
Red Headed Stranger
1975
Columbia thought the tapes were demos because it cost twenty thousand dollars and had almost nothing on it but guitar and voice.
★ 7.5

Columbia thought the tapes were demos because it cost twenty thousand dollars and had almost nothing on it but guitar and voice.

Jennings won the right to use his own road band instead of Nashville session men, and gave nine of the ten songs to one unknown writer.

Nelson's house had burned down and he had moved to Austin. He wrote the title song on the wrapper of a sanitary napkin.

RCA put it together from recordings already sitting in its vaults, and it became the first country album to sell a million copies.

Jennings had just torn up his contract and renegotiated it, winning the right to record his own way. You can hear him testing that.