WTF: Willie Nelson w/ Kid Rock

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...and not just Kid Rock. Also Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow. And half the songs are co-written by Bernie Taupin, for gosh sake. Now I have a love-hate relationship with Willie, but I've had the utmost respect for him over the last number of years, especially after turning out albums as truly fine as Spirit and Teatro. But this looked like such a potential steaming turd of a concept (Willie Nelson! Written by the guy that brought you ELTON! JOHN! Plus a duet about the open prairie with one of the hottest new punk-ass nasty artists to lure in the kids!) that I just had to get it to see how mind-numbingly vile it is. And I really don't know yet. I can't decide. Anyone else have any opinions on this? Travesty? Genius? Does anyone even care?

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New whoops, I forgot, the album is called The Great Divide, and it's out on Lost Highway and HEY WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WILLIE'S REGGAE ALBUM ANYHOW answers.

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

how cool does this sound? fuck...all they need is ryan adams...

kid rock and wilie though - it's like two gens of trailer trash colliding in the pot-fogged night.

― goeff, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

still hasnt paid his tax bill then. still gotta be better than these taco bell ads.

― XStatic Peace, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Betcha it's pretty good. I was never a big fan, but bought both Teatro and Spirit, and both are great. All-star duet albums really aren't my thing, but he could have worse people to collaborate with.

― Sean, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, the verdict is in, and a good chunk of the album is not bad. The track with Kid Rock is actually one of the better ones too. A few of the tracks that are Willie by himself are the ugly ones, with really soppy rock production. So, it's not Teatro by any means, but it's also not the disaster it looks like on paper.

― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven months pass...

Oh god, this is the worst album by the best dude, sorta like the longest bridge over the smallest body of water.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The live album released after 'great divide' does have Ryan Adams! Covering 'the harder they come,' no less!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

make it stop! Willie, chew off your arm!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

So, whatever DID happen to Willie's reggae album?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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