Willie Nelson - Milk Cow Blues

One of four vintage Willie Nelson albums vinyl reissues

Celebration continues for Willie's 90th birthday!

Releases focus on albums from the 1990s and 2000s

Milk Cow Blues first time on 180-gram vinyl double LP!

Four classic albums by music superstar Willie Nelson are to be released on vinyl, some for the first time, as celebrations of the country hero's recent 90th birthday continue.

The releases focus on albums of Nelson's from the 1990s and 2000s and begin on June 23 with his 2002 collaborative album The Great Divide, first issued by Lost Highway. This is followed on August 4 by a 25th anniversary reissue of 1998's acclaimed and cinematic Teatro, produced by Daniel Lanois. Nelson's 2000 ode to the blues, Milk Cow Blues, will return on September 15 as a double LP, before 1996's stripped-back, emotionally raw Spirit completes the set on October 20, just before his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on November 3, 2023.

The Great Divide and Milk Cow Blues have never been available on vinyl before, while Teatro and Spirit return to the format due to popular demand, having been available in limited volume, but now long out-of-print.

Milk Cow Blues had Nelson backed by the Antone's blues band and his harmonica player Mickey Raphael, on a collection of blues standards and original compositions, including bluesy interpretations of some of his classics and earliest tracks. He was joined by B.B. King on the blues great's "The Thrill Has Gone," by Dr. John on "Black Night," and vocalist Francine Reed on Willie's "Funny (How Time Slips Away)" and the scene-setting title track. Guests included modern-day blues flag-bearers such as Keb Mo, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Jonny Lang, and Susan Tedeschi.

Side A

Milk Cow Blues

Outskirts Of Town

Black Night

Funny (How Times Slips Away)

Side B

Rainy Day Blues

Crazy

The Thrill Is Gone

Wake Me When It’s Over

Side C

Kansas City

Fool’s Paradise

Ain’t Nobody’s Business

Night Life

Side D

Sittin’ On Top Of The World

Lonely Street

Texas Flood

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