reading of the previously unreleased demo "Something to Think About," a spellbinding tearjerker featuring the great Hargus "Pig" Robbins on piano and Buddy Emmons on pedal steel. --David Hill
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Document of a Great Artist,
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This review is from: Crazyemo Sessions (Audio CD)
You'd have to be crazy not to love it. I don't know where they dug up source material with sound this good, but this is the real deal: beutifully performed and recorded demos of classic Willie Nelson. Absolutely essential for country music lovers.
4.0 out of 5 stars
For anyone who's ever wondered . . .,
By David C Miller (Euless, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crazyemo Sessions (Audio CD)
. . . about Willie's reputation as a songwriter, check this out. In addition to the title song, "Opportunity to Cry," "Permanently Lonely," "Darkness on the Face of the Earth," and "Half a Man (hidden track)" are all magnificently written. And I know that you can get all of those songs in other versions on other Willie CDs, but here, you get them stripped down, sometimes with no accompaniment but Willie's guitar. The result is that you are forced to focus on the songs, and you begin to see what makes them truly great. In other words, it doesn't take Patsy Cline's beautiful voice surrounded by Owen Bradley's production values to see (or hear) that "Crazy" is a great, great song.This is an important discovery of the early stages of one of America's greatest songwriters.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A major historical find on a major artist,
By hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crazyemo Sessions (Audio CD)
This collection of Nelson's earliest Nashville demo recordings shows just how advanced his songwriting and performing abilities had become by the time he made it to Music City. They also show very plainly why a full-on artistic collision awaited him at Liberty and RCA. These unadorned demo sessions (the first eight feature mostly Nelson and his acoustic guitar, the remaining tracks find Nelson backed by a talented and twangy collection of Nashville studio pickers) are full of Nelson's intelligent songwriting and idiosyncratic phrasing, demonstrating the difference between what Nelson wanted to say and what Nashville wanted to hear. These demos are like a snapshot taken seconds before the straightjacket was fitted on him at Liberty and the straps tightened down at RCA.Many of these songs provided material for Nelson's early albums, including "Three Days," "Undo the Right" and "Darkness of the Face of the Earth" (re-recorded for Nelson's 1962 Liberty debut "And Then I Wrote"), "Are You Sure" (re-recorded for Nelson's 1965 RCA debut, "Country Willie - His Own Songs"), and "Opportunity to Cry," "Permanently Lonely" and "Something to Think About" (re-recorded in a live setting for 1966's "Live Country Music Concert"). Several provided material for then-contemporary artists such as Ray Price and Timi Yuro ("Are You Sure"), Faron Young ("Things to Remember" "A Moment Isn't Very Long"), and of course Patsy Cline ("Crazy"). This latter demo, of the iconic "Crazy," is among the album's most interesting. Nelson's phrasing, highly influenced by Sinatra and other crooners, gives hints of the style in which Cline (and her producer, Owen Bradley) would cut her most famous recording. At the same time, Nelson's own style must also be listened through to hear the hit. Comparing the demo to Cline's finished product is a valuable lesson in what each of songwriter, singer and producer add to a hit record. Even more fascinating is how much these demos reflect the sound that Nelson would eventually record once he'd broken free of Nashville's conventions. "The Local Memory" would turn up on Nelson's 1973 debut for Atlantic, "Shotgun Willie." "Opportunity to Cry" was re-recorded with Merle Haggard for 1982's "Pancho & Lefty," and "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" was featured on Nelson's 1998 release, "Teatro." Nelson's earliest catalog of songs has also provided material for contemporary artists, with recent takes of these songs by k.d. lang and Waylon Jennings ("Three Days"), Tracy Byrd and Wade Hayes ("Undo the Right"), and George Jones ("I Gotta Get Drunk"). Sugar Hill's collection includes an unlisted sixteenth bonus track that itself includes three more songs, a video interview with songwriter Hank Cochran, informative historical liner notes by Steve Fishell, and song-by-song annotations. The mono sound is clean and compelling, and more than half of these tracks have never before been issued commercially. These tracks are a major find in the history of a major artist -- a must-have for any Willie Nelson fan.
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