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Willie Nelson's Countryman (Lost Highway)

Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, July 2005

HEARING WILLIE Nelson’s first reggae album, you’re bound to ask: What took him so long? There’s a rather sympathetic correlation between the Nelson’s rather lazy, arrhythmic Zen guitar playing and the upbeat syncopation of reggae.

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