It's one of Willie’s career performances, but don’t allow it to overshadow the outstanding “Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning,” which is hidden at the end of the album. His wistfulness and regretful, heartfelt delivery complemented the song’s dramatic arrangement, and it spent 21 weeks on the charts. Nonetheless, Nelson repossessed it and made the song completely his. “Always On My Mind” had been a smash just three years earlier for John Wesley Ryles, and before that, for Elvis Presley in 1972. Witness Nelson’s unique approach to the show-stopping R&B ballads “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and “A Whiter Shade of Pale.” While these songs typically require a male singer to belt it out, Willie uses a voice that is both sly and restrained - a perfect example of the softer blow making a greater impact. A relatively short album, clocking in at a second shy of 33 minutes, but the themes of love and longing that are present throughout the LP make it feel much. With understated, almost-invisible production by Chips Moman, the album focuses on pop and soul ballads from the post-rock ‘n’ roll era. He was coming off a historically fertile and critically acclaimed run, wherein he had left Nashville behind, moved to Austin, helped invent Outlaw Country and released several unequivocal masterpieces, including Shotgun Willie, Phases and Stages and. In 1982 Willie Nelson opened a new chapter in his career as a master interpreter with Always On My Mind. You were always on my mind You were always on my mind And maybe I didnt hold you All those lonely, lonely times And I guess I never told you Im so happy that youre mine Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind Tell me, tell me that your Sweet love hasnt died. In 1982, Willie Nelson was nearing fifty.

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