Willie Nelson
will release a new album of country covers,
Remember Me, Vol. 1,
on Nov. 21 on R&J Records. A second volume is expected next year. Nelson teamed with producer James Stroud for the project.
The track list stretches from the mid-1940s, including
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys'
"Roly Poly" and Tex Williams' "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette"), to 1989, with
Vern
Gosdin's "That Just About Does It." However, most of the material originates from the 1950s, including classics from
Tennessee Ernie Ford,
George Jones,
Webb
Pierce,
Ray Price,
Hank Snow,
Ernest
Tubb and
Porter Wagoner, along with Rosemary Clooney's 1954 pop hit, "This Old
House." Nelson also covers
Kris Kristofferson's "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (1970)
and
Merle Haggard's "Today I Started Loving You Again" (1970) and "Ramblin' Fever" (1977).
