Willie and the Wheel
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Willie and the Wheel is an album from American country music
artist
s Willie Nelson
and Asleep at the Wheel
. This album was released on February 3, 2009, on the Bismeaux Records label and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
.
Tracks 1, 5, 6, 8 & 9 are credited as traditional songs, arranged for this recording by Ray Benson.
Track 13 appears on the deluxe version of the album which also includes unique postcards for each track.
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...
artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
s 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...
and Asleep at the Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel
Asleep at the Wheel is a American country music group that was formed in Paw Paw, West Virginia, but based in Austin, Texas. Altogether, they have won nine Grammy Awards since their 1970 inception. In their career, they have released more than twenty studio albums, and have charted more than twenty...
. This album was released on February 3, 2009, on the Bismeaux Records label and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
Grammy Award for Best Americana Album
The Grammy Award for Best Americana Album is an honor presented to recording artists for quality albums in the Americana music genre at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards...
.
Track list
- "Hesitation BluesHesitation Blues"Hesitation Blues" is a popular song adapted from a traditional tune. One version was published by Billy Smythe, Scott Middleton, and Art Gillham. Another was published by W.C. Handy as "Hesitating Blues." Because the tune is a traditional tune many artists have given themselves credit as...
" - 2:47 - "Sweet Jennie Lee" (Walter DonaldsonWalter DonaldsonWalter Donaldson was a prolific United States popular songwriter, composing many hit songs of the 1910s and 1920s.-History:...
) - 3:01 - "Fan It" (Frankie Jaxson/Dan Howell) - 2:46
- "I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None o' This Jelly Roll" (Spencer WilliamsSpencer WilliamsSpencer Williams was an American jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. He is best known for his hit songs "Basin Street Blues", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "I've Found a New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Tishomingo Blues", "Careless Love", and many...
/Clarence Williams) - 3:11 - "Oh! You Pretty Woman" - 2:50
- "Bring it on Down to My House" - 3:29
- "Right or WrongRight or Wrong (song)"Right or Wrong" is a jazz ballad from 1921. Composed by Arthur Sizemore and Paul Biese, with words by Haven Gillespie, it is described by the original sheet music as "a beautiful fox-trot ballad."The lyrics tell of the loss of a paramour...
" (Arthur Sizemore/Haven GillespieHaven GillespieJames Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze", "Right or Wrong," "Beautiful Love",...
/Paul Biese) - 3:10 - "Corrine Corrina" - 3:17
- "I'm Sittin' on Top of the WorldI'm Sitting on Top of the World"I'm Sitting on Top of the World" is a popular song.The music was written by Ray Henderson, the lyrics by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young. The song was published in 1925.The song was first recorded by either Art Gillham or Al Jolson...
" - 4:45 - "Shame on YouShame On You (Cooley song)"Shame on You" is a Western Swing song written by Spade Cooley and became his signature song.The title comes from the refrain that starts each verse:In the song, the singer is rebuking his straying girlfriend....
" (Spade CooleySpade CooleyDonnell Clyde Cooley , better known as Spade Cooley, was an American Western swing musician, big band leader, actor, and television personality...
) - 2:59 - "SouthSouth (composition)"South" is a jazz composition by Thamon Hayes and Bennie Moten. It was introduced by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra in 1924 and recorded again in 1928, when it became a national hit...
" (Bennie MotenBennie MotenBennie Moten was a noted American jazz pianist and band leader born in Kansas City, Missouri.He led the Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the itinerant, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s, and helped to develop the riffing style that would come to define many of...
/Thamon Hayes) - 3:39- (with Paul ShafferPaul ShafferPaul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...
and Vince GillVince GillVincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
)
- (with Paul Shaffer
- "Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon" (Rex GriffinRex GriffinAlsie "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...
) - 3:39 - "I'll Have Somebody Else" (Bob WillsBob WillsJames 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...
) - 3:31
Tracks 1, 5, 6, 8 & 9 are credited as traditional songs, arranged for this recording by Ray Benson.
Track 13 appears on the deluxe version of the album which also includes unique postcards for each track.
Chart performance
| Chart (2009) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 13 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 90 |
| U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums | 6 |
Personnel
- Dave Alexander – Trumpet
- William Armstrong – Assistant Engineer
- Ray BensonRay BensonRay Benson is the front man of the Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel.In 1970, Benson, a Jewish native of Philadelphia, formed Asleep at the Wheel with friends Lucky Oceans and Leroy Preston. The group relocated to Austin in 1973 after a suggestion from Willie Nelson .Since then, the group has...
– Acoustic & Electric Guitar, Arranger, Vocals, Producer, Liner Notes, Art Direction, Mixing - Don Cobb – Mastering
- Eric Conn – Mastering
- Sarah Dodds – Design
- Shauna Dodds – Design
- Floyd DominoFloyd DominoFloyd Domino is an American musician known for his work in the genre of Western Swing.Born a native of California, Domino was introduced to Western Swing by way of the musicians who had migrated from Texas and Oklahoma in the 1930s and 1940s....
– Piano - Jonathan Doyle – Clarinet
- Mindy Espy Reyes – Product Manager
- Vince GillVince GillVincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
– Electric Guitar - Boo Macleod – Engineer
- Elizabeth McQueen – Vocals
- M.J. Mendell – Assistant Producer
- David Earl Miller – Bass
- Michael Mordecai – Trombone
- Willie NelsonWillie NelsonWillie 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...
– Vocals - Adam Odor – Engineer, Mixing
- Lisa Pollard – Photography
- Vance Powell – Engineer
- Dick Reeves – Art Direction, Design
- Eddie Rivers – Steel Guitar
- Jason Roberts – Fiddle, Mandolin, Vocals
- David Sanger – Drums
- Peter Schwarz – Associate Producer
- Sam Seifert – Acoustic Guitar, Engineer, Mixing
- Paul ShafferPaul ShafferPaul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian, and composer who has been David Letterman's sidekick since 1982.-Early years:...
– Piano - Dan Skarbek – Assistant Producer
- Kevin C. Smith – Bass
- Jerry WexlerJerry WexlerGerald "Jerry" Wexler was a music journalist turned music producer, and was regarded as one of the major record industry players behind music from the 1950s through the 1980s...
– Executive Producer - John Michael Whitby – Piano
- John "Sly" Wilson – Design