Artist	Song
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Bubbles in My Beer
from For the Last Time (1994)
Lefty Frizzell	I Love You a Thousand Ways
from Look What Thoughts Will Do (1997)
Django Reinhardt	Honeysuckle Rose
from Djangology 49 (1990)
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from Turn Back the Years - The Essential Hank Williams Collection (2005)
Jimmie Rodgers	Miss the Mississippi and You
from RCA Country Legends: Jimmie Rodgers (2002)
The Original Carter Family	Can the Circle Be Unbroken
from Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family (2000)
Roy Acuff	Great Speckle Bird
from The Essential Roy Acuff (1992)
Ernest Tubb	Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
from Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection (2006)
Floyd Tillman	This Cold War With You
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 2: Honky Tonk Heroes (1991)
Ted Daffan & His Texans	Born to Lose
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 1 - The Golden Age (1991)
Cindy Walker	You’re from Texas
from Country Girl: The Complete Transcription Recordings of Cindy Walker Vol. 2 (2007)
Louis Armstrong	On the Sunny Side of the Street
from Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra, Vol. 2 (1936-1938): Heart Full of Rhythm (1993)
Hoagy Carmichael	Baltimore Oriole
from Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1988)
Frank Sinatra	Glad To Be Unhappy
from In The Wee Small Hours (1998)
Ray Charles	Drown In My Own Tears
from Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) [Remastered] (2005)
T-Bone Walker	Stormy Monday Blues
from Blues Legends (1994)
Ray Price	Invitation to the Blues
from The Essential Ray Price (2007)
Webb Pierce	There Stands the Glass
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Webb Pierce (2001)
Marty Robbins	El Paso
from Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1999)
Flaco Jimenez	Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
from The Best of Flaco Jimenez (2011)
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant	Country Capers
from Radio & Recording Rarities, Volume 6 (2006)
Woody Guthrie	Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know You)
from Storytellers - Woody Guthrie (Chapter two) (2007)
Lightnin' Hopkins	Short Haired Woman
from Lightnin' Hopkins: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (1991)
Isidro Lopez	Cuartro Vidas (Bolero)
from 15 More Original Hits (15 Mas Exitos), Vol. 2 (2011)
Frankie Yankovic	Just Because
from The Best of Frankie Yankovic (2004)
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys	Bubbles in My Beer
from For the Last Time (1994)
Lefty Frizzell	I Love You a Thousand Ways
from Look What Thoughts Will Do (1997)
Django Reinhardt	Honeysuckle Rose
from Djangology 49 (1990)
Hank Williams	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
from Turn Back the Years - The Essential Hank Williams Collection (2005)
Jimmie Rodgers	Miss the Mississippi and You
from RCA Country Legends: Jimmie Rodgers (2002)
The Original Carter Family	Can the Circle Be Unbroken
from Can the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music's First Family (2000)
Roy Acuff	Great Speckle Bird
from The Essential Roy Acuff (2004)
Ernest Tubb	Drivin' Nails In My Coffin
from Ernest Tubb: The Definitive Collection (2006)
Floyd Tillman	This Cold War With You
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 2: Honky Tonk Heroes (1991)
Ted Daffan & His Texans	Born to Lose
from Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 1 - The Golden Age (1991)
Cindy Walker	You’re from Texas
from Country Girl: The Complete Transcription Recordings of Cindy Walker Vol. 2 (2007)
Louis Armstrong	On the Sunny Side of the Street
from Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra, Vol. 2 (1936-1938): Heart Full of Rhythm (1993)
Hoagy Carmichael	Baltimore Oriole
from Hoagy Sings Carmichael (1988)
Frank Sinatra	Glad To Be Unhappy
from In The Wee Small Hours (1998)
Ray Charles	Drown In My Own Tears
from Pure Genius: The Complete Atlantic Recordings (1952-1959) [Remastered] (2005)
T-Bone Walker	Stormy Monday Blues
from Blues Legends (1994)
Ray Price	Invitation to the Blues
from The Essential Ray Price (2007)
Webb Pierce	There Stands the Glass
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Webb Pierce (2001)
Marty Robbins	El Paso
from Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1999)
Flaco Jimenez	Ay Te Dejo en San Antonio
from The Best of Flaco Jimenez (2011)
Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant	Country Capers
from Radio & Recording Rarities, Volume 6 (2006)
Woody Guthrie	Dusty Old Dust (So Long It's Been Good to Know You)
from Storytellers - Woody Guthrie (Chapter two) (2007)
Lightnin' Hopkins	Short Haired Woman
from Lightnin' Hopkins: The Complete Aladdin Recordings (1991)
Isidro Lopez	Cuartro Vidas (Bolero)
from 15 More Original Hits (15 Mas Exitos), Vol. 2 (2011)
Frankie Yankovic	Just Because
from The Best of Frankie Yankovic (2004)

Comment:

Because Willie’s musical workings fit together with the seamless precision of a Harley-Davidson, it’s sometimes difficult to figure where all its parts were crafted. Songwriter Cindy Walker penned “Bubbles in My Beer” for Western swing king Bob Wills, and the two of them seared their way into Nelson’s consciousness to the degree that he devoted a whole album to Walker’s songwriting, leading with this tune. Marty Robbins’ guitarist Grady Martin chucked the cowboy’s traditional steel-string guitar for the sweeter Spanish nylon-string sound in “El Paso,” and it fit Willie’s cracked-leather voice like a pair of broken-in boots. And Frank Sinatra’s booze-soaked world-weariness in “Glad to Be Unhappy” ranks up there with such Nelson standards as “Funny How Time Slips Away” on Heartbreak Hotel’s lonely-guy jukebox. But that’s not all — Nelson’s roots extend from Tex-Mex to hillbilly and beyond. Happy digging!

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