New Willie Nelson Album, To All The Girls... Enters Billboard 200 at #9

Willie's Latest for Legacy is Artist's 1st Top 10 Billboard 200 Album Since 1982

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Oct 23, 2013, 03:23 ET

NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- To All The Girls..., Willie Nelson's new studio album and third for Legacy Recordings, has debuted at #9 on the Billboard 200, the artist's highest position on the nation's popular albums chart since Always On My Mind peaked there for three weeks at #2 in 1982. Willie's latest debuts at #2 on the Top Country Albums chart.

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Recorded mainly in Nashville, To All The Girls... is a collection of newly recorded duets between American musical legend Willie Nelson and an A-list roster of contemporary pop-country women singers including Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Sheryl Crow, Loretta Lynn, Wynonna Judd, Rosanne Cash, Alison Krauss, Miranda Lambert, Tina Rose, Carrie Underwood, Emmylou Harris, Norah Jones, Secret Sisters, Brandi Carlile, Lily Meola, Shelby Lynne, Melonie Cannon and Paula Nelson.

I must be the luckiest guy in the world
Thank you ladies
For singing with me
Lov
Willie

The artist's second new album release in 2013, his 80th birthday year, To All The Girls... is the third new Willie Nelson album since his historic deal with Legacy Recordings was announced in February 2012.

Heroes, his first for Legacy, was released May 2012, and spent five consecutive weeks at #1 on the Americana Radio Chart.

The critically-heralded Let's Face The Music And Dance, Willie's second Legacy album, was released on April 16, 2013 (two weeks before Willie's 80th birthday) and featured a range of pop, rock, jazz and country classics chosen by Nelson.

The artist's third full-length album of new music to be released in a 16 month period, To All The Girls... celebrates Willie's 80th birthday year with duet performances of classic songs from America's country, pop and gospel repertoire.

The success of To All The Girls... is latest in a banner year for the pop country patriarch who, in addition to releasing three essential new albums in 16 months, penned a rollicking memoir, "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die - Musings from the Road" (published by HarperCollins in May 2012) which hit the New York Times bestselling non-fiction list.

For this memorable occasion, Willie wears fashion designer John Varvatos on the To All The Girls… album materials. Varvatos also features Willie along with his two sons, Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson, in the brand's Fall 2013 campaign, which includes striking black and white images and a short film lensed by Danny Clinch.

To All The Girls...
track listing

Dolly Parton - From Here To The Moon And Back
Miranda Lambert - She Was No Good For Me
Secret Sisters - It Won't Be Very Long
Rosanne Cash - Please Don't Tell Me
Sheryl Crow – Far Away Places
Wynonna Judd - Bloody Mary Morning
Carrie Underwood - Always On My Mind
Loretta Lynn - Somewhere Between
Alison Krauss - No Mas Amor
Melonie Cannon - Back To Earth
Mavis Staples - Grandma's Hands
Norah Jones - Walkin'
Shelby Lynne - Til The End Of The World
Lily Meola - Will You Remember Mine
Emmylou Harris - Dry Lightning
Brandi Carlile - Making Believe
Paula Nelson - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
Tina Rose - After The Fire Is Gone

About Willie Nelson

With a six-decade career and a catalog of more than 200 albums to his credit, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelson has earned a permanent position in pop music's pantheon with songs that combine the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. He brought pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s with unforgettable songs like "Crazy" (Patsy Cline), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young), "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Night Life" (Ray Price) and others and, by the mid-1970s, had become a superstar in his own right as a prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger, Willie's first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist to the front ranks of popularity, making his a name familiar in country and city households across America and around-the-world.

A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert in 1985 to raise money for American family farmers. He continues to lobby against horse slaughter and produces his own blend of biodiesel fuel. An old-school road-dog troubadour with new school wheels, Willie plays concerts year-round, tirelessly touring on Honeysuckle Rose III (he rode his first two buses into the ground), taking his music and fans to places that are always worth the ride.

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