I Love The Life I Live
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“I Love The Life I Live” — Willie Nelson (Carlyle’s, Arroyas, CA, September 3, 1993)
Willie Nelson’s contribution to American popular music is a boundless bounty, unmatched in its breadth and depth. He is perfectly peerless in that he is the creator of two of the most beloved, bestselling, influential, and important albums of all time, each completely disparate in sound and origin from the other. One, the magnum opus Red Headed Stranger, is a songwriter’s original concept piece, while the other, the endlessly listenable Stardust, is an interpretive collection of pop standards. Here, he’s harking back to the classic Chess Records sound of the second greatest musician named Willie, the Chicago bluesman Dixon, to create what could be the theme song of The Australian’s life-loving music and humanity blog.