Oh What A Beautiful World by Willie Nelson

Oh What A Beautiful World

Willie Nelson

2025

Oh What A Beautiful World is a Folk album by Willie Nelson, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 5 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Folk
  • Singer-Songwriter
  • warm
  • nostalgic
  • pastoral

About

Just shy of his 92nd birthday, the legendary American songwriter shows no signs of stopping: <i>Oh What a Beautiful World</i> is Nelson’s 77th solo studio album. This one continues his hallowed tradition of interpreting the work of his own favorite songwriters—in this case, its 12 songs were either written or co-written by fellow Texan Rodney Crowell, who also appears to sing backup on the title track. Nelson has been recording Crowell’s songs for decades (including on 2024’s <i>The Border</i>), but here the tracks he’s selected are poignant in their focus on the mundane sweetness of life: quiet mornings, rainstorms, old clothes that fit just right. Bittersweet memories of simple childhood pleasures resurface on “Banks of the Old Bandera,” though the rope they used to swing on over the swimming hole has long since tattered and frayed. All the more moving, then, when Nelson sings on “The Fly Boy & the Kid,” “May you always stay in touch with the things that keep you young/When you’re staring at injustice, may you never bite your tongue.”

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Tracklist

  1. 1What Kind Of Love3:42
  2. 2Banks Of The Old Bandera3:26
  3. 3The Fly Boy & The Kid3:51
  4. 4Forty Miles From Nowhere4:28
  5. 5I Wouldn't Be Me Without You3:55
  6. 6Making Memories Of Us4:11
  7. 7Oh What A Beautiful World4:00
  8. 8Open Season On My Heart3:52
  9. 9Shame On The Moon4:27
  10. 10She's Back In Town3:20
  11. 11Still Learning How To Fly3:59
  12. 12Stuff That Works4:01

Credits

Performers

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 5 pressings tracked on Gatefold