Stardust

Not my thing. Willie performs these songs well, but I have always found the "standards" uninteresting. I could see this being the perfect album for a very specific mood, but at 51, I've not found that mood yet.

Willie Nelson is a living legend of country music. He turned ninety-three this year, marking the occasion with his seventy-ninth album (not counting live records or soundtracks) and a supporting tour. The secret, folks, is to keep your heart young! At one point, Willie decided to try his hand at pop music, releasing this collection of ten covers of classic American hits from the first half of the 20th century. At the time, he was known for his "outlaw cowboy" persona, so no one expected the project to take off — but, lo and behold, it did! The thing is, these songs only feel familiar, timeless, and truly touching if you happen to be an older American. If not, they just come across as pleasant, well-played, and well-sung music — but also, ultimately, quite monotonous. With all due respect, the only setting where you could truly enjoy this album is while sitting in the lobby of a luxury hotel.

Solid and well-performed piece of country-adjacent soft rock, but lacking a true classic track to elevate it to higher status.

Covers

Som William skrev: ett cover-album kan inte bli mer än en trea.

Munspelet värmer själen

Sweet and mellow, warm fairy lights and a beer kind of music. Sunny side of the street was already in my favorites, but that's It for me.

- csodas singer-songwriter amcsi folk - andalito, megkapo, le coeur sur la main

🥹 ok

4.5 soothing!

Its nice. Its a bit boring and repetitive. I like Willie Nelson's voice, but I prefer his more upbeat country to these ballads

A very chill album. I'm not personally familiar with most of the original versions of these songs, so don't have opinions on them as covers. It's fine overall? Not something I'd listen to again. Love the cover art though. Rating: 2.5

7.1/10

One of my favorite albums of all time. Sparse arrangements that perfectly match his fragile voice, creating an incredibly intimate atmosphere.

Alright, peaceful, bit boring

To be honest it's the only Willie Nelson I own because I think it was his best work. Worth a listen.

This is my second Willie album on here and it’s honestly so surprising how beautiful and soft spoken of a performer he is. Hard pressed not to let this one tug at my heart strings.

It's okay. Just like pretty much all of Willie Nelson's music to me. No strong feelings.

favs: "Blue Skies" , "Georgia on My Mind", and "On the Sunny Side of the Street"

Willie Nelson is not an artist I will actively seek to listen to most of the time, but I'm always glad when he comes up. Stardust in particular has some fantastic tracks, but it sadly loses a lot of steam halfway through. Still, an enjoyable listen overall. Favourite track: Georgia On My Mind

I had forgotten he made a pop album. It's interesting because when listening you forget that. It sounds like a Willie album, feels like a Willie album. It's not until you realize you have heard all of these songs by a different artist that you go, "Oh!" It's fun. My wife and I listened while running errands and the album flew by so we listened again. Makes you want to deep dive on his discography. There is a reason damn near everyone knows him. He's great. I'm hoping there are more of his albums on the list. Awesome album.

Love it

Great evening/late night listen. Feels nostalgic, calming, melancholic at times and hopeful. Blending pop, folk, jazz and country. I appreciated the album and will revisit it when the feelings right. Perhaps on a warm summer evening.

Willie took a pretty big chance with this record and it really paid off. His contract gave him creative control, so if he wanted to do pop standards, he got to. He read the situation right in thinking that his older audience would care and his younger audience would figure it was his work. It was a big hit and holds up even now. My personal preference is his more outlaw country material, but this is a good record and is enjoyable to listen to.

5/10

I’m vaguely familiar with Willie Nelson, this was a nice primer with him performing standards, had a vibe similar to “A Little Touch of Schmillson in the Night” he has an earnest and pleasant voice, guitar playing was very good as well. Very nice.

Also a bit boring for me... expect more of a country album...

This album was a wonderful listen (and I listened twice). The beautiful arrangements (piano, guitar, strings) go well with Nelson's smooth voice. I appreciate that it's not twangy country music but a combination of styles that mostly resembles folk. It's one of those albums that you can let wash over you and feel good about it.

King of Outlaw country does soft pop with Booker T? And its beautiful, just a laid back, stripped bare, simple appreciation of the songs it covers.

I like how honest and unpretentious Willies voice is. My impression was that there's nothing easier to listen to than this in the morning (not that it's easy listening). Some covers from what I heard. Nothing super profound that stood out.

