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Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger (1975)
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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.


foobar2000 1.4.3 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2021-05-26 12:20:32

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Analyzed: Willie Nelson / Red Headed Stranger
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR12 -1.12 dB -17.45 dB 2:26 01-Time Of The Preacher
DR11 -1.35 dB -16.15 dB 1:32 02-I Couldn't Believe It Was True
DR12 -0.70 dB -18.37 dB 1:13 03-Time Of The Preacher Theme
DR14 -4.21 dB -20.97 dB 1:36 04-Medley: Blue Rock Montana/Red Headed Stranger
DR11 -3.44 dB -17.83 dB 2:20 05-Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
DR13 -1.43 dB -17.70 dB 4:01 06-Red Headed Stranger
DR12 -4.85 dB -20.84 dB 0:27 07-Time Of The Preacher Theme
DR12 -3.26 dB -20.13 dB 1:48 08-Just As I Am
DR13 -2.83 dB -19.32 dB 0:55 09-Denver
DR12 -6.25 dB -21.59 dB 0:47 10-O'er The Waves
DR12 -2.59 dB -17.55 dB 1:56 11-Down Yonder
DR12 -1.98 dB -18.48 dB 5:23 12-Can I Sleep In Your Arms
DR13 -1.23 dB -15.94 dB 2:53 13-Remember Me (When The Candle Lights Are Gleaming)
DR12 -1.85 dB -17.77 dB 4:23 14-Hands On The Wheel
DR12 -3.48 dB -18.96 dB 2:19 15-Bandera

Number of tracks: 15
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 2464 kbps
Codec: FLAC