Flashback: Willie Nelson Releases ‘Phases & Stages’ 45 Years Ago
Album chronicled a bitter breakup and set the stage for Nelson’s masterpiece Red Headed Stranger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn8A72wnOZM By the early 1970s, Willie Nelson was both an acclaimed songwriter and a frustrated artist. Having recorded for Liberty and then RCA Records, the Texan notched just one Top Ten solo hit with “Touch Me,” in 1962. He wouldn’t have another until 1975, by which time he was recording for Columbia Records, a move that afforded him […]