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Willie and the Wheel (2009)

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This Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel album was nominated for a Grammy, but it lost that category to another record.

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Willie and the Wheel is an album by American country music artists Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel
Released February 3, 2009, on Bismeaux Records
The track list has 13 songs
Songs by other writers include Walter Donaldson's Sweet Jennie Lee, Bob Wills's I'll Have Somebody Else and Rex Griffin's Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon

Ray Benson is credited as producer, arranger and on art direction
Jerry Wexler is credited as executive producer
Vince Gill plays electric guitar, and Paul Shaffer plays piano on South, sung with Gill

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.

Willie and the Wheel was released on February 3, 2009, on Bismeaux Records.
The album is credited to American country music artists Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel.
The track list runs to 13 songs, and most entries give writing credits.
Tracks 1, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are credited as traditional songs.
Ray Benson arranged those traditional songs for this recording.
Jerry Wexler is credited as executive producer.
Ray Benson is credited as producer, and he also handled liner notes, art direction and mixing.

The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Americana Album.
The Spanish-language article notes that it lost that category to Levon Helm's album Electric Dirt.
The nomination is the one award-related fact the sources give for the album.

Grammy Award for Best Americana Album: nominated
Thirteen tracks in total
Track 13 appears only on the deluxe version of the album, which includes unique postcards for each track.

Tracks 1, 5, 6, 8 and 9 are traditional songs that Ray Benson arranged for this recording.
The deluxe version adds Track 13 and a unique postcard for each track.
The Spanish-language article says the album lost the Grammy category to Levon Helm's Electric Dirt.
Paul Shaffer and Vince Gill are both credited on South, the one track that lists guest performers in its title line.