Disco de Willie Nelson: “Sound in Your Mind”

Even though another review here says it well, I just feel a need to add one myself because this album is too good to only have 2 reviews.

This was the first disc I ever heard of Willie Nelson back about 25 years ago, and it has to be one of his best. This is a bit more lively than Red Headed Stranger, an excellent and understated album made the year before this one, but the same instrumentation with a few more drums - a very few more. This is very mellow except for the Lefty Frizzell track "If You've Got The Money" and the "Night Life" portion of the final track. But this is an uplifting album. Willie does a fine job with all the songs, making them all sound like his own (4 songs are cover songs, but they're well chosen).

One of the highlights on here is the Medley (Funny How Time Slips Away/Crazy/NightLife) where he does 3 of his self-penned standards at once. Willie still plays this medley on a pretty regular basis in concert and the end has some nice guitar work.

Willie has recorded so many great albums that it is easy to forget how good some of them are. This one is mellow except for two songs. One of these is a revival of the old Lefty Frizzell classic, If you've got the money I've got the time. The other is Night life, the final segment of a medley of songs (the others being Funny how time slips away and Crazy) that Willie wrote in the early sixties and which helped establish his name as a songwriter.

The set opens with That lucky old sun, a song that provided Frankie Laine with an American number one hit in 1949. Amazing grace has been covered by countless singers but Willie's version is just what you expect - excellent. A penny for your thoughts (an original song) is very sad. The healing hands of time, a ballad about recovering from sadness, is a classic. Thanks again, I'd have to be crazy and the title track are all excellent.

Perhaps this is not Willie's best album but it has a little of everything - pop oldies, country oldies, re-recordings of his own oldies and original songs. It definitely belongs in the collection of any Willie Nelson fan.

Willie has recorded so many great albums that it is easy to forget how good some of them are. This one is mellow except for two songs. One of these is a revival of the old Lefty Frizzell classic, If you've got the money I've got the time. The other is Night life, the final segment of a medley of songs (the others being Funny how time slips away and Crazy) that Willie wrote in the early sixties and which helped establish his name as a songwriter.

The set opens with That lucky old sun, a song that provided Frankie Laine with an American number one hit in 1949. Amazing grace has been covered by countless singers but Willie's version is just what you expect - excellent. A penny for your thoughts (an original song) is very sad. The healing hands of time, a ballad about recovering from sadness, is a classic. Thanks again, I'd have to be crazy and the title track are all excellent.

Perhaps this is not Willie's best album but it has a little of everything - pop oldies, country oldies, re-recordings of his own oldies and original songs. It definitely belongs in the collection of any Willie Nelson fan.

I love this album! It's in regular rotation of albums i have from Willie Nelson...Yesterday's Wine, the Troublemaker, Always on my Mind, Shotgun Willie...this album focuses heavily on gospel, which Willie does very well...