Nelson, Willie
Things To Remember
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed 2018 Limited Edition 2LP Red Vinyl Gatefold Collection. Includes Liner Notes By Grammy Award Winning Writer, Colin Escott. For The Series Of Sessions That Laid The Foundation For Willie Nelson’s Career And Thus Changed The Course Of Modern Country Music, These Recordings Have Been Treated Pretty Cavalierly Over The Years. But First, A Little History…Willie Nelson Was A Struggling Songwriter, Hungry For Work And Maybe Even Just Plain Hungry, When He Moved To Nashville In Late 1960 With His Wife And Kids And Met Hank Cochran, Who Was A Writer For Pamper Music. Pamper, Which Was Owned By Country Star Ray Price, Fiddle Player Hal Smith, And A Baker (!) From Pico Rivera, California Named Claude Caviness, Was The Hottest Publishing Company In Town, Thanks To Writers Like Cochran And Harlan Howard And Songs Like “Heartaches By The Number” And “I Fall To Pieces.” At First, Willie Wasn’t Going To Sign With Pamper Because Hal Smith Wouldn’t Give Willie The Draw He Needed, But Cochran Told Smith To Front Willie Fifty Bucks A Week From His Own Draw. So Willie, Determined To Reward Cochran’s Trust, Got To Work. “I Was Writing To Prove I Could Write,” He Said. “To Get The Money And Feel Like I Was Earning It.” He Would End Most Work Days With A New Song, And Then He And Cochran Would Call A Session With A-Team Musicians Who Didn’t Have Major Label Studio Work That Day. The Result: A Body Of Work That Just May Well Represent The Most Fertile Creative Period Ever To Issue From A Country Songwriter.