Willie NelsonBest Willie Nelson Albums Ranked

Red Headed Stranger

pitchfork

9.3

“In 1975, Willie Nelson changed the rules of country music. His lonesome, noir concept album about a wayward preacher was a big and beautiful dream made real by simple and spare music.”

Stardust

pitchfork

9.3

“It's difficult to fathom today, but Stardust-- a collection of standards-- was a risky left turn for an artist of Willie Nelson's power and magnitude. Now the record is reissued with a set of other Nelson covers from throughout his career.”

One Hell Of A Ride

pitchfork

8.6

“Taking in the full half-century breadth of the country legend's career, this 4xCD, 100-track set reminds us why you just don't say no to the red-headed stranger.”

Last Man Standing

pastemagazine

8.4

“How do you stare down the fact that your days are numbered? That’s the question hovering over the latest album from country legend Willie Nelson. The soon-to-be 85-year-old has watched all the artists that inspired him and nearly all those who were part of his outlaw posse make their final transitions. Sad, yes, but a dull inevitability. Rather than lament his fate, Nelson is facing it with the sa”

Live At Budokan

pitchfork

8.0

“Recorded in 1984, this live set offers a glimpse behind the fog of pot smoke and blur of whiskey when one of country music’s greatest-ever bands was performing at its peak.”

One Hell Of A Ride

rollingstone

8.0

“This anthology proves Willie Nelson was as much a country-music renegade when he wrotePatsy Cline’s 1961 hit "Crazy" as he was in the Seventies when he grewout his hair, flipped Nashville the bird and cut Red Headed Stranger.His early-Sixties weepers, like "Hello Walls" and "Mr. Record Man," werecharacterized by an existential loneliness that followed the […]”