- Phases and Stages
Infobox Album |
Name = Phases and Stages
Type =Album
Artist =Willie Nelson
Released = 1974
Recorded =Muscle Shoals Sound Studios Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Genre = Country
Length = 30:19
Label = Atlantic
Producer =Jerry Wexler
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0sp1z81ajyv1 link]
*Robert Christgau (A-) [http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1679&name=Willie+Nelson link]
*"Rolling Stone " (Favorable) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/willienelson/albums/album/309807/review/5944131/phases__stages 14 Mar 1974] |
Last album = "Shotgun Willie "
(1973)
This album = "Phases and Stages"
(1974)
Next album = "Red Headed Stranger "
(1975)"Phases and Stages" is a 1974
album byWillie Nelson . It is a concept album illustrating the dissolution of a marriage, reportedly Nelson's own. The first side of the album tells the woman's side of the story; the second side tells the man's.LP track listing
All songs written by
Willie Nelson .ide one
#"Phases and Stages (Theme)/Washing the Dishes" – 1:42
#"Phases and Stages (Theme)/Walkin'" – 4:06
#"Pretend I Never Happened" – 2:59
#"Sister's Coming Home/Down at the Corner Beer Joint" – 3:46
#"(How Will I Know) I'm Falling in Love Again" – 3:25ide two
#"Bloody Mary Morning" – 2:48
#"Phases and Stages (Theme)/No Love Around" – 2:24
#"I Still Can't Believe You're Gone" – 4:15
#"It's Not Supposed to Be That Way" – 3:27
#"Heaven and Hell" – 1:52
#"Phases and Stages (Theme)/Pick Up the Tempo/Phases and Stages (Theme)" – 3:26Personnel
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Willie Nelson – acoustic guitar,vocals
*Fred Carter, Jr. – acoustic, 12-string, &electric guitars ,dobro
*Pete Carr – acoustic & electric guitars, dobro
*John Hughey –pedal steel guitar
*Johnny Gimble –fiddle ,mandolin
*Barry Beckett – keyboards
*David Hood – bass
*Rober Hawkins – drums
*Eric Weissberg –banjo on "Down at the Corner Beer Joint"
*Al Lester – fiddle on "Bloody Mary Morning"
*Jeannie Greene,Pete Carr ,George Soule – background vocals on "Pick Up the Tempo"
*Mike Lewis – stringarrangements on "I Still Can't Believe You're Gone" and "It's Not Supposed to Be that Way"
*Jerry Wexler - producer [http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060730/FEATURES/607300539]ee also
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Muscle Shoals, Alabama
*Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
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