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Stardust is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson

Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
, consisting entirely of pop standards. A reissue was made in 1999, with two previously unreleased tracks. In 2003, the album was ranked number 257 on Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
 magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003.Related news articles:* The list was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums....
.

  • "Stardust
    Stardust (song)

    "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with the lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish.Composition...
    " (Hoagy Carmichael
    Hoagy Carmichael

    Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
    , Mitchell Parish
    Mitchell Parish

    Mitchell Parish was an United States lyricist....
    ) – 3:53
  • "Georgia on My Mind
    Georgia on My Mind

    "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official List of U.S. state songs of the United States state of Georgia ....
    " (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell
    Stuart Gorrell

    Stuart Gorrell was an United States composer and lyricist, best known for writing the lyrics for the song Georgia on My Mind....
    ) – 4:20
  • "Blue Skies
    Blue Skies (song)

    "Blue Skies" is a popular music song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926....
    " (Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin

    Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
    ) – 3:34
  • "All of Me
    All of Me (song)

    "All Of Me" is a popular song and jazz standard written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931.First recorded by Belle Baker, it has become one of the most recorded songs of its era, with notable versions by Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Django...
    ", (Seymour Simons
    Seymour Simons

    Seymour Simons, was an American jazz musician and composer born in Detroit, Michigan. He co-wrote the hit song "All of Me " with Gerald Marks....
    , Gerald Marks
    Gerald Marks

    Gerald Marks , was an American composer most well known for the song "All of Me " which he co-wrote with Seymour Simons and has been recorded about 2,000 times....
    ) – 3:54
  • "Unchained Melody
    Unchained Melody

    "Unchained Melody" is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
    " (Hy Zaret
    Hy Zaret

    Hy Zaret was an American lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century....
    , Alex North
    Alex North

    Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
    ) – 3:50
  • "September Song" (Kurt Weill
    Kurt Weill

    Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
    , Maxwell Anderson
    Maxwell Anderson

    James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company....
    ) – 4:35
  • "On the Sunny Side of the Street
    On the Sunny Side of the Street

    "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a song with music composed by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, which was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue, starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence....
    " (Dorothy Fields
    Dorothy Fields

    Dorothy Fields was an United States libretto and lyrics.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway theatre musical theaters and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters....
    , Jimmy McHugh
    Jimmy McHugh

    James Francis McHugh was a United States composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs....
    ) – 2:36
  • "Moonlight in Vermont
    Moonlight in Vermont (song)

    "Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular music song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf and published in 1943 in music....
    " (John Blackburn
    John Blackburn (songwriter)

    John M. Blackburn was a lyricist, perhaps best remembered for writing the lyrics to "Moonlight in Vermont ".He was raised in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio....
    , Karl Suessdorf
    Karl Suessdorf

    Karl Suessdorf, born 28 April 1921 - died 1982, Riverside, California, was a composer best known for his collaboration with lyricist John Blackburn in composing the jazz standard "Moonlight in Vermont ", which was first recorded in 1943 by Billy Butterfield's Orchestra featuring Margaret Whiting....
    ) – 3:25
  • "Don't Get Around Much Anymore
    Don't Get Around Much Anymore

    "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell . The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental....
    " (Duke Ellington
    Duke Ellington

    Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
    , Bob Russell
    Bob Russell (songwriter)

    Sidney Keith Russell, known as Bob Russell was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey. Although he was primarily a lyrics who collaborated with composers, he was, on occasion, a composer who collaborated with lyricists....
    ) – 2:33
  • "Someone to Watch Over Me
    Someone to Watch over Me (song)

    "Someone to Watch Over Me" is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the musical Oh, Kay! , where it was introduced by Gertrude Lawrence....
    " (George Gershwin
    George Gershwin

    George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
    , Ira Gershwin
    Ira Gershwin

    Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
    ) – 4:03


    • Bonus tracks only found on the 1999 reissue:

    1. "Scarlet Ribbons" (J.






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      Stardust is a 1978 album by Willie Nelson
      Willie Nelson

      Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
      , consisting entirely of pop standards. A reissue was made in 1999, with two previously unreleased tracks. In 2003, the album was ranked number 257 on Rolling Stone
      Rolling Stone

      Rolling Stone is a United States-based magazine devoted to music, politics, and popular culture that is published every two weeks. Rolling Stone was founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and music critic Ralph J....
       magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time
      The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

      The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone magazine published in November 2003.Related news articles:* The list was based on the votes of 273 rock musicians, critics and industry figures, each of whom submitted a weighted list of 50 albums....
      .

