I don't know a thing about love : [the songs of Harlan Howard] / Willie Nelson.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 19658800362 | LegacyPublisher: [New York] : Legacy, [2023]Description: 1 audio disc (32 min., 11 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- I do not know a thing about love
- Produced by Buddy Cannon.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | CD | COUNTRY Nelson, Willie | Available | 33111009989290 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Willie Nelson returns to his comfort zone on I Don't Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard, an old-fashioned country album released a few weeks before his 90th birthday. Nelson isn't the first country singer to salute songwriter Howard. Buck Owens did it in 1961 with Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard, while Waylon Jennings released Waylon Sings Ol' Harlan in 1967. As it happens, I Don't Know a Thing About Love opens with "I've Got a Tiger by the Tail" and "The Chokin' Kind," songs associated with Buck and Waylon that have generated a number of covers over the years. Many of the songs here are also quite recognizable due to regular covers: "Streets of Baltimore," "Life Turned Her That Way," "Too Many Rivers," and "Busted" all qualify as 20th century standards. There are no surprises in the arrangements -- "Tiger by the Tail" isn't taken as quickly as Buck Owens & the Buckaroos' version, "Busted" doesn't hit as hard as the Ray Charles classic, yet Nelson's versions still follow those blueprints -- so the focus is squarely on an ace band, which means I Don't Know a Thing About Love never sounds rote. Instead, it sounds like a latter-day Willie Nelson album: easy and relaxed, familiar and fresh, the pleasures lying as much in the comfortable gait of Nelson's band as in his idiosyncratic delivery. Happily, Nelson sounds sprier here than he has on other records of contemporaneous vintage, which gives a light, lively quality that's quite welcome. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Title from disc label.
Songs written by Harlan Howard.
Tiger by the tail -- The chokin' kind -- Excuse me (I think I've got a heartache) -- Life turned her that way -- I don't know a thing about love -- Streets of Baltimore -- Busted -- She called me baby -- Too many rivers -- Beautiful Annabel Lee.
Produced by Buddy Cannon.
Willie Nelson, trigger, lead vocals ; with accompanying musicians.
Amongst the nearly 150 albums that Willie Nelson has released, he has several amazing full-album tributes to songwriters from Kris Kristofferson and George Gershwin to Ray Price and Cindy Walker. Adding to that list is a new studio album dedicated to songwriting legend Harlen Howard who has scores of country hits including a number that crossed over to pop and even R&B charts. A member of both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, Howard wrote hits for Ray Charles ("Busted"), Buck Owens ("I've Got a Tiger by The Tail"), Conway Twitty (the title track), Bobby Bare ("The Streets of Baltimore") and so many more. Produced by longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon and featuring a murderers' row of crack Nashville musicians, / Don't Know a Thing About Love is an amazing addition to Willie's unparalleled catalog.