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Stardust [Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Willie NelsonAudio CD
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (October 19, 1999)
  • Original Release Date: 1978
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B0000296J3
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (151 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,932 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Willie Nelson has never been one to do the safe or expected, and this Booker T. Jones-produced album of pop standards from the '30s and '40s certainly fits the profile. It's also one of the better albums of Nelson's career, allowing Willie to dip his fragile, quivering tenor all around the beat in songs like "All of Me" and "Unchained Melody." Jones's organ, piano, and string arrangements are low-key and swinging (except on the almost wooden "On the Sunny Side of the Street"), and Nelson's vocals on "Georgia on My Mind" and "Moonlight in Vermont" are filled with a dignified and slightly jazzy country soul. The 1999 reissue adds a pair of bonus cuts to the mix, including the lullaby-like "Scarlet Ribbons" and the somewhat out-of-place "I Can See Clearly Now." --David Cantwell

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Media Type: CD
Artist: NELSON,WILLIE
Title: STARDUST
Street Release Date: 10/19/1999
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Genre: COUNTRY

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Of the many great albums that Willie Nelson has recorded, this one is my favorite. Bill Matheny  |  30 reviewers made a similar statement
I bought three copies of this cd., one for me other's for friends. M. Brandon  |  27 reviewers made a similar statement
The sound was good quality and I have been looking for this particular album. Walt3  |  19 reviewers made a similar statement
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51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Willie Nelson Shines Bright on STARDUST February 21, 2000
Format:Audio CD
Over the last few years we've been bombarded with one unnecessary CD that remakes American standards after another. Ughh! I can only think of two artists who honor these songs while still making contemporary albums: Steve Tyrell's A NEW STANDARD and, best of all, Willie Nelson's STARDUST. Re-discovering this album, complete with two new tracks, is a joy. Of the many great albums that Willie Nelson has recorded, this one is my favorite. It sounds just as good today as it did twenty years ago, and I suspect it will sound the same in another twenty years. I am living proof that you don't have to listen to standards on a regular basis - if ever - to love this album. STARDUST is an absolute gem that gets better every time you play it. Bravo, Willie!
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
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Country artists taking on pop standards wasn't a new idea when Willie Nelson released the ten tracks of 1978's Stardust LP. Ferlin Husky had released an entire album's worth on 1957's Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and other country stars regularly drew from the Great American Songbook. Nelson himself had recorded "That Lucky Old Sun" two years earlier for his The Sound in Your Mind LP. What made Stardust so audacious was the confluence of Nelson's iconoclastic career and the times in which the album was released. Where his outlaw compadre Waylon Jennings had directly confronted Nashville, Nelson vented his subversion by retreating to Texas, and waxing concept albums like Phases and Stages and The Red Headed Stranger.

Nelson's previous release, the 1977 tribute to Lefty Frizzell, To Lefty From Willie, didn't straightforwardly set the stage for an album of standards, but the depth of his song selections, the respect he showed the material, and his idiosyncratic phrasing revealed an interpretive stylist whose talent stretched well beyond his own words. With the outlaw country movement in full swing, Nelson's choice to drop an album of classic American pop was perhaps the most revolutionary move of his career. Recorded with his band and produced by Booker T. Jones, Nelson re-contextualized the songs to expose their common roots in the American experience, much as Ray Charles had managed with 1962's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music.

Predictably, Columbia's brass didn't have a clue, yet the album turned into the biggest success of Nelson's career, producing a pair of chart-topping singles ("Blue Skies" and "Georgia on My Mind," the latter snagging a Grammy®) and the #3 "All of Me," sold millions of copies, and stuck to the country album chart for over ten years! The album's crossover success wasn't quite as pronounced, though it did stay two years on the pop album chart. Nelson's vision brought the songs of Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, George & Ira Gershwin, and others to a new audience and a new generation. He did this by staying true to both the songs and his own art, blending together a reverence for the compositions with his personal musical style.

The arrangements include several of Nelson's trademark sounds, including Mickey Raphael's harmonica and Nelson's gut-string guitar; Booker T's organ adds soul, jazz and gospel notes throughout. Nelson's band proves itself superb company for pop standards, able to underline the vocals and swing ever-so-lightly as needed. The results are a perfect rendering of pop standards in the Willie Nelson style. As strongly as these tracks took hold with the public, they exerted an even deeper spell on Nelson, who continued to record from the pop songbook for years to come, including 1981's Somewhere Over the Rainbow LP.

Columbia/Legacy's 30th anniversary edition of Stardust includes a second CD of sixteen additional standards waxed by Nelson between 1976's The Sound in Your Mind and 1990's Born For Trouble. Drawn from across fifteen years, there's more variety and less cohesion between the arrangements, which makes disc two less an album and more an opportunity to hear Nelson's evolving creativity. Few of these tracks measure up to the inspiration of the original Stardust, but there are highlights, including a gypsy-jazz country-blue version of "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)," a downbeat, pre-Stardust take of "Lucky Old Sun," and a romantically yearning cover of "Mona Lisa" that features guitar runs reminiscent of Anton Karas' zither in The Third Man. Completists should note that neither of the bonus tracks from the 1999 Stardust reissue ("Scarlet Ribbons" and "I Can See Clearly Now") are included here. New liner notes from Rich Kienzle are worth reading, but with the original album a five-star release on its own, it's really difficult to make improvements. [©2008 hyperbolium dot com]
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5.0 out of 5 stars Super songs by a subtle, super singer... May 18, 2004
Format:Audio CD
On this record, Willie proved that his favorite items from "The Great American Songbook" were good enough to survive his distinctive phrasing and country/blues accompaniment organized by his buddy, Booker T., the producer. Mostly mellow, this album gives you 45 minutes of quiet pleasure. The songs were designed for pop, jazz or Broadway treatments, but Willie proved he could do them justice in his own sweet way. I had a boss who purchased this one when it came out in 1978 or so, and played it for me one day. I was barely conscious of Willie back then, but I knew the material from more traditional renditions. While I did not rush out to buy this at the time, it was because it was a tight budget year, not because I didn't like it. Now I've just acquired it, 25 years on, yet both Willie and the songs survive. If you like Nelson, this CD is one of the essentials. If you like "The Great American Songbook" this version of some of the best from that body of work is also essential. Here, Willie invented a style that melds jazz, pop, country, folk, blues and Broadway. Play "Red-Headed Stranger" and follow it with this one, and you have all the evidence one needs that Mr. Nelson is an immortal in the roster of great American music-makers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I love it.
Years ago I had a cassette of Willie Nelson that I fell in love with, This is it! Nice easy listening!
Published 9 days ago by Lynn A. Irish
5.0 out of 5 stars Willie's best love songs in the correct playback order.
A must have if you drive a convertible in the evening with the top down on a warm summer night.
Published 11 days ago by NWmind
5.0 out of 5 stars Sentimental
I listened to this album growing up, having it in my cloud was an easy decision. There is no version of September Song that holds a candle to Willie's. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Steph May
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Stardusty Album from Willie Nelson
This is one of his best if you like standards. Mellow, fun, reflective, melodic. Willie is eclectic as a performer.
Published 14 days ago by writerwinterlight
4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Songs
His voice gets just a little tedious in its unchanging emotion,but even so it's a great album because of the selection of material.
Published 15 days ago by Joyce Myrus
5.0 out of 5 stars I could listen to Willie Nelson sing the phonebook.
I've had the album since it came out in the 80s. I decided it was time to get a CD for the truck. Some of the best old tunes from the 40s are on this disc. Read more
Published 15 days ago by Leigh Van Kirk
5.0 out of 5 stars WILLIE NELSON SINGS THE STANDARDS
I have owned the vinyl album of this CD for years. I recently visited a doctor who plays music for his patients. Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Willie Nelson Stardust album
Very slow and ponderous. All the songs of same tempo and type. Arrangements boring. I have already given it away.
Published 22 days ago by Joan Wyde
5.0 out of 5 stars As good as ever!
I bought the LP years ago and practically wore it out. I bought the CD so I could put it on a mobile device and listen to it again. Still fabulous!
Published 22 days ago by Sam's Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars ah, memories
My college friends and I listened to this album endlessly and it brings back all the warm feelings of that time.
Published 23 days ago by A.A. Milne
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