Funny How Time Slips Away is also one of those 'wait, Willie Nelson wrote that?' kind of songs just as great here as when Elvis would tackle it a decade later. A totally different vibe from the Patsy Cline hit, and yet no less filled with emotion. Still, one could be forgiven for picking this one up blind and assuming it's a greatest hits or something compiled later on down the line.Ĭrazy is, of course, iconic. If there's anything keeping this record from true greatness, it's that a lot of the grooves are a bit samey (loping country blues is great, but 12 times in a row?). The idiosyncratic phrasing, the hits for other artists, and that iconic voice. Willie's first album, and the pieces are (almost!) all here. 'Darkness on the Face of the Earth' 2:19Īnd so it begins. 'Undo the Right' Hank Cochran, Nelson 2:56ĥ. The single 'Touch Me' became Nelson's second top ten, reaching number 7 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles.Īll tracks are written by Willie Nelson, except where noted.Ĥ. The single releases of the album 'Touch Me' and 'The Part Where I Cry' were recorded on that day in Nashville, Tennessee, while it was completed during September in the recording facilities of the label in Los Angeles, California. During August, Nelson started recording his first album, produced by Joe Allison. Several of his songs became hits for other artists, including Faron Young ('Hello Walls') Ray Price ('Night Life') and Patsy Cline ('Crazy').įueled by the success of his songwriting, he was signed by Liberty Records. After his composition 'Family Bible' became a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, he moved to Nashville, where he was signed by Pamper Music as a songwriter. And Then I Wrote is the debut studio album by country singer Willie Nelson, recorded during August and September 1962 and released through Liberty Records.ĭespite Nelson's fruitless efforts to succeed with his recording releases with D Records, and after trying with other labels as a singer, he sold several of his original written songs to other artists. His musical influences were Hank Williams, Bob Wills, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, Django Reinhardt, Frank Sinatra, and Louis Armstrong. Nelson disliked picking cotton, so he earned money by singing in dance halls, taverns, and honky tonks from age 13, which he continued through high school. During the summer, the family picked cotton alongside other Abbott residents. He wrote his first song at age seven, and when he was nine, he played guitar for local band Bohemian Polka. Nelson's grandfather bought him a guitar when he was six, and taught him a few chords, and Nelson sang gospel songs in the local church alongside Bobbie. His mother left soon after he was born, and his father remarried and also moved away, leaving Nelson and his sister Bobbie to be raised by their grandparents, who taught singing back in Arkansas and started their grandchildren in music. His grandfather, William, worked as a blacksmith, while his father worked as a mechanic. His parents moved to Texas from Arkansas in 1929 to look for work. Nelson traces his genealogy to the American Revolutionary War, in which his ancestor John Nelson served as a major. He was named Willie by his cousin Mildred, who also chose Hugh as his middle name, in honor of her recently deceased younger brother. His birth was incorrectly recorded by Dr. Retrieved 20 November 2021.Nelson was born in Abbott, Texas, on April 29, 1933, the son of Myrle Marie (née Greenhaw) and Ira Doyle Nelson.

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^ 'Woolpackers: Artist Chart History'.

^ 'Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100'.

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^ a b Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll (UK CD single liner notes).

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^ a b Masterton, James (10 November 1996).The quasi-country singalong single Hillbilly Rock, Hillbilly Roll.

The track stayed in the UK top 20 for nine weeks and was the country's 41st-best-selling single of 1996. 'Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll' was released as a single in the UK on 4 November 1996 and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, earning a silver sales certification the same year for shipping over 200,000 units in the UK alone. The song was created as an attempt to cash in on the line dancing trend that was prominent in the United Kingdom at the time using three actors from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale: Steve Halliwell, Billy Hartman, and Alun Lewis, who performed the song on an episode of the programme. ' Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll' is a song by English country rock trio the Woolpackers, written by Eddie Phillips and Bob Garner of the Creation and produced by Nigel Wright.

'Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll' on YouTube

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