Fav: Blue Skies, All of Me L: Someone To Watch Over Me 3.5 I just think it's neat. Nothing special going on here but it's a nice listen. First half has a bit more going on for it in my opinion. Cover: 3 nice but kind of bland Name: 2 Minecraft Parody: Monsters Are Nearby (Moonlight in Vermont)

Вой ковбоя под луною

Необычный для него альбом, все каверы на поп-стандарты, для outlaw-ковбоя была рискованная затея, но она оправдалась и продажами, и признанием критиков. Звучит действительно приятно, но все же это не его песни.

Весьма приятная музыка

знал, что не понравится еще до начала прослушивания, по итогу даже лучше ожидания, но все равно - 3

Sure, I'll take some standards whenever they're on offer. Except Unchained Melody. You can keep that one. This was alright. I wish Booker T. was my neighbor.

Didn’t really connect with the album the way I wanted to.

Mother f****** red-headed stranger

Nice and relaxing. Perfect for staring out the window into the rain and pretending I’m in a music video

May be a surprise but this was bloody great and I liked it very much thanks Willie xx

I wish Willie had contributed his own songs to this album. But as a set of covers, Stardust is pretty darn good.

Rather nice, but pretty boring. Nice instrumentation, Willie's voice is nice, not much to complain about here. Except that it's just Willie Nelson doing straightforward pop standards. Not really what I was hoping for. I'd much rather hear some outlaw country if I'm listening to Willie Nelson. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" stands out to me.

looveee

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I'm familiar with Willie Nelson the person, but I can't really say I know his music that well. I just assumed he'd be high energy country music, but this album is really soft and mellifluous. This was a real easy listening album and one that I will definitely be playing again. 7.5/10

Willie’s just doing covers here but it’s in such a nice easy relaxing style that’s so pleasant

Willie does jazz standards is a strange concept but it mostly works!

Najs!!

4.5

Anything Willie does is amazing. He’ll be recording years from now.

Standouts Stardust Blue Skies

first impression of this album,I thought it was a cute calm jazzy album but it was not what I expected. im not really used to listening to country music,especially such calm country music but id say it left a good first impression. though I did only like 2 songs from this album because I think its a bit too calm for me. it feels like its missing something. this is the type of album id listen which sleeping.

Nice album with some nice cover songs. Seems to get a ton of praise. It’s an enjoyable listen, but it doesn’t seem “essential” to me. Willie is a great songwriter and I enjoy his original albums a bit more.

very very one-note, but he certainly knows his way around that one note not the most engaging album in the world, but sometimes all you need is some guy crooning over some nice-sounding chords and sad harmonica solos, in which case this definitely delivers favourite songs: georgia on my mind, all of me, on the sunny side of the street least favourite song: unchained melody

Asså det är väll ok, men det är för jäkla mossigt. Passar en tidig morgon i mellandagarna.

This is a lovely album. Nothing more, nothing less, just lovely.

2/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/willie-nelson/stardust/ Sure, nowhere is this really bad, per se. But it's also just not doing anything for me whatsoever. Don't care about the songs, don't care about the instrumentation, the singing is fine but nothing more. It does sound very good, production-wise.

Um disco de covers entre os 1001? Enfim, fui escutar. E que surpresa boa. Delicioso de ouvir, com a personalidade de Nelson, tornando as canções como se fossem suas. Certamente escutarei várias vezes. Merece estar na lista.

Beautiful songs, singing, musicianship...but I dunno, maybe I'm a little burnt out on standards covers, it's a bit too folksy for my taste

Quite calm, some would say boring.

Big Willie styles!! This is my Papa’s Willie, not my dad’s. I prefer my dad’s Willie.

It’s cute. Easy to listen to, I don’t love that it’s all covers, but it was cute

Willie doing an album of cover songs, I mean he is close to Johnny Cash in terms of being able to sing just about anything. This album was smooth and an easy listen. Willie did right on several big hits and it was worth listening to. But given it was just cover songs and not what I was really expecting from Willie, it gets 3 stars from me.

Don't like old country

What a left turn by the godfather of outlaw country. Cool tribute to the greats that inspired Willie and he does a good job taking these pop classics and making them his own. Booker T Jones does a great job with the arrangements. Willies band does a fantastic job switching gears from country to pop, they really make these familiar songs very comforting.

An album I was not expecting from Willie Nelson, and it was the perfect surprise. It’s currently grey and rainy outside, I’m under the weather and working from home. And this cozy and relaxing album was a great backing track for this scene. The jazzy, classical relaxing feel really works and his voice blends well with it all. Also love the album cover

This was one of the more difficult albums to listen to, honestly. I feel like I'm not in the mood for this music, even after I found out it was not country. Those are songs I don't really know because they were pop music even my grandparents were too young to hear when it was new. I'm also not American, so this emotional connection is completely lost. Willie Nelson may be one of the greatest country singers ever (I honestly have no idea, nor I want to know), but he's not exactly the most exciting singer out there. This is a problem because his versions of these songs I'm not attached to are rather simple and lacking. I tried finding other versions of some of the songs, and it appears there are Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, and even The Righteous Brothers songs that make Willie Nelson sound... Well, boring. All in all, great background music and nothing more. Giving it a little extra because it wasn't country.

this has a very very serious claim to being my actual favorite album of all time. Perfect for all times, seasons, moods and feelings. I love this album, have it memorized from beginning to end (I reject any extended versions or bonus tracks fwiw), and giving it all the possible stars isn't even close to enough thanks for all the hours of happiness and pleasure this album has given me over the years.

He is the man!

I am not really a fan of cover albums, but there is something about this one (a hint of 'stardust', perhaps) that makes this one stand out. If I had to wager, it would be the smooth guitar parts and the relaxed take on many of these popular standards, which complement with Nelson's voice nicely.

I believe this is mostly if not all covers but still great by a legend who is still alive.

Soporific.

Love it. Win. Will listen again.

Great album of standards and covers as country songs. Any album with these songs performed well would be at least a 3 or 4 for me. this is an exceptionally beautiful record and his voice is so nice. I really enjoyed

Really nice vibes, dont know how it works but it does lol, with the organ and harmonica. Big fan of booker T and the guitar playing is nice. Probably not a true 5 but very refreshing coming off some bad records

I wish I could rate this higher. It was beautiful

Absolutely lovely

OK

Good album. Just better ones out there

Rating: 4.7/5 Short Review: Beautiful. Willie takes these old standards and makes them feel completely natural to him. His imperfect, conversational voice against all those lush arrangements is the magic. Quiet, warm, slightly melancholy. This feels like an album that’s going to age extremely well with me. Favorite Track: Stardust

Great memories of this album, my dad would listen to this 8 track when I was young. I love the mood 3.7

very nice

First time ever listening to a Willie Nelson album and I didn’t like it one bit. Going in the only track of his I’d ever heard was On The Road again which I do kinda like. This was nothing like that, the whole album was so slow and dull for me. I was bored of it before the halfway point. I think I would like something of his that’s a bit more uptempo needless to say this wasn’t for me.

Crappy croning country? covers. I'm sure Willie is well regarded but this is variety show/karaoke material. I'll be honest, for the first time I've DNF the album. I made it to September song before not being able to take anymore. It reminded me of care homes, the steady countdown to the end and warbly thin voices. 0*

4,0 Highlights: Blue Skies, All of Me

Not enough Welly from this Willie

The only problem with a cover album is if you don't like one of the songs already you probably won't like the cover

yep, this is the good stuff

Iconic from the first strum of the guitar

5.5/10

A nice album. Not super engaging or noteworthy to me, except the way the album came to be.

Never liked country music

schattig

3.45 out of 5 stars for Willie's Stardust. I really like that Willie ventured out and did this album. Is this one that I can jam out to on a roadtrip? Nope, but it's full of really solid music. It came really close to getting the bump to 4 stars because of the wacky 5 star scale, but alas, it wasn't in the Blue Skies.

I have this album but I will often think when I haven’t listened to it in a while isn’t it just a bunch of well-known covers. Then I listen to it and it astounds me. Its not just his distinctive sparse voice that makes these tracks sound otherworldly it is the slight country tinge and incredible production work that enhances the original work.

Great country album. 4 star because these are covers

The very definition of "pleasant". Nice to listen to, and I mostly knew the songs already. Nelson has a very easy voice to enjoy and the instruments are minimal. I do like that somehow this album is a "fuck you" to the record company while consisting of the most milquetoast tunes ever put to tape. That's legit outlaw style. Nelson is one of the few that can somehow make not doing something in to actually doing that exact thing. Brilliant work.

I didn't realize the WHOLE thing was covers but it did register to me "wait this is not country". Either way, no song on here moved me to the point where I thought it was comparable to the originals.

Very much folky willie. Not bad but not my thing

Absolutely stunning album and the perfect album to listen to on the first below 60 degree day in September. I listened to this on my anniversary as well, so it was just the most perfect vibe. Love you Willie. It's nice to remember that he is a beautiful songwriter and that he knows how to make simple gorgeous and not boring. The way he sings takes it up such a level. Something in him timbre and tone just carries the whole thing. I don't know if I even need the instruments there for most of the songs.