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Country Favorites-Willie Nelson Style is a 1966 album by country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

. He recorded it with Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...

's band, the Texas Troubadours and Western Swing fiddler-vocalist Wade Ray with studio musicians Jimmy Wilkerson and Hargus "Pig" Robbins. At the time of the recording, Nelson was a regular on a syndicated TV show hosted by Tubb.

In 1970, RCA issued an abridged version of this album as "Columbus Stockade Blues" (RCA Camden CAS-2444)

Track listing

  1. "Columbus Stockade Blues" – (Traditional) – 1:58
  2. "Seasons of My Heart" – (George Jones
    George Jones
    George Glenn Jones is an American country music singer known for his long list of hit records, his distinctive voice and phrasing, and his marriage to Tammy Wynette....

    , Darrell Edwards) – 2:44
  3. "I'd Trade All of My Tomorrows (For Just One Yesterday)" – (Jenny Lou Carson
    Jenny Lou Carson
    Jenny Lou Carson, , born Virginia Lucille Overstake, was an American country music singer-songwriter and the first woman to write a No. 1 country music hit...

    ) – 2:24
  4. "My Window Faces the South" (Mitchell Parish, Abner Silver) – 1:42
  5. "Go on Home" – (Hank Cochran
    Hank Cochran
    Garland Perry "Hank" Cochran was an American country music singer and songwriter. Starting during the 1960s, Cochran was a prolific songwriter in the genre, including major hits by Patsy Cline, Ray Price, Eddy Arnold and others...

    ) – 2:14
  6. "Fraulein" – (Lawton Williams) – 2:56
  7. "San Antonio Rose" – (Bob Wills
    Bob Wills
    James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...

    ) – 2:07
  8. "I Love You Because" (Leon Payne
    Leon Payne
    Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...

    ) – 2:58
  9. "Don't You Ever Get Tired (Of Hurting Me)" – (Hank Cochran) – 3:00
  10. "Home in San Antone" – (Fred Rose
    Fred Rose (musician)
    Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...

    ) – 1:40
  11. "Heartaches by the Number" – (Harlan Howard
    Harlan Howard
    Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...

    ) – 2:19
  12. "Making Believe
    Making Believe
    Making Believe is a country music song written by Jimmy Work and best known for its chart-topping version in 1955 by Kitty Wells. The song is consistently on lists of all-time greatest country music songs and has been covered by scores of artists over the past fifty years, including Bob Dylan,...

    " – (Jimmy Work
    Jimmy Work
    Jimmy Work was an American country musician best known for the country standard "Making Believe".Work was born in Ohio but moved to Dukedom, Tennessee with his family at age two...

    ) – 2:53

Personnel

  • Willie Nelson – Guitar, Vocals
  • Buddy Charlton – Pedal Steel
  • Jack Drake – Bass
  • Jack Greene – Drums
  • Wade Ray – Fiddle
  • Leon Rhodes – Guitar
  • Hargus Robbins – Piano
  • Cal Smith – Rhythm Guitar
  • James Wilkerson – Bass, Vibraphone
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