Willie Nelson - It Will Always Be

180-gram vinyl

Willie Nelson's acclaimed 2004 album It Always Will Be

LP releases continue the vinyl series in celebration of Willie Nelson's 90th birthday!

Continuing the yearlong celebration of Willie Nelson's 90th birthday, UMe has added two additional titles to its extensive vinyl campaign of the legend's UMG catalog: on November 10 Willie's beloved 2001 kid-friendly album, Rainbow Connection, will be released on vinyl for the first time ever and his acclaimed It Always Will Be, previously released as a double LP in 2004, will be reissued on vinyl as a single LP.

The vinyl series, which kicked off June 23 with his 2002 collaborative album, The Great Divide, was followed by 1998's acclaimed, cinematic, Daniel Lanois-produced Teatro on August 4 in honor of its 25th anniversary. Willie's 2000 ode to the blues, Milk Cow Blues, was just released September 15 as a double LP, while 1996's stripped-back and emotionally raw Spirit will bow on October 20, just ahead of the American icon's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on November 3. The Great Divide and Milk Cow Blues join Rainbow Connection in making their vinyl debuts while Teatro and Spirit return to vinyl due to popular demand after being available in limited capacity but now long out-of-print.

Upon its release in 2004 on Lost Highway, Willie's 52nd studio album, It Always Will Be, was hailed by Pitchfork as sounding "just as timely and timeless as anything he's done," remarking it "resembles late-70s/early-80s Nelson albums such as Always on My Mind both in its impressively diverse mix of originals and covers and in its easygoing sound." The album, produced by James Stroud, includes a poignant, plainspoken cover of Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan's "Picture In A Frame," a high octane performance of the Allman Brother Band's "Midnight Rider," wonderful duets with Lucinda Williams ("Overtime"), Norah Jones ("Dreams Come True"), and Toby Keith("Tired"), Willie's daughter, Paula Nelson ("Be That As It May"), and a handful of newly penned originals: the mellow Texas country title track, the mariachi-inflected "Texas" and the somber "My Broken Heart Belongs To You," among the many highlights.

 

Side A

It Will Always Be

Picture In A Frame

The Way You See Me

Be That As It May (feat. Paula Nelson)

You Were It

Big Booty

I Didn't Come Here (And I Ain't Leavin')

Side B

My Broken Heart Belongs To You

Dreams Come True (feat. Norah Jones)

Overtime (feat. Lucinda Williams)

Tired

Love's The One And Only Thing

Texas

Midnight Rider

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