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).
