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Oh What a Beautiful World
2025 studio album by Willie Nelson From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oh What a Beautiful World is the 77th solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. It was released on April 25, 2025, through Legacy Recordings.[1] Produced by Buddy Cannon, the album contains twelve songs by the songwriter Rodney Crowell, who performs harmony vocals on the lead single and title track.[2]
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Background
Nelson's first studio recording of a Crowell song came with "'Til I Gain Control Again" on the 1983 Waylon Jennings duet album Take It to the Limit,[3] although he had previously performed the song in concert as on the 1978 album Willie and Family Live. Over the next four decades, Nelson continued to record Crowell songs (prominently on 2024 album The Border) and he personally chose the twelve songs for this album.[4]
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Critical reception
No Depression praised the "radiant" album and Nelson's performances of Crowell's "emotionally resonant" songs."[7] Hot Press noted that "Crowell's canon mines classic Nelson territory", adding that the album is "a splendid record."[8]
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.[9]
- Willie Nelson – lead vocals, Trigger
- Wyatt Beard – background vocals
- Jim "Moose" Brown – organ, piano, Wurlitzer piano
- Buddy Cannon – production, background vocals
- Melonie Cannon – background vocals
- Tony Castle – mixing, engineering
- Rodney Crowell – lead vocals on "Oh What a Beautiful World"
- Fred Eltringham – drums, percussion
- Andrew Mendelson – mastering
- James Mitchell – electric guitar
- Mickey Raphael – harmonica
- Bobby Terry – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, additional engineering
- Michael Walter – engineering assistance
- Glenn Worf – bass guitar, double bass
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References
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