Description
Editor's Pick, Recording Of The Month — Stereophile, March 2018!
Willie's 1978 take on his favorite pop standards
Includes his classic versions of "Stardust" "Georgia On My Mind" and others
Mastered from the original analog tapes by Bernie Grundman
180-gram double LPs plated and pressed by Quality Record Pressings!
Heavyweight gatefold tip-on old-style jacket from Stoughton Printing
Willie Nelson has long been honored as a genuine legend, and his songs and concerts are loved worldwide. Though his roots are in country, Willie's musical influences are as broad as the Texas skies, unlimited to any one genre.
"These are my favorite songs. My favorite all-time songs," Willie says. "I knew there were millions of people who liked these songs and would love to hear them again. I grew up with them… they're some of the first songs I learned to play."
Here is the familiar Stardust, yet in a way so striking from any versions that have come before. For starters, for this Analogue Productions reissue we turned to the masters, literally. We insisted on the master tapes and no less a skilled mastering engineer than the award-winning Bernie Grundman to cut the lacquers for this project. Then, naturally, we put Gary Salstrom and his crew at Quality Record Pressings to work to plate and press the finest-sounding 180-gram LPs. We bring them to you housed in a heavyweight tip-on, old style gatefold jacket from Stoughton Printing. Unmatched quality; unmatched sound — that's the way Analogue Productions rolls.
