Red Headed Stranger

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Red Headed Stranger
Red Headed Stranger cover
Studio album by Willie Nelson
Released 1975
Recorded  ???
Genre Country
Length 33:30
Label Columbia
Producer(s) Willie Nelson
Professional reviews
Willie Nelson chronology
Phases and Stages
(1974)		 Red Headed Stranger
(1975)		 The Sound in Your Mind
(1976)


Red Headed Stranger is a 1975 (see 1975 in music) album by American outlaw country singer Willie Nelson. A concept album, Red Headed Stranger is about a fugitive preacher, on the run from the law after killing his wife. Sparse and jumbled, with brief, poetic lyrics, no one involved in the creation of the album thought it would sell well. In spite of its inaccessibility, Red Headed Stranger was a blockbuster among both country music and mainstream audiences, going multiplatinum and making Nelson one of the biggest stars in country. In 2003, the same year the album was ranked #184 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time [1], Nelson sang background vocals and added some guitar to a remake of the album done by Carla Bozulich of the alt-country band, the Geraldine Fibbers.

The first track, "Time of the Preacher", was memorably used in the 1985 television drama Edge of Darkness.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Time of the Preacher" (Willie Nelson) – 2:26
  2. "I Couldn't Believe It Was True" (Eddy Arnold, Wally Fowler) – 1:32
  3. "Time of the Preacher Theme" (Nelson) – 1:13
  4. "Medley: Blue Rock Montana/Red Headed Stranger" (Nelson, Carl Stutz, Edith Lindeman) – 1:36
  5. "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose) – 2:21
  6. "Red Headed Stranger" (Stutz, Lindeman) – 4:00
  7. "Time of the Preacher Theme" (Nelson) – :53
  8. "Just as I Am" (Nelson) – :26
  9. "Denver" (Nelson) – 1:47
  10. "O'er the Waves" (Nelson) – :47
  11. "Down Yonder" (L. Wolfe Gilbert) – 1:56
  12. "Can I Sleep in Your Arms" (Hank Cochran) – 5:24
  13. "Remember Me" (Scotty Wiseman) – 2:52
  14. "Hands on the Wheel" (Bill Callery) – 4:22
  15. "Bandera" (Nelson) – 2:19

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Chart positions

Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album

1975   Red Headed Stranger Country Albums                  No. 1
1975    Red Headed Stranger     Pop Albums                      No. 28

Billboard (North America) - singles

1975   Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain        Country Singles                 No. 1
1975    Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain    Pop Singles                     No. 21
1976    Remember Me                     Country Singles                 No. 2
1976    Remember Me                     Pop Singles                     No. 67
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