Two Men with the Blues

Two Men with the Blues
Live album by Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis
Released July 8, 2008
Recorded January 12 – 13, 2007
Genre Vocal jazz/blues
Jazz standards
Jazz blues
Label Blue Note Records
Willie Nelson chronology
Moment of Forever
(2008)		 Two Men With The Blues
(2008)		 Willie and the Wheel
(2009)
Wynton Marsalis chronology
From the Plantation to the Penitentiary
(2007)		 Two Men With The Blues
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
St. Joe News-Press [2]

Two Men with the Blues is a live album by multiple Grammy Award winners Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis.[3] This album was released on July 8, 2008 on the Blue Note label. This album sold 22,000 copies in it first week of release.[4] It was recorded on January 12–13, 2007, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Track listing

  1. "Bright Lights, Big City" – 5:20
  2. "Night Life" – 5:44
  3. "Caldonia" – 3:25
  4. "Stardust" – 5:08
  5. "Basin Street Blues" – 4:56
  6. "Georgia On My Mind" – 4:40
  7. "Rainy Day Blues" – 5:43
  8. "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" (Williams) – 4:56
  9. "Ain't Nobody's Business" – 7:27
  10. "That's All" (Merle Travis) – 6:08
  11. "Down by The Riverside" – 8:12 (bonus track)

The band

Charts

The album held the number one position in the Billboard Jazz Albums chart for four weeks.[5][6][7][8] It spent a total of 67 weeks on that chart. It peaked at number 20 on both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Digital Albums charts, spending eight weeks and one week on the charts respectively.[9]

Chart Provider(s) Peak
position
Billboard 200 (U.S.)[10] Billboard 20
Billboard Top Jazz Albums (U.S.)[10] 1
German Albums Chart IFPI 63
New Zealand Albums Chart[11] RIANZ 13

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ St. Joe News-Press review
  3. ↑ Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men with the Blues, All About Jazz, April 30, 2008
  4. ↑ http://www.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20080716/496db0ee-7a7e-49c4-8248-e28a138af730/
  5. ↑ "Top Jazz Albums: Week of July 26, 2008". Billboard. 2008-07-26. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  6. ↑ "Top Jazz Albums: Week of August 2, 2008". Billboard. 2008-08-02. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  7. ↑ "Top Jazz Albums: Week of August 9, 2008". Billboard. 2008-08-09. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  8. ↑ "Top Jazz Albums: Week of August 16, 2008". Billboard. 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  9. ↑ "Two Men with the Blues - Willie...". Billboard. Retrieved 2011-05-17.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 U.S. Artist Chart History - Willie Nelson, Billboard
  11. ↑ WILLIE NELSON / WYNTON MARSALIS - TWO MEN WITH THE BLUES (ALBUM), charts.org.nz

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