Willie Nelson - Remember Me Vol.1 (2011)

01. Remember Me					play
02. Sixteen Tons
03. Why Baby Why
04. Today I Started Loving You Again
05. Movin’ On
06. That Just About Does It
07. This Old House
08. Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down
09. Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
10. Slowly
11. Satisfied Mind
12. Roly Poly					play
13. Release Me
14. Ramblin’ Fever

Willie Nelson wraps his unmistakable vocal cords around 14 country hits spanning 1946 to 1989, serving up mainstream yang to last year’s collector yin, the T Bone Burnett-produced “Country Music” album. In that outing, equally dedicated to high points from country music’s past, the Red Headed Stranger focused on more obscure gems that he and Burnett plucked from the country archives.

This time around, producer James Stroud envelops Nelson’s elastic voice in tasty, staunchly traditional arrangements of George Jones’ first hit (“Why Baby Why”), Tennessee Ernie Ford’s signature No. 1 single (“Sixteen Tons”) and Hank Snow’s theme song (“I’m Movin’ On”). Nelson and Stroud take a surprisingly jaunty stroll through Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” then get things hot and swinging in Tex Williams’ classic condemnation of the evils of nicotine, “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette).”

Nelson reaches deepest, however, when the tempo slows for Webb Pierce’s “Slowly,” Vern Gosdin’s aching “That Just About Does It” and Merle Haggard’s exquisite essay on the wounds love can leave, “Today I Started Loving You Again.” At 78, Nelson reminds us that his deceptively effortless vocal style can still touch the heart. Volume II is due next year. --- Randy Lewis, latimesblogs.latimes.com

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