Big Willie’s Styles.
by: Jeff Gordinier
October 2, 1998
Get ready for Willie Nelson to trade in those ponytails for dreadlocks: Although the mystic cowboy is landing rave reviews for his Daniel Lanois – produced Teatro album, he plans to put out two more platters whenever the smoke clears.
“There’s a reggae album in the can and a blues album in the can,” Nelson says. “So one of those will be next.” A while back, the Kennedy Center honoree whipped up the Rasta-man vibrations with producer Don Was in Jamaica, then fired up original original tunes and chestnuts like “Kansas City” and “The Thrill is Gone” with an A team of Texas blues-meisters in Austin. Nelson says the executive shuffle at Island Records — founder Chris Blackwell left in 1997 – and the prospect of cutting Teatro wound up putting the other stuff on hold. “Lanois came along and it was an opportunity,” Nelson explains. “So the reggae and the blues had to wait.” Not in vain, we hope. — Jeff Gordinier
1. Do you Mind Too Much If I don’t Understand
2. How Long is Forever?
3. I’m a Worried Man” (featuring Toots Hibbert)
4. The Harder They Come
5. Something to Think About
6. Sitting in Limbo
7. Darkness on the Face of the Earth
8. One in a Row
9. I’ve Just Destroyed the World I’m Living In
10. You Left Me a Long, Long Time Ago
11. I Guess I’ve Come to Live Here
12. Undo the Right
