Rainbow Connection (album)
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Rainbow Connection is a 2001 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...

 nominated for the 2001 Country Album of the Year Grammy Award
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. It was recorded in December 2000 and January 2001 at Willie's ranch near Spicewood, TX.

Track listing

  1. "Rainbow Connection
    The Rainbow Connection
    "Rainbow Connection" is a popular song written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher and originally performed by the character of Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie in 1979...

    " (Williams
    Paul Williams (songwriter)
    Paul Hamilton Williams, Jr. is an Academy Award-winning American composer, musician, songwriter, and actor. He is perhaps best known for popular songs performed by a number of acts in the 1970s including Three Dog Night's "An Old Fashioned Love Song", Helen Reddy's "You and Me Against the World",...

    , Ascher
    Kenneth Ascher
    Kenneth "Kenny" Lee Ascher , is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres — in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. He is widely known for co-writing, with Paul Williams, The Rainbow Connection...

    ) – 4:29
  2. "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
    I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover
    "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" is a song from 1927, written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods. It was a hit for Art Mooney & His Orchestra in 1948 and was largely popularized by him. In modern times the song is perhaps most associated with Merrie Melodies cartoons, as it appeared in...

    " (Dixon
    Mort Dixon
    -Biography:Born in New York, Dixon began writing songs in the early 1920s, and was active into the 1930s. He achieved success with his first published effort, 1923's "That Old Gang of Mine". His chief composer collaborators were Ray Henderson, Harry Warren, Harry M...

    , Woods
    Harry M. Woods
    Henry MacGregor Woods was a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and pianist. Woods is sometimes credited as Harry Woods.-Early life:...

    ) – 2:30
  3. "Ol' Blue" – 2:36
  4. "Wise Old Me" – 4:14
  5. "Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon" (Rex Griffin
    Rex Griffin
    Alsie "Rex" Griffin was an American country musician and songwriter.-Early years:Griffin was born in Gadsden, Alabama as the second of seven children to Marion and Selma Griffin. He grew up on a farm and received little schooling, eventually finding work in the factory where his father worked as a...

    ) – 1:28
  6. "Playmate" – 1:37
  7. "I'm My Own Grandpa
    I'm My Own Grandpa
    "I'm My Own Grandpa" is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1947, about a man who, through an unlikely combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother — that is, tacitly dropping the "step-" modifiers, he becomes his own...

    " (Latham, Jaffe
    Moe Jaffe
    Moe Jaffe was a songwriter and bandleader who composed more than 250 songs. He is best known for six: "Collegiate" , “The Gypsy in My Soul", “If I Had My Life to Live Over", “If You Are But a Dream", “Bell Bottom Trousers”, and “I'm My Own Grandpa".-First success:Jaffe was born into a...

    ) – 3:19
  8. "Rock Me to Sleep" – 3:16
  9. "Playin' Dominoes and Shootin' Dice" (Wood, Dobbs) – 2:46
  10. "Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way" – 1:55
  11. "Outskirts of Town" – 7:20
  12. "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
    Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
    "Just Dropped In " is a song written by Mickey Newbury. Said to reflect the LSD experience, the song was intended to be a warning against the danger of using LSD. First recorded in 1967 by Jerry Lee Lewis, who rejected it, it was a hit for The First Edition in 1968...

    " – 3:42
  13. "The Thirty-Third of August" – 4:33

Personnel

  • 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...

     – Guitar, vocals
  • Matt Hubbard
    Matt Hubbard (musician)
    Matthew Hubbard is an American musician best known for his work with Willie Nelson and with the band 7 Walkers.-Career:Matt Hubbard began his career by studying electronic music at Oberlin Conservatory. He began working with Willie Nelson in 1998 and has been running Nelson's home studio in Luck,...

    – Harmonica, electric bass, bongos, keyboards, electric piano
  • Amy Nelson – Vocals, background vocals, vocal harmony
  • Lana Nelson – Vocals
  • Paula Nelson – Vocals
  • Gabe Rhodes – Guitar
  • David Zettner – Pedal steel, electric bass, guitar

Chart performance

Chart (2001) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 52
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