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Willie Nelson - The Essential Willie Nelson [Columbia]

Primary Artist
Willie Nelson
Album Title
The Essential Willie Nelson [Columbia]
Release Date
April 1, 2003 
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Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Willie Nelson recorded for many labels during the course of his lengthy career, but his greatest commercial success arrived during his time on Columbia during the late '70s and early '80s, which is one of the reasons that the career-spanning double-disc collection The Essential Willie Nelson appeared on Columbia/Legacy in 2003. The other reason, of course, is that during the first part of the 2000s, Legacy had been turning out cross-licensed, multi-label compilations of artists who hopped around from label to label or had unwieldy careers. Read More