Album
Tougher Than Leather
1983 · Folk, World, & Country
9 collectors on Gatefold own this
Tougher Than Leather is a Folk album by Willie Nelson, originally released in 1983. On Gatefold: 27 pressings tracked, owned by 9 collectors.
About
Willie Nelson celebrated the opening of his new recording facility — Pedernales Recording Studio, in Spicewood, Texas — with his first album of all-new material since 1975’s <i>Red Headed Stranger</i>. Like <i>Stranger</i>, <i>Tougher Than Leather</i> is a concept album about the Old West, centered around the story of a gunfighter who falls for the wife of a man he shot down. The doomed couple is later reincarnated and reunited, only to be separated again, by what Willie might call “a little old-fashioned karma.” Inspired by Nelson’s own aging process and the brush with death he had in 1981 (after his lung collapsed while swimming in Hawaii), <i>Tougher Than Leather</i> displays a focus and vitality that Nelson had not shown for awhile. The playing and singing is full-bodied, and so is the production. There are a lot of aging country singers who can pull off a great tune or a deep performance, but only Willie could make an album like <i>Tougher Than Leather</i>, which cycles through tones and scenes like a autumn wind around the corners an old town.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1My Love For The Rose0:35
- A2Changing Skies3:02
- A3Tougher Than Leather4:51
- A4Little Old Fashioned Karma3:16
- A5Somewhere In Texas (Part I)0:51
- A6Beer Barrel Polka2:41
Side B
- B1Summer Of Roses3:10
- B2Somewhere In Texas (Part II)0:54
- B3My Love For The Rose0:27
- B4The Convict And The Rose3:50
- B5Changing Skies0:52
- B6I Am The Forest4:14
- B7Nobody Slides, My Friend1:36
Sound DNA
- Folk
- Traditional Folk
- sparse
- brooding
- outlaw
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bee SpearsBASS
- Bobbie NelsonPIANO
- Grady MartinGUITAR
- Jody PayneGUITAR
- Johnny GimbleFIDDLE, MANDOLIN
- Mickey RaphaelHARMONICA
- Paul EnglishDESIGN , DRUMS DRUMS
- Willie NelsonVOCALS, GUITAR
9 collectors on Gatefold own this · 27 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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