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Original 1975 COLUMBIA RECORDS pressing of the WILLIE NELSON album, RED HEADED STRANGER (KC 33482)

Includes: custom lyric inner sleeve
AMG 5 STARS: 's  perhaps is the strangest blockbuster country produced, a concept album about a preacher on the run after murdering his departed wife and her new lover, told entirely with brief song-poems and utterly minimal backing. It's defiantly anticommercial and it demands intense concentration -- all reasons why nobody thought it would be a hit, a story related in 's liner notes to the 2000 reissue. It was a phenomenal blockbuster, though, selling millions of copies, establishing  as a superstar recording artist in its own right. For all its success, it still remains a prickly, difficult album, though, making the interspersed concept of  sound shiny in comparison. It's difficult because it's old-fashioned, sounding like a tale told around a cowboy campfire. Now, this all reads well on paper, and there's much to admire in 's intimate gamble, but it's really elusive, as the themes get a little muddled and the tunes themselves are a bit bare. It's undoubtedly distinctive -- and it sounds more distinctive with each passing year -- but it's strictly an intellectual triumph and, after a pair of albums that were musically and intellectually sound, it's a bit of a letdown, no matter how successful it was.
Condition: the sleeve- still in the original shrink wrap- grades EX.The record grades NM. Original inner sleeve included; the record ships in an anti-static, dust free, archival sleeve. Check out my feedback score; you won't be disappointed.