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Last of the Breed (2007)

Where the lyrics of Last of the Breed take you, and where it was really made.

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price made this two-disc album together, and Rolling Stone placed it in its 2007 top 50, yet it debuted only at number 64 on the Billboard 200.

Key places

Recorded at Sound Kitchen (2007)

Recording site Sound Kitchen — Discogs lists Sound Kitchen as a place where this album was recorded. The map point is at city-centre level, so the exact studio building is not shown. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recorded at The Blue Room, Nashville (2007)

Recording site Nashville — Discogs credits The Blue Room in Nashville, Tennessee as a recording location for this album. The map point is at city-centre level, so the exact building is not shown. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Two-disc album by American country singers Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ray Price
• Released 20 March 2007 on Lost Highway Records
• Disc one and disc two each hold 11 songs
• Producer Fred Foster; mastering credited to Hank Williams at Mastermix

Background

• Nelson's 60th studio album
• Three singers from the same country music tradition share lead vocals across the set
• Mixed and recorded with a group of Nashville-area session players

Recording

• Recorded at Sound Kitchen and at The Blue Room in Nashville, Tennessee
• Mixed at Sound Kitchen
• Engineer Brent Maher; assistant engineer Brian Krause
• Eddie Bayers on drums and Buddy Emmons on pedal steel guitar

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• 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.

Career

• 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.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• AllMusic's Mark Deming says that at its best the album sounds the way these records did in the old days
• Robert Christgau says the three singers are feeling their varying ages, but they are not dead yet
• Steven Deusner says the songs sound like an attempt to recreate a past style rather than anchor them in the present, and calls it a shame the album is not better
• Slant Magazine's Jonathan Keefe takes issue with the title but praises the album as a collection that is nearly flawless in its execution

Records

• Debuted at number 64 on the U.S. Billboard 200, selling about 13,000 copies in its first week
• Ranked number 33 on Rolling Stone's Top 50 Albums of 2007
• Nelson and Price won a Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals for 'Lost Highway'

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Vince Gill sings harmony vocals on 'Heartaches by the Number'
• Willie Nelson and Ray Price won a Grammy together for 'Lost Highway'
• Discogs credits Sound Kitchen and The Blue Room in Nashville, Tennessee as recording locations

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

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