''Rainbow Connection'' is the 49th studio album by
country singer
Willie Nelson. It was recorded in December 2000 and January 2001 at Willie's ranch near Spicewood, TX.
Willie’s daughter Amy Nelson was just five years old when she first heard Kermit the Frog sing “Rainbow Connection” in The Muppet Movie, and she spent the next twenty years trying to talk her dad into recording it. In 2001, he finally did, with Amy—an accomplished musician in her own right—co-producing.
''Rainbow Connection'' was nominated for the 44th
Grammy Award for
Best Country Album.
Track listing
#"
Rainbow Connection" (
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Kenneth Ascher) – 4:29
#"
I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" (Paul Edgar Johnson) – 2:30
#"
Ol' Blue" (Traditional) – 2:36
#"Wise Old Me" (Amy Nelson) – 4:14
#"Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon" (
Rex Griffin) – 1:28
#"Playmate" (
Henry W. Petrie
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) – 1:37
#"
I'm My Own Grandpa" (Dwight Latham, Moe Jaffe) – 3:19
#"Rock Me to Sleep" (
Tom Hunter) – 3:16
#"Playin' Dominoes and Shootin' Dice" (Tex Woods, O.D. Dobbs) – 2:46
#"Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way" (
Willie Nelson) – 1:55
#"Outskirts of Town" (
Casey Bill Weldon
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) – 7:20
#"
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (
Mickey Newbury) – 3:42
#"The Thirty-Third of August" (
Mickey Newbury)– 4:33
Personnel
*
Willie Nelson – Guitar, vocals
*
Matt Hubbard
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– Harmonica, electric bass, bongos, keyboards, electric piano
*Amy Nelson – Vocals, background vocals, vocal harmony
*Lana Nelson – Vocals
*George Fowler - Background vocals
*Paula Nelson – Vocals
*Gabe Rhodes – Guