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| Released | 1975 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | United Artists | |||
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Country Willie is a 1975 compilation album by country singer Willie Nelson. It was issued by United Artists Records, the successor label to Liberty Records. [1]
In 1975, despite recording for Liberty, Monument, RCA and Atlantic, Willie Nelson had finally found major mainstream success as a recording artist. As RCA did after Willie signed with Atlantic, United Artists Records began reissuing Willie Nelson tracks it had in their vaults.[ citation needed ]
The first reissue from United Artists, The Best Of Willie Nelson , was a reconfigured version of his 1962 debut for Liberty, ...And Then I Wrote , with "Half A Man", from his second Liberty album, Here's Willie Nelson , added. For this album, United Artists gathered six previously unreleased songs, two songs from Here's Willie Nelson , and two songs issued only as singles. Among the unreleased songs was a duet with his then-wife, Shirley Collie: "Columbus Stockade Blues". Unfortunately, she is not credited on the LP.[ citation needed ]
Despite not charting, this album was reissued at least twice in the 1980s: by a newly reactivated Liberty Records around 1980 (LN-10013), and on CD (alongside The Best Of Willie Nelson ) by EMI-Manhattan in 1988 (CDP7 48399 2).[ citation needed ]
All selections previously unreleased except as indicated.
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