      Track listing

      1. "Stardust
        Stardust (song)

        "Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with the lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish.Composition...
        " (Hoagy Carmichael
        Hoagy Carmichael

        Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael was an United States composer, pianist, singer, actor, and bandleader. He is best known for writing "Stardust " , and "Heart and Soul ", two of the most-recorded American songs of all time....
        , Mitchell Parish
        Mitchell Parish

        Mitchell Parish was an United States lyricist....
        ) – 3:53
      2. "Georgia on My Mind
        Georgia on My Mind

        "Georgia on My Mind" is a song written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell . It is the official List of U.S. state songs of the United States state of Georgia ....
        " (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell
        Stuart Gorrell

        Stuart Gorrell was an United States composer and lyricist, best known for writing the lyrics for the song Georgia on My Mind....
        ) – 4:20
      3. "Blue Skies
        Blue Skies (song)

        "Blue Skies" is a popular music song, written by Irving Berlin in 1926....
        " (Irving Berlin
        Irving Berlin

        Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
        ) – 3:34
      4. "All of Me
        All of Me (song)

        "All Of Me" is a popular song and jazz standard written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons in 1931.First recorded by Belle Baker, it has become one of the most recorded songs of its era, with notable versions by Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Django...
        ", (Seymour Simons
        Seymour Simons

        Seymour Simons, was an American jazz musician and composer born in Detroit, Michigan. He co-wrote the hit song "All of Me " with Gerald Marks....
        , Gerald Marks
        Gerald Marks

        Gerald Marks , was an American composer most well known for the song "All of Me " which he co-wrote with Seymour Simons and has been recorded about 2,000 times....
        ) – 3:54
      5. "Unchained Melody
        Unchained Melody

        "Unchained Melody" is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
        " (Hy Zaret
        Hy Zaret

        Hy Zaret was an American lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century....
        , Alex North
        Alex North

        Alex North was an United States composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernism scores written in Hollywood, ....
        ) – 3:50
      6. "September Song" (Kurt Weill
        Kurt Weill

        Kurt Julian Weill , was a Germany, and in his later years American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the theatre....
        , Maxwell Anderson
        Maxwell Anderson

        James Maxwell Anderson was an American playwright, author, poet, journalist and lyricist. He was a founding member of The Playwrights Company....
        ) – 4:35
      7. "On the Sunny Side of the Street
        On the Sunny Side of the Street

        "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a song with music composed by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, which was introduced in the Broadway musical Lew Leslie's International Revue, starring Harry Richman and Gertrude Lawrence....
        " (Dorothy Fields
        Dorothy Fields

        Dorothy Fields was an United States libretto and lyrics.She wrote over 400 songs for Broadway theatre musical theaters and films. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female songwriters....
        , Jimmy McHugh
        Jimmy McHugh

        James Francis McHugh was a United States composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs....
        ) – 2:36
      8. "Moonlight in Vermont
        Moonlight in Vermont (song)

        "Moonlight in Vermont" is a popular music song about the U.S. state of Vermont, written by John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf and published in 1943 in music....
        " (John Blackburn
        John Blackburn (songwriter)

        John M. Blackburn was a lyricist, perhaps best remembered for writing the lyrics to "Moonlight in Vermont ".He was raised in Shaker Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio....
        , Karl Suessdorf
        Karl Suessdorf

        Karl Suessdorf, born 28 April 1921 - died 1982, Riverside, California, was a composer best known for his collaboration with lyricist John Blackburn in composing the jazz standard "Moonlight in Vermont ", which was first recorded in 1943 by Billy Butterfield's Orchestra featuring Margaret Whiting....
        ) – 3:25
      9. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore
        Don't Get Around Much Anymore

        "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" is a jazz standard with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell . The tune was originally titled "Never No Lament" and was first recorded by Ellington in 1940 as a big band instrumental....
        " (Duke Ellington
        Duke Ellington

        Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader.Duke Ellington was recognized during his life as one of the most influential Jazz royalty, if not in all American music and he is of only four jazz musicians ever to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine ....
        , Bob Russell
        Bob Russell (songwriter)

        Sidney Keith Russell, known as Bob Russell was an American songwriter born in Passaic, New Jersey. Although he was primarily a lyrics who collaborated with composers, he was, on occasion, a composer who collaborated with lyricists....
        ) – 2:33
      10. "Someone to Watch Over Me
        Someone to Watch over Me (song)

        "Someone to Watch Over Me" is a song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin from the musical Oh, Kay! , where it was introduced by Gertrude Lawrence....
        " (George Gershwin
        George Gershwin

        George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin....
        , Ira Gershwin
        Ira Gershwin

        Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century....
        ) – 4:03


      Bonus tracks only found on the 1999 reissue:

      1. "Scarlet Ribbons" (J. Segal and Evelyn Danzig
        Evelyn Danzig

        Evelyn Danzig Levine was an USA songwriter best known for writing the music for the popular folk song, "Scarlet Ribbons ", which was recorded by Harry Belafonte, Jo Stafford, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Joan Baez, The Kingston Trio, Wayne Newton, Danny Thomas and Sin?ad O'Connor, among many others....
        ) – 4:30
      2. "I Can See Clearly Now
        I Can See Clearly Now

        "I Can See Clearly Now" is a song written and recorded by Johnny Nash. It was a single from the album of the same name and achieved success in the United States and the United Kingdom when it was released in 1972....
        " (Johnny Nash
        Johnny Nash

        Johnny Nash is an African-American popular music singer-songwriter, best known for his unexpected 1972 comeback chart-topper, "I Can See Clearly Now"....
        ) – 4:18


      Bonus tracks on the 2008 anniversary CD edition:

      1. "What a Wonderful World
        What a Wonderful World

        "What a Wonderful World" is a song by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released as a single in 1968, and was inducted in the List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients Q-Z in 1999....
        " (George David Weiss
        George David Weiss

        George David Weiss is an United States songwriter and President of the Songwriters Guild of America....
         and Bob Thiele
        Bob Thiele

        Bob Thiele was an United States record producer. His wife was the singer Teresa Brewer.He hosted a jazz radio show when he was 14. He also played clarinet and led a band in the New York area....
        )
      2. "Basin Street Blues
        Basin Street Blues

        "Basin Street Blues" is a song often performed by Dixieland jazz bands, written by Spencer Williams. The song was published in 1926 and made famous in a recording by Louis Armstrong in 1928....
        " (Spencer Williams
        Spencer Williams

        Spencer Williams was an United States jazz and popular music composer, pianist, and singer. His hit songs include "Basin Street Blues", "She'll Be Comin Around That Mountain", "I Ain't Got Nobody", "Royal Garden Blues", "Mahogany Hall Stomp", "I Found A New Baby", "Everybody Loves My Baby", "Squeeze Me", "Shimmy-Sha-Wobble", "Boodle Am Shake...
        )
      3. "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" (D. Dougherty, E. Reynolds and A. Neiburg)
      4. "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
        I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

        "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter" is a 1935 popular music song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Joe Young . It has been recorded many times, and has become a standard of the Great American Songbook....
        " (Fred E. Ahlert
        Fred E. Ahlert

        Fred E. Ahlert was an United States composer and songwriter. His songs have been recorded by numerous artists, including Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Fats Waller....
         and Joe Young)
      5. "The Gypsy" (Billy Reid
        Billy Reid

        Billy Reid was a United Kingdom orchestra leader and songwriter.When the vocalist Dorothy Squires,joined his band, he took it as an opportunity to write songs especially for her....
        )
      6. "Mona Lisa
        Mona Lisa (Nat King Cole song)

        "Mona Lisa" is an Academy Award for Best Original Song written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the Paramount Pictures film Captain Carey, U.S.A. ....
        " (Jay Livingston
        Jay Livingston

        Jay Livingston was a partner with Ray Evans in a composer and songwriter duo best known for songs composed for films. Livingston wrote the music and Evans the lyrics....
         and Ray Evans
        Ray Evans

        Raymond Bernard Evans was an United States songwriter. He was a partner in a composer and songwriting duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films....
        )
      7. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
        Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive

        "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a popular music song. The music was written by Harold Arlen, the lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song was published in 1944....
        " (Johnny Mercer
        Johnny Mercer

        John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
         and Harold Arlen
        Harold Arlen

        Harold Arlen was an United States Jewish composer of popular music.Having written over 400 songs, a number of which have become known the world over, Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook....
        )
      8. "Ole Buttermilk Sky" (Hoagy Carmichael and J. Brooks)
      9. "That Lucky Old Sun
        That Lucky Old Sun

        "That Lucky Old Sun" is a 1949 in music popular music song with music by Beasley Smith and words by Haven Gillespie. Like "Old Man River", its lyrics contrast the toil and intense hardship of the singer's life with the obliviousness of the natural world....
        " (Haven Gillespie
        Haven Gillespie

        James Lamont "Haven" Gillespie was a Tin Pan Alley composer and lyricist. He was the writer of the classic Christmas song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" as well as "You Go to My Head", "Honey", "By the Sycamore Tree", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Breezin' Along With The Breeze, "Beautiful Love", "Drifting and Dreaming", and "Louisiana Fairy Tale"...
         and Beasley Smith)
      10. "Little Things Mean a Lot
        Little Things Mean a Lot

        "Little Things Mean a Lot" is a popular music song songwriter by Edith Lindeman and Carl Stutz, published in 1953. Lindeman was the leisure editor of the Richmond Times-Despatch and Stutz a disc jockey from Richmond, Virginia, Virginia....
        " (E. Calisch and C. Stutz)
      11. "Cry
        Cry (Churchill Kohlman song)

        "Cry" is the title of a 1951 popular song written by Churchill Kohlman. The biggest hit version was recorded in New York City by Johnnie Ray and The Four Lads on October 16, 1951....
        " (Churchill Kohlman
        Churchill Kohlman

        Churchill Kohlman was the composer who wrote Johnnie Ray's 1951 hit, Cry .He was born in 1906 and he had the following siblings: Homer Kohlman ; and Alyse Kohlman Klaytor....
        )
      12. "You'll Never Know
        You'll Never Know

        "You'll Never Know" is a popular music song. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Mack Gordon, based on a poem written by a young Oklahoma war bride named Dorothy Fern Norris....
        " (Mack Gordon
        Mack Gordon

        Mack Gordon was an United States composer and lyricist of songs for musical theatre and musical film. He was nominated for the best original song Academy Awards nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"....
         and Harry Warren
        Harry Warren

        Harry Warren was an Italian-American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film and had more hit songs than any other composer of the 20th Century....
        )
      13. "Tenderly
        Tenderly

        "Tenderly" is a popular music song published in 1946 with music by Walter Lloyd Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. It became a jazz standard....
        " (Jack Lawrence
        Jack Lawrence

        Jack Lawrence is an American Academy Award-nominated songwriter who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970....
         and Walter Lloyd Gross)
      14. "Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
        Ted Koehler

        Ted Koehler was an United States lyricist, born in Washington, DC....
        )
      15. "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)
        One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

        "One for My Baby " is a popular song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the musical The Sky's the Limit and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire....
        " (Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen)
      16. "Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent and Matt Dennis
        Matt Dennis

        Matt Dennis was a singer, pianist, bandleader, arranger, and writer of music for popular music songs.He was born in Seattle, Washington. His mother was a violinist and his father a singer, and the family was in vaudeville, so he was early exposed to music....
        )


      The "bonus" tracks are taken from other Nelson albums and do not date from the original Stardust sessions.

      • Track 1, 8: from the album What a Wonderful World
      • Track 2, 7: from the album The Promiseland
      • Track 3, 4, 6: from the album Somewhere Over the Rainbow
      • Track 5, 16: from the album Angel Eyes
      • Track 9: from the album The Sound In Your Mind
      • Track 10: from the album Born For Trouble
      • Track 11: from the album City of New Orleans
      • Track 12: from the album Without a Song
      • Track 13-15: from the album One For the Road


      Personnel

      • Willie Nelson
        Willie Nelson

        Willie Hugh Nelson is an United States country music singer-songwriter author, poet and actor. He reached his greatest fame during the outlaw country movement of the 1970s, but remains Cultural icon, especially in American popular culture....
         – vocals
        Singing

        Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
        , guitar
        Guitar

        The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
      • Bobbie Nelson – piano
        Piano

        The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard instrument. Widely used in Western music for solo performance, ensemble use, chamber music, and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to musical composition and rehearsal....
      • Paul English
        Paul English

        Paul English is Willie Nelson's longtime drummer who started playing with him in Fort Worth in 1955. In the early days, one of his duties was to serve as a strong armed collection agent for overdue payments from club owners for the band....
         – drums
        Drum kit

        A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
      • Rex Ludwick – drums
      • Jody Payne
        Jody Payne

        Jody Payne is an United States country music musician and singer. He is probably best-known as a longtime guitarist in Willie Nelson's Musical ensemble....
         – guitar
      • Bee Spears – bass
        Bass guitar

        The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
      • Chris Ethridge
        Chris Ethridge

        Chris Ethridge is a country rock bass guitarist. He was a member of the International Submarine Band and The Flying Burrito Brothers, and co-wrote several songs with Gram Parsons....
         – bass
      • Mickey Raphael
        Mickey Raphael

        Mickey Raphael is a professional harmonica player, best known for his work with Willie Nelson. He has recorded with Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, M?tley Cr?e, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Wynton Marsalis, Kenny Chesney, U2 and Neil Young....
         – harmonica
        Harmonica

        The harmonica is a free reed aerophone wind instrument which is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes....
      • Booker T. Jones
        Booker T. Jones

        Booker T. Jones is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known for frontman the band , Booker T. and the MGs....
         – organ
        Organ (music)

        The organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard played either Manual or Pedal clavier. The organ is one of the oldest musical instruments in the European classical music....
        , piano