The Essential Willie Nelson
Compilation by Willie Nelson
Tracklist
- CD 1
- 1Night Life2:314.0 ★
- 2Hello Walls2:24
- 3Crazy2:52
- 4Funny How Time Slips Away3:024.2 ★
- 5I Never Cared For You2:32
- 6The Party's Over2:29
- 7Good Times2:28
- 8Me and Paul3:49
- 9Shotgun Willie2:39
- 10Bloody Mary Morning2:49
- 11Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain2:20
- 12Good Hearted Woman2:59
- 13If You've Got The Money I've Got the Time2:06
- 14Uncloudy Day4:41
- 15Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys2:32
- 16Georgia On My Mind4:21
- 17Blue Skies3:35
- 18All of Me3:55
- 19Whiskey River (live)3:31
- 20Stay a Little Longer (live)3:25
- CD 2
- 1Heartbreak Hotel (with Leon Russell)3:01
- 2Help Me Make It Through The Night4:00
- 3My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys3:05
- 4Faded Love (with Ray Price)3:51
- 5On The Road Again2:34
- 6Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground4:315.0 ★
- 7Always On My Mind3:324.6 ★
- 8Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning4:21
- 9Pancho and Lefty (with Merle Haggard)4:484.6 ★
- 10To All The Girls I've Loved Before (with Julio Iglesias)3:34
- 11City Of New Orleans4:52
- 12Seven Spanish Angels (with Ray Charles)3:52
- 13Forgiving You Was Easy2:49
- 14Highwayman (with Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash & Kris Christofferson)3:04
- 15Living In The Promiseland3:22
- 16Nothing I Can Do About It Now3:20
- 17Graceland4:46
- 18Everywhere I Go (with Emmylou Harris)3:52
- 19Mendocino County Line (with Lee Ann Womack4:33
- 20One Time Too Many (with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith)5:24
More by Willie Nelson
Release credits
- bass [6]
- piano [6]
- keyboard [7, 9]
- background vocals [9], keyboard [7, 9]
- engineer [6], mix [6]
- assistant [17]
- electric guitar [17]
- guitar [9], producer [7, 9]
- bass [1]
- saxophone [1]
- saxophone [9]
- producer [17]
- drums (drum set) [7, 9, 17]
- guitar [9]
- steel guitar [1]
- sampler [17]
- guitar [6]
- producer [4]
- electric guitar [17]
- background vocals [9], guitar [7, 9]
- fiddle [9], guitar [6], mandolin [9]
- guitar [9]
- fiddle [17]
- background vocals [9], guitar [9], producer [9], vocal [9]
- EWI [17]
- assistant [17]
- harmonica [6-7, 9, 17]
- bass [7, 9], bass guitar [17]
- congas [17]
- guitar [1]
- drums (drum set) [6], percussion [6]
- pedal steel guitar [17]
- acoustic guitar [17], co [17]
- guitar [7, 9]
- drums (drum set) [6]
- recording [17]
- co [17], mix [17]
- acoustic guitar [17], background vocals [9], guitar [1.1, 2.6-7, 2.9], producer [6, 9], vocal [2.6-7, 2.9, 2.17, 1.1]
Issues
- T
T1 April 2003
T1 April 2003
T2003- T2003
- T2003
- T3x CD (Limited Edition)2009
T2x Digital Media16 October 2015
T2x CD2015






