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Tears of an Outlaw: Willie Nelson’s The Complete Atlantic Sessions (PopMatters)

July 14th 2006 in Country, Legends, Music Review, News

There’s a nice article at Popmatters chronicling the Atlantic recording sessions (Shotgun Willie and Stages and Phases) that established Willie Nelson as a legend in the outlaw country movement and led to a great three CD retrospective of the sessions.

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