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Just One Love (1995)

Where the lyrics of Just One Love take you, and where it was really made.

Most of the record is made of old songs: ten of its twelve tracks are covers of pre-rock 'n' roll country and honky tonk.

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Published by Transatlantic Records, according to the Spanish-language Wikipedia entry
Focus on country and honky tonk music from before rock 'n' roll
Kimmie Rhodes is credited as writer of "Just One Love" and "I Just Drove By"
Rhodes also sings on the duets with Nelson

1	Just One Love	4:05
2	Each Night at Nine	2:24
3	This Cold Cold War With You	2:55
4	Better Left Forgotten	3:07
5	It’s a Sin	2:04
6	Four Walls	4:14
7	Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)	2:57
8	I Just Dropped By	4:15
9	Cold, Cold Heart	3:13
10	Bonaparte’s Retreat	2:10
11	Alabam	2:41
12	Eight More Miles to Louisville	2:17

Born Willie Hugh Nelson on April 29, 1933, in Abbott, Texas.
Wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band, Bohemian Polka, as a guitarist at age nine.
Attended Baylor University for two years before dropping out to pursue music.
Moved to Nashville in 1960 and joined Ray Price's band as a bassist.

Songs such as "Crazy" (Patsy Cline), "Funny How Time Slips Away" and "Pretty Paper" became hits for other artists.
Debut album ...And Then I Wrote was released in 1962; joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1965.
Helped lead the outlaw country movement after moving to Austin, Texas in 1972.
Red Headed Stranger (1975) was a critically acclaimed concept album; the single "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" became his first number one hit.
Co-founded Farm Aid in 1985 with Neil Young and John Mellencamp.
Acted in over 30 films, including The Electric Horseman (1979).
Received a Grammy Award for Best Country Solo Performance for "Ride Me Back Home" (2019).
Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998.

Entertainment Weekly wrote that the album finds Nelson "veering between simple elegance and somnambulism."
The Washington Post deemed it "a superb, old-fashioned honky-tonk album."
The two reviews point at different sides of the same record: one hears swings between elegance and sleepiness, the other hears a finished old-style honky tonk album.

Entertainment Weekly's comment centres on how the performances move between simple elegance and somnambulism.
The Washington Post's comment centres on the album's old-fashioned honky tonk style.
Both comments treat the record as a return to older country material rather than a modern country release.

Twelve tracks in total.
Ten tracks are covers of pre-rock 'n' roll country and honky tonk songs.
"Cold, Cold Heart" is a Hank Williams song included on the album.
"Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)" is credited to Merle Travis and Tex Williams.
"Four Walls" is credited to George Campbell and Marvin Moore.
Two duets with Kimmie Rhodes appear on the album.

"Eight More Miles to Louisville" is a cover of a Grandpa Jones song, and Grandpa Jones himself plays banjo and sings on the album.
Kimmie Rhodes sings on two duets with Willie Nelson, and she is also credited as writer of "Just One Love" and "I Just Drove By".
The album's personnel list includes Lisa Jones on dulcimer alongside a large group of session guitarists, bassists and drummers.