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Willie Nelson's Biography
Willie and the Wheel is a CD whose time has come. It was somewhere around 30 years ago that legendary music man, the late Jerry Wexler, got the idea to record Willie Nelson doing classic Western Swing songs on an album. Willie had been on Jerry’s label, Atlantic, and it was not a hard stretch to see why Jerry wanted to do this. Although Jerry was known as “Mr. R&B,” he was a closet fan of the great Western Swing bands like Bob Wills, Milton Brown, Cliff Bruner etc., and Willie had grown up on Western Swing which figured heavily into his approach to music, but before the record could be made, Willie left Atlantic for CBS records and so the idea was put to rest.
Fast forward to 2003. Jerry is retired and living in Florida and I get a call from him! "Ray" he says! "I am getting rid of my LP’s! They collect dust and it bothers me. I have recorded them all and I am sending you all my Western Swing albums!" I told Jerry thank you very much and how much I appreciated him thinking of me. Well, a few weeks later a box arrived with 20 or so LP's of Western Swing music from Jerry. They were collections of the music originally on 78rpm records reissued on 33 1/3 rpm LP's and although I had a few of them, they were a welcome addition to my collection of Western Swing material. I noticed that a number of the song titles had 2 initials written in next to them. “WN!” I didn't think much about it but when I talked to Jerry to thank him I asked what they were. He explained they stood for Willie Nelson! He had put the initials next to songs he had selected to record with Willie on the aforementioned Western Swing album that had never been done.