25.08.2008.

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WILLIE NELSON
- Teatro (1998)

01. Ou Es-Tu, Mon Amour? (Where Are You, My Love)
02. I Never Cared For You
03. Everywhere I Go
04. Darkness On The Face Of The Earth
05. My Own Peculiar Way
06. These Lonely Nights
07. Home Motel
08. The Maker
09. I Just Can't Let You Say Good-Bye
10. I've Just Destroyed The World
11. Somebody Pick Up My Pieces
12. Three Days
13. I've Loved You All Over The World
14. Annie

After working his atmospheric magic on Bob Dylan (TIME OUT OF MIND) and Emmylou Harris (WRECKING BALL), producer Daniel Lanois takes on another American original: Willie Nelson. The result is an album that's at once timeless and up-to-the minute. Lanois brings Willie's instantly recognizable voice front and center, but underscores his acoustic guitar picking with complex percussion and drums, as well as organ and harmonica. The Lanois-written "The Maker" is the most fleshed-out instrumentally, and sounds like an outtake from Harris' WRECKING BALL. Harris herself appears on 11 of the 14 songs, handling the difficult task of singing harmony with Willie's distinctive around-the-beat style phrasing. Half the songs were written by Willie in the sixties, when his career was on the rise but his personal life was in ruins. The material is almost uniformly despairing, with titles like "I've Just Destroyed The World" and "Darkness on the Face of the Earth." The newer songs, like "Everywhere I Go," have a Spanish lilt, perhaps reflecting the fact that the album was recorded in a converted California theater that once specialized in Mexican movies. While TEATRO may be case of teaching an old dog new tricks, Willie's certainly an apt pupil. "Teatro" was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. - CDuniverse *