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Album-Release:
2012

HRA-Release:
28.01.2015

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  • 1A Horse Called Music04:37
  • 2Roll Me Up03:25
  • 3That's All There Is To This Song03:20
  • 4No Place To Fly05:07
  • 5Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her02:48
  • 6Come On Up To The House05:16
  • 7Hero04:38
  • 8My Window Faces The South02:33
  • 9The Sound Of Your Memory06:10
  • 10Cold War With You04:40
  • 11Just Breathe04:20
  • 12Home In San Antone04:09
  • 13Come On Back Jesus03:24
  • 14The Scientist05:30
  • Total Runtime59:57

Info for Heroes

Willie Nelson zurück bei Sony Music: mit Heroes gibt der legendäre Outlaw der Countrymusik im Mai 2012 seinen Einstand beim Label Legacy Recordings. Bereits zwischen 1975 und 1993 stand der Texaner bei Columbia Records unter Vertrag, in dieser Zeit veröffentliche er zahlreiche Hitsingles (u.a. die Billboard Top 5 Hits Always On My Mind und To All The Girls I ve Loved Before im Duett mit Julio Iglesias) und erfolgreiche Alben. Ich bin wirklich froh, wieder bei Sony Music zu Hause zu sein , sagt Willie Nelson. Wir waren viele Jahre lang Partner, wir haben eine große gemeinsame Geschichte und ich freue mich auf viele weitere gemeinsame Jahre. Die Karriere des 78-jährigen erstreckt sich über sechs Jahrzehnte, in denen er mehr als 200 Alben veröffentlichte. In dieser Zeit wurde er u.a. mit sieben Grammys ausgezeichnet.

Heroes enthält neben neuen Stücken auch einige neu interpretierte Klassiker, darunter Coverversionen von Songs aus den Dreißiger- und Vierzigerjahren. Neben Willie Nelson selbst steuerten auch seine Söhne Lukas und Micah neue Kompositionen bei, als Gastmusiker sind u.a. Merle Haggard, Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson und Sheryl Crow zu hören.

Produziert wurde das Album von Buddy Cannon, die Aufnahmen fanden hauptsächlich unter der Obhut von Steve Chadie im Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin, Texas, statt. Lediglich Hero , Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die und Come On Back Jesus wurden von Butch Carr in den Cannon Productions and Sound Emporium Recording Studios in Nashville aufgenommen. Neben Willie Nelson und seiner Gitarre Trigger wirkte an Heroes auch die Roll Me Up-Band mit, die aus Kevin Swine Grantt (Bass), Bobby Terry (Akustik und E-Gitarre), Jim Moose Brown (Piano, Wurlitzer, Hammondorgel), Mike Johnson (Steelguitar), Tony Creasman (Drums), Mickey Raphael (Mundharmonika) und Lukas Nelson (E-Gitarre) besteht. Darüber hinaus waren an den Aufnahmen auch Paul Shaffer (Hammondorgel), Butch Carr (Synthesizer), Steve Brewster (Drums) and Produzent Buddy Cannon (Bass, Akustikgitarre) beteiligt. Melonie Cannon, Buddy Cannon, Lance Miller und Kris Kristofferson sangen die Backgroundvocals.

Heroes beginnt mit einer Neuinterpretation des Wayne Carson-Songs A Horse Called Music (Titelsong des Willie Nelson-Albums aus dem Jahr 1989). Es folgt mit Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die einer der neuen Willie Nelson-Songs, der in Zusammenarbeit mit Buddy Cannon, Rich Alves, John Colgin und Mike McQuerry geschrieben wurde und an dessen Aufnahme die Special Guests Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson and Jamey Johnson mitwirkten. Die weiteren Neukompositionen sind Hero , auf dem Jamey Johnson und Billy Joe Shaver zu hören sind und Come On Back Jesus', an dem Buddy Cannon und Micah Nelson mitschrieben und das Lukas und Micah Nelson featured.

Mit That's All There Is To This Song enthält das Album auch einen neuen Song von Produzent Buddy Cannon, sowie drei Stücke aus der Feder von Lukas Nelson, No Place To Fly , Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her und The Sound of Your Memory (Co-Writer: Elizabeth Rainey). Lukas ist auf einer ganzen Reihe von Tracks zu hören, u.a. auf der Coverversion der Tom Waits/ Kathleen Brennan-Komposition Come On Up To The House , die zusammen mit Sheryl Crow eingespielt wurde.

Willie Nelson, guitar, vocals
Lukas Nelson, vocals, guitar, electric guitar
Micah Nelson, vocals
Billy Joe Shaver, vocals
Ray Price, vocals
Snoop Dogg, vocals
Kris Kristofferson, vocals
Merle Haggard, vocals
Jamey Johnson, vocals
Sheryl Crow, vocals
Buddy Cannon, bass, acoustic guitar, background vocals on 'Heroes'
Melonie Cannon, background vocals on 'Heroes'
Mickey Raphael, harmonica
Butch Carr, synthesizer
Steve Brewster, drums
Jim Brown, piano, Wurlitzer, B-3 organ
Tony Creasman, drums
Kevin Grantt, bass
Mike Johnson, steel guitar
Lance Miller, background vocals on 'Heroes'
Paul Shaffer, B-3 organ
Bobby Terry, electric guitar, acoustic guitar

Recorded at Big Gassed Studios, Blackbird Studios, Brewbeat Studio, Nashville, TN, Cannon Productions, DSR, Hollywood, CA
Engineered and mixed by Butch Carr, Justin Stanley, Jeremy Brown, T.W. Cargile, John 'Ace' Otten
Mastering by Andrew Mendelson
Produced by Buddy Cannon


Willie Nelson
With a six-decade career and a catalog of more than 200 albums to his credit, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelsonhas earned a permanent position in pop music’s pantheon with songs combining the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. He brought pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s with unforgettable songs like “Crazy” (Patsy Cline), “Hello Walls” (Faron Young), “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker), “Night Life” (Ray Price) and others and, by the mid-1970s, had become a superstar in his own right as a prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger, Willie’s first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist to the front ranks of popularity, making his a name familiar in country and city households across America and around-the-world.

A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert in 1985 to raise money for American family farmers. He continues to lobby against horse slaughter and produces his own blend of biodiesel fuel. An old-school road-dog troubadour with new school wheels, Willie plays concerts year-round, tirelessly touring on Honeysuckle Rose III (he rode his first two buses into the ground), taking his music and fans to places that are always worth the ride.

The very first musician to perform on the premiere episode of Austin City Limits in 1974, Willie Nelson was inducted into the inaugural class of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame by fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey on Saturday, April 26, 2014. “There would be no Austin City Limits without Willie Nelson,” McConaughey told the audience assembled at the University of Texas at Austin, the original home of what is now America’s longest-running televised music program.

Willie Nelson, who turned 81 on April 29/April 30, is an American original, a sublime singer, master tunesmith and outlaw country’s most enduring archetype.

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