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Willie Nelson  Main Performer

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1 Time of the Preacher Nelson 2:26
2 I Couldn't Believe It Was True Arnold/Fowler 1:32
3 Time of the Preacher (Theme) Nelson 1:13
4 Medley: Blue Rock Montana/Red Headed Stranger Nelson/Stutz/Lindem 1:36
5 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Rose 2:21
6 Red Headed Stranger Lindeman/Stutz 4:00
7 Time of the Preacher (Theme) Nelson :53
8 Just as I Am Bradbury/Elliot :26
9 Denver Nelson 1:47
10 O'er the Waves Nelson :47
11 Down Yonder Gilbert 1:56
12 Can I Sleep in Your Arms? Cochran 5:24
13 Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming) Wiseman 2:52
14 Hands on the Wheel Callery 4:22
15 Bandera Nelson 2:19
16 Bach Minuet in G [#][*] Bach :40
17 Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) [#][*] Williams 3:32
18 A Maiden's Prayer [#][*] Wills 2:16
19 Bonaparte's Retreat [#][*] Stewart/King 2:26
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Red Headed Stranger

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Columbia/Legacy

Style: Traditional Country

Red Headed Stranger

UPC: 074646358924

Release Date: 07/04/2000

Original Release Date: 07/04/2000

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [Time of the Preacher, I Couldn't Believe It Was True, Time of the Preacher (Theme), Medley: Blue Rock Montana/Red Headed Stranger, Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain, Red Headed Stranger, Time of the Preacher (Theme), Just as I Am, Denver, O'er the Waves, Down Yonder, Can I Sleep in Your Arms?, Remember Me (When the Candlelights Are Gleaming), Hands on the Wheel, Bandera, Bach Minuet in G [#][*], Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) [#][*], A Maiden's Prayer [#][*], Bonaparte's Retreat [#][*]]
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger perhaps is the strangest blockbuster country produced, a concept album about a preacher on the run after murdering his departed wife and her new lover, told entirely with brief song-poems and utterly minimal backing. It's defiantly anticommercial and it demands intense concentration -- all reasons why nobody thought it would be a hit, a story related in Chet Flippo's liner notes to the 2000 reissue. It was a phenomenal blockbuster, though, selling millions of copies, establishing Nelson as a superstar recording artist in its own right. For all its success, it still remains a prickly, difficult album, though, making the interspersed concept of Phases and Stages sound shiny in comparison. It's difficult because it's old-fashioned, sounding like a tale told around a cowboy campfire. Now, this all reads well on paper, and there's much to admire in Nelson's intimate gamble, but it's really elusive, as the themes get a little muddled and the tunes themselves are a bit bare. It's undoubtedly distinctive -- and it sounds more distinctive with each passing year -- but it's strictly an intellectual triumph and, after a pair of albums that were musically and intellectually sound, it's a bit of a letdown, no matter how successful it was. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi