To All the Girls...

To All the Girls...

by Willie Nelson
To All the Girls...

To All the Girls...

by Willie Nelson

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Overview

Arriving a few short months after the standards collection Let's Face the Music and Dance, which itself came less than a year after his Legacy debut Heroes, To All the Girls splits the difference between these two albums for Legacy. As a duets album comprised entirely of female partners, To All the Girls is, like Heroes, driven by superstar guest power but the intimate, relaxed feel is reminiscent of Let's Face the Music and Dance. Such a quiet, comfortable setting is welcoming to a wide variety of partners, ranging from living legends Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, and Emmylou Harris to more recent superstars Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood. Between these two extremes lie such excellent, underappreciated, new alt-country singers like Brandi Carlile and the Secret Sisters, family -- both sister Paula Nelson and Melonie Cannon, the daughter of Buddy Cannon -- and stars who are working their way toward legend status (Norah Jones, Alison Krauss, Sheryl Crow, Wynnona Judd, Shelby Lynne). Similarly, the songs split the difference between new versions of Nelson classics ("Bloody Mary Morning," "Always on My Mind," "Please Don't' Tell Me How the Story Ends"), covers of beloved songs ("Til the End of the World," "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"), and brand-new tunes (Dolly brings in "From Here to the Moon and Back," which she wrote for Joyful Noise, a gospel musical co-starring Queen Latifah). Nearly all of this proceeds at an amiably lazy gait, which makes the handful of cuts that stray from this path quite notable: "Bloody Mary Morning" retains its trademark gallop with Wynnona; Brandi Carlile hits the honky tonk fairly hard on "Making Believe"; Shelby Lynne gives a hazy south-of-the-border feel to "The End of the World," and Krauss' "No Mas Amor" is dreamy. Although there is not a bad cut here -- this is all assured, easy, impeccably tasteful work from Willie and his partners -- the 70-minute length of To All the Girls does make the album feel a little samey, but that can be a good thing, as it makes for nice, romantic mood music or a drowsy Sunday afternoon at home. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date: 10/15/2013
Label: Legacy / Sony Legacy
UPC: 0887654258625
Rank: 8454

Tracks

  1. From Here to the Moon and Back
  2. She Was No Good for Me
  3. It Won't Be Very Long
  4. Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
  5. Far Away Places
  6. Bloody Mary Morning
  7. Always on My Mind
  8. Somewhere Between
  9. No Mas Amor
  10. Back to Earth
  11. Grandma's Hands
  12. Walkin'
  13. Till the End of the World
  14. Will You Remember Mine
  15. Dry Lightning
  16. Making Believe
  17. Have You Ever Seen the Rain
  18. After the Fire Is Gone

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Willie Nelson   Primary Artist
Anthony LaMarchina   Strings
Alison Krauss   Featured Artist
Bobby Wood   Synthesizer
John Wesley Ryles   Vocals (Background)
Wayne Benson   Mandolin
Carrie Underwood   Featured Artist
Norah Jones   Piano,Featured Artist
The Secret Sisters   Featured Artist
Fred Eltringham   Drums
Zeneba Bowers   Strings
Lukas Nelson   Vocals (Background)
Wei Tsun Chang   Strings
Stefan Petrescu   Strings
Tina Rose   Featured Artist
Lily Meola   Featured Artist
Bobby Cannon   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Kevin "Swine" Granit   Bass (Upright)
Lyndel Rhodes   Harmonica
Steve Herrmann   Trumpet
Dan Tyminski   Mandolin,Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Mary Kathryn Van Osdale   Strings
Mike Johnson   Guitar (Steel)
Seanad Chang   Strings
Shelby Lynne   Featured Artist
Paula Nelson   Featured Artist
Keith Gattis   Guitar (Electric),Gut String Guitar
Bobby Terry   Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric),Gut String Guitar
Bobby Woods   Synthesizer
Sheryl Crow   Featured Artist
Kristin Wilkinson   Strings
Dennis Crouch   Bass (Upright)
Mickey Raphael   Echo Harp,Harmonica,Bass Harmonica
Jim "Moose" Brown   Piano,Wurlitzer,Percussion
Tommy White   Guitar (Steel)
Pamela Sixfin   Strings
David Davidson   Strings
Emmylou Harris   Featured Artist
Dolly Parton   Featured Artist
John Hobbs   Piano
Chad Cromwell   Drums,Guitar (Electric)
Melonie Cannon   Featured Artist
Loretta Lynn   Featured Artist
Steve Gibson   Guitar (Electric)
Lonnie Wilson   Drums
Rosanne Cash   Featured Artist
Sarighani Reist   Strings
Brandi Carlile   Featured Artist
Mavis Staples   Featured Artist
Karen Winkelmann   Strings
Miranda Lambert   Featured Artist
Buddy Cannon   Guitar (Acoustic),Vocals (Background)
Kathryn Plummer   Strings
Wynonna Judd   Featured Artist
David Angel   Strings
Monisa Angell   Strings

Technical Credits

Butch Carr   Engineer,Mixing
Drew Bollman   Engineer
Andrew Mendelson   Mastering
T.W. Cargile   Engineer
Tony Castle   Engineer
Kris Kristofferson   Composer
Tim Hanseroth   Engineer
Chuck Turner   Engineer
Jacob Sciba   Engineer
Aidan Rowe   Copyist
Sammy Barrett   Composer
Frank Harkins   Design,Art Direction
Natthaphol Abhigantaphand   Assistant
Gordon Hammond   Engineer
Daniel Bacigalupi   Assistant
Shannon Finnegan   Production Coordination
Jon Zacks   Assistant Engineer
Sorrel Brigman   Assistant Engineer
Kam Luchterhand   Assistant Engineer
Joseph Holguin   Assistant Engineer
Mike Lancaster   Assistant Engineer
Adam Grover   Assistant
Sean R. Badum   Assistant Engineer
Donny Piper   Assistant Engineer
Wayne Carson   Composer
John Guess   Engineer
John Fogerty   Composer
Mike Stankiewicz   Assistant Engineer
Derek Parnell   Assistant Engineer
Andy Taub   Engineer
Keith Gattis   Composer
Bill Withers   Composer
Kristin Wilkinson   Contractor
L.E. White   Composer
Jimmy Work   Composer
Joan Whitney   Composer
Dolly Parton   Composer
John Hobbs   String Arrangements
John Leventhal   Engineer
Waylon Jennings   Composer
John L. Christopher Jr.   Composer
Mark James   Composer
Vaughn Horton   Composer
Danny Clinch   Photography
Merle Haggard   Composer
Bruce Springsteen   Composer
Buddy Cannon   Composer,Producer
Willie Nelson   Composer
Alex Kramer   Composer
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