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Joy - Willie Nelson & Friends

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Texas swing, blues, ragtime, jazz, country, string-laden ballads, and Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring comprise this set of songs that features friends of Willie Nelson, with Nelson playing lead on an instrumental "Sweet Georgia Brown" and lending backup or lead vocals to "Dirty Thunder" (the Fryed Brothers), "It's Magic" (the Dean Martin-esque Don Cherry), "The Gypsy" (Jackie King), and "I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal" (the Honky Tonk Heroes). He's showcasing here -- this is a compilation of songs from ten albums put out by the Freefalls label -- but the talent's exceptional and, although one wouldn't want to say he's hardly missed on the tracks he doesn't contribute to, the styles are so varied that he couldn't possibly fit into all of them. ~ Travis Drageset, All Music Guide

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Willie Nelson & Friends (101 Albums)

  • Heroes
  • Before His Time/Angel Eyes
  • Country Music Concert/The Willie Way
  • Make Way for Willie Nelson/My Own Peculiar Way
  • My Own Way/The Minstrel Man
  • American Classic
  • Dove Collection
  • Georgia On My Mind
  • The Great Divide
  • Wishes You a Merry Christmas
  • Teatro
  • Healing Hands of Time
  • Six Hours at Pedernales
  • Honeysuckle Rose [CBS]
  • Take It to the Limit
  • A Horse Called Music
  • Across the Borderline
  • Always on My Mind
  • And Then I Wrote
  • Angel Eyes
  • Artist's Choice: Willie Nelson
  • Best of Cash and Nelson
  • Born for Trouble
  • Both Sides Now
  • Brand on My Heart
  • Christmas with Willie Nelson
  • City of New Orleans
  • Country Favorites, Willie Nelson Style
  • Country Music
  • Country Willie: His Own Songs
  • Countryman
  • Funny How Time Slips Away
  • Good Hearted Woman
  • Good Times
  • Gravedigger
  • Here We Go Again: Celebrating the Genius of Ray Charles
  • Here's Willie Nelson
  • Hill Country Christmas
  • How Great Thou Art
  • Island in the Sea
  • It Always Will Be
  • Joy
  • Just One Love
  • Last of the Breed
  • Laying My Burdens Down
  • Live Country Music Concert
  • Live at Billy Bob's Texas
  • Live from the Last of the Breed Tour
  • Make Way for Willie Nelson
  • Me and Paul
  • Me and the Drummer
  • Milk Cow Blues
  • Moment of Forever
  • Moonlight Becomes You
  • Music from
  • My Own Peculiar Way
  • Night and Day
  • Old Friends
  • One for the Road
  • Outlaws and Angels
  • Pancho & Lefty
  • Pancho, Lefty and Rudolph
  • Partners
  • Phases and Stages
  • Pretty Paper
  • Rainbow Connection
  • Red Headed Stranger
  • Remember Me, Vol. 1
  • Run That By Me One More Time
  • San Antonio Rose
  • Seashores of Old Mexico
  • Shotgun Willie
  • Sings Kris Kristofferson
  • Somewhere over the Rainbow
  • Songbird
  • Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia
  • Spirit
  • Stardust
  • Stars & Guitars
  • Tales Out of Luck
  • Texas in My Soul
  • The Electric Horseman
  • The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?
  • The Party's Over and Other Great Willie Nelson Songs
  • The Promiseland
  • The Sound in Your Mind
  • The Troublemaker
  • The Willie Way
  • The Words Don't Fit the Picture
  • To Lefty from Willie
  • Tougher Than Leather
  • Two Men with the Blues
  • What a Wonderful World
  • Willie Nelson & Eddie Rabbitt
  • Willie Nelson & Family
  • Willie Nelson & Friends: Live and Kickin'
  • Willie and Family Live
  • Willie and the Wheel
  • Without a Song
  • Yesterday's Wine
  • You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
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