In a World of Willie

          I was listening to a lot of Willie Nelson last summer - in particular, discovering his more
obscure 70s stuff.   Additionally, I've  been digging Phosphorescent's dandy Willie tribute album To Willie for several years now.  Hence, a collection of Willie Nelson covers seemed apropos. In doing so, I found out, much to my surprise, that Willie Nelson didn't write Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (it's a Fred Rose tune, btw).  Still, it's such a "Willie song" (and the guy did write a ton of other great ones), I had to include Elliott Smith's version stay in the mix. Revoke my purist card, if you must (especially since Elliott screws up a verse in his live version), but it really fit nicely.

(Late update 12/4/14: Kevinpat, a friend of the blog, has graciously agreed to share a dandy 3rd compilation.  See below for track listing.)

Disc One

Reasons to Quit	Phosphorescent
You Look Like The Devil	Deadstring Brothers
On The Road Again	Pickin' On Series
I'm a Memory	Sara Watkins
The Most Unoriginal Sin	John Hiatt
She's Not For You	Mark Lanegan
Who Do I Know in Dallas	Merle Haggard
Make Way for a Better Man	Deke Dickerson
Three Days	k.d. lang
Are You Sure	Ray Price
Crazy	Mandy Barnett
Tragedy	Charlie Rich
Somebody Pick Up My Pieces	Bettye Lavette
Blue Eyes Cryin' In the Rain	Elliott Smith
Sad Songs And Waltzes	Cake

Disc Two

I Still Can't Believe You're Gone Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts Funny How Time Slips Away Al Green Permanently Lonely The Little Willies I'm Building Heartaches Thomas Marriott Undo The Wrong Justin Trevino Hello Walls Jason & The Scorchers A Good Hearted Woman George Jones Man With The Blues Del McCoury Sister's Coming Home Emmylou Harris One Day at a Time The Flatlanders It's Not Supposed To Be That Way Waylon Jennings Touch Me Buck Owens Hands on the Wheel The Geraldine Fibbers Opportunity To Cry Holmes Brothers Night Life [Live] Aretha Franklin Disc Three Valentine The Beautiful South Heartaches of a Fool Charlie A'Court A Moment Isn't Very Long Johnny Bush I Never Cared for You Deke Dickerson Still is Still Moving to Me Acapulco Radio Bloody Mary Morning Supersuckers Roll Me Up and Smoke Me Bitz 'n' Pieces Band Face of a Fighter Texas Tea Hands on the Wheel Norah Jones You Left Me a Long Time Ago Miss Leslie Don't Say Love (Or Nothing) Bobby Flores The End of Understanding Jim and Eve Selection I Gotta Get Drunk The Little Willies Kneel at the Feet of Jesus George Jones Family Bible Ricky Skaggs Healing Hands of Time Jessi Colter I Never Cared for You Paula Nelson Good Hearted Woman The Everly Brothers It's Not Supposed to be That Way Jackson Taylor and the Sinners Slow Down Old World Richard Buckner I Didn't Sleep a Wink Last Night Colin Cooper Project Yesterday's Wine George Jones w/Merle Haggard My Own Peculiar Way Joe Dolan Lonely Little Mansion Patti Jerome The Party's Over Phosphorescent