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First City Records

Willie Nelson & Family (Campfire Quad Colored Vinyl)

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A1 What Can You Do To Me Now?

 

Written-By – Hank Cochran, Willie Nelson
3:26
A2 Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down

 

Written-By – Kris Kristofferson
5:47
A3 I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry

 

Written-By – Hank Williams
2:23
A4 Fire And Rain

 

Written-By – James Taylor (2)
2:57
A5 Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus 2:44
B1 I’m A Memory 2:24
B2 Yours Love

 

Written-By – Harlan Howard
2:59
B3 I Can Cry Again 2:54
B4 That’s Why I Love Her So 2:29
B5 Today I Started Loving You Again

 

Written-By – Bonnie Owens, Merle Haggard

3:00

 

Sound-wise, 1971’s Willie Nelson & Family is no different than the 11 studio albums that precede it: They are awash in the Countrypolitan sound, with strings, horns and backing singers. But the version of ‘’Sunday Mornin,” complete with its guitar solo — one of the first on Nelson’s legendary Trigger guitar — feels like the first act of defiance and a statement of intent. ‘’If Kris Kristofferson can do this, I can do it too,” Nelson seemed to be saying. Within 18 months, he’d be in New York making Shotgun Willie, free to follow his muse wherever he went, cementing Kristofferson’s outlaw country jumpoff point. And that’s why Willie Nelson & Family is such an interesting artifact: It’s the last album Willie made in his ‘’Before” timeline; it’s the point where he started putting it all together and asserting his creative ideas in tangible ways.