NELSON WILLIE - VINYL STARDUST [VINYL]

Popis - STARDUST [VINYL]:
"Why be predictable?," Willie Nelson asked Columbia Records executive Nick Blackburn, after the latter protested the Red Headed Stranger's decision to make an album of classic pop tunes. Talk about outlaw country. Cutting against the genres traditions, Nelson's Stardust remains a genius-level creation as well as the icon's most commercially successful release-a gorgeous record infused with ultimate respect for composers and many of the finest performances of his career. Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's world-renowned mastering system, this Silver Label LP dazzles with dead-quiet surfaces, tube-like warmth, and an enhanced soundstage. Further exposing the delicate touches abounding in Stax legend Booker T. Jones production, this edition brings out the textured kernels of Nelson's voice-and the deep-seeded dignity, austerity, grit, sensitivity, grace, and plaintiveness within it. In redefining and re-imagining standards such as Irving Berlin's "Blue Skies," Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia On My Mind," and "All of Me"-all of which landed in the Top 5 of the Country singles chart-Nelson weds together pop, country, jazz, folk, and blues in a manner in which no artist had done before. He gained considerable rewards for his exquisite efforts: Stardust sold more than five million copies and stayed on the Country album charts for more than ten years. Jones' superior knowledge of the American Songbook comes through via the materials economy of scale and sympathetic approach. Acoustic arpeggios, contrasting breaks, bluesy harmonicas, glowing organs, R&B-tinged horns, brushed drums, and relaxed bass lines trickle throughout the songs. By all means, this is a record nobody should be without.