Just One Love

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Just One Love
Willie-Nelson-Just-One-Love.jpg
Studio album by
Released1995
Genre Country
Length38:13
Label Justice [1]
Producer Grady Martin [2]
Willie Nelson chronology
Healing Hands of Time
(1994)
Just One Love
(1995)
Augusta
(1995)

Just One Love is a studio album by the American country singer Willie Nelson, released in 1995. [3] [4] Ten of the songs are covers of pre-rock 'n' roll country and honky tonk. [5]

Contents

Just One Love includes two duets with Kimmie Rhodes. [6] "Eight More Miles to Louisville" is a cover of the Grandpa Jones song. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Entertainment Weekly B [10]
The Indianapolis Star Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album finds Nelson "veering between simple elegance and somnambulism." [10] The Washington Post deemed it "a superb, old-fashioned honky-tonk album." [11]

Track listing

  1. "Just One Love" (Kimmie Rhodes) - 4:03
  2. "Each Night at Nine" (Floyd Tillman)- 2:21
  3. "This Cold Cold War with You" (Floyd Tillman)- 2:52
  4. "Better Left Forgotten" (Chip Young)- 3:05
  5. "It's a Sin" (Fred Rose, Zeb Turner) - 2:02
  6. "Four Walls" (George Campbell, Marvin Moore) - 4:12
  7. "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" (Merle Travis, Tex Williams) - 2:54
  8. "I Just Drove By" (Kimmie Rhodes) - 4:12
  9. "Cold, Cold Heart" (Hank Williams) - 3:10
  10. "Bonaparte's Retreat" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart)- 2:07
  11. "Alabam" (Lloyd "Cowboy" Copas) - 2:38
  12. "Eight More Miles to Louisville" (Louis "Grandpa" Jones)- 2:16

Personnel

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