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To Lefty From Willie

Studio album by Willie Nelson

Released

June 1977

Recorded

1975

Studio

January Sound Studios, Dallas, Texas

Genre

Country

Length

28:31

Willie Nelson chronology

The Troublemaker
(1976)

To Lefty From Willie
(1977)

There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
(1978)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide	B+
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

To Lefty From Willie is a studio album by American country music singer Willie Nelson. Recorded in 1975, the album sat in the vaults of Columbia Records until 1977. It is Willie Nelson's tribute to fellow country singer Lefty Frizzell.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mom and Dad's Waltz"	Lefty Frizzell	3:02
2.	"Look What Thoughts Will Do"	Frizzell, Dub Dickerson, Jim Beck	2:42
3.	"I Love You a Thousand Ways"	Frizzell, Beck	2:59
4.	"Always Late (with Your Kisses)"	Frizzell, Blackie Crawford	2:25
5.	"I Want to Be with You Always"	Frizzell, Beck	2:39
6.	"She's Gone, Gone, Gone"	Harlan Howard	2:31
7.	"A Little Unfair"	Chuck Howard, Hank Cochran	3:42
8.	"I Never Go Around Mirrors"	Frizzell, Sanger D. Shafer	2:34
9.	"That's the Way Love Goes"	Frizzell, Shafer	3:11
10.	"Railroad Lady"	Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffett	2:39

2003 bonus track

"If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" (Frizzell, Beck) – 1:39

Personnel

Willie Nelson – guitar, vocals
Jody Payne – guitar
Bee Spears – bass
Bobbie Nelson – piano
Rex Ludwig – drums
Paul English – drums
Mickey Raphael – harmonica

References

AllMusic review
Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: N". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 8, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 499, 500.
Willistein, Paul (2 Sep 1984). "'Living Legend' Is Returning for Allentown Fair Show Today". The Morning Call. p. F1.

Willie Nelson

Studio albums

1960s	...And Then I Wrote Here's Willie Nelson Country Willie: His Own Songs Country Favorites – Willie Nelson Style Make Way for Willie Nelson The Party's Over Texas in My Soul Good Times My Own Peculiar Way
1970s	Both Sides Now Laying My Burdens Down Willie Nelson and Family Yesterday's Wine The Words Don't Fit the Picture The Willie Way Shotgun Willie Phases and Stages Red Headed Stranger The Sound in Your Mind The Troublemaker To Lefty from Willie Waylon & Willie Stardust One for the Road Sings Kristofferson Pretty Paper The Electric Horseman
1980s	San Antonio Rose Honeysuckle Rose Family Bible Somewhere Over the Rainbow Always On My Mind In the Jailhouse Now WWII Pancho & Lefty Tougher Than Leather Take It to the Limit Without a Song Angel Eyes City of New Orleans Music from Songwriter Me & Paul Partners The Promiseland Island in the Sea Seashores of Old Mexico What a Wonderful World A Horse Called Music
1990s	Born for Trouble The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? Clean Shirt Across the Borderline Moonlight Becomes You Six Hours at Pedernales Healing Hands of Time Just One Love Augusta Spirit How Great Thou Art Teatro Night and Day
2000s	Tales Out of Luck (Me and the Drummer) Milk Cow Blues Rainbow Connection The Great Divide Nacogdoches It Always Will Be Countryman You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker Songbird Last of the Breed Moment of Forever Willie and the Wheel American Classic
2010s	Country Music Remember Me, Vol. 1 Heroes Let's Face the Music and Dance To All the Girls... Band of Brothers December Day Django and Jimmie Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price God's Problem Child Willie Nelson and the Boys Last Man Standing My Way Ride Me Back Home
2020s	First Rose of Spring That's Life The Willie Nelson Family A Beautiful Time I Don't Know a Thing About Love Bluegrass The Border Last Leaf on the Tree

Live albums

Compilations

Columbus Stockade Blues
Country Winners
The Best of Willie Nelson
Spotlight on Willie Nelson
Country Willie
What Can You Do to Me Now
The Longhorn Jamboree Presents: Willie Nelson & His Friends
Willie – Before His Time
Face of a Fighter
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
Sweet Memories
Always
Willie Nelson: His Very Best
Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be)
The Minstrel Man
The Best of Willie Nelson
20 of the Best
Collector's Series
Half Nelson
Love Songs
Yours Always
The Hungry Years
Any Old Arms Won't Do
Super Hits
Super Hits, Volume 2
Revolutions of Time...The Journey 1975/1993
Willie Standard Time
16 Biggest Hits
Good Ol' Country Singin'
All the Songs I've Loved Before: 40 Unforgettable Songs
Crazy: The Demo Sessions
The Essential Willie Nelson
Songs
16 Biggest Hits, Volume II
One Hell of a Ride
Playlist: The Very Best of Willie Nelson
Legend: The Best of Willie Nelson
Naked Willie
Lost Highway

Books

Category

v t e Lefty Frizzell
Singles	"If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time" "Look What Thoughts Will Do" "I Want to Be with You Always" "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" "Mom and Dad's Waltz" "Give Me More, More, More (Of Your Kisses)" "Don't Stay Away (Till Love Grows Cold)" "I'm an Old, Old Man (Tryin' to Live While I Can)" "Long Black Veil" "Saginaw, Michigan" "She's Gone Gone Gone" "You, Babe"
Albums	Songs of Jimmie Rodgers (1951) Listen to Lefty (1952) The One and Only (1959) Saginaw Michigan (1964) The Sad Side of Love (1965) Puttin' On (1967) The Legendary Lefty Frizzell (1973)
Related articles	Discography David Frizzell To Lefty from Willie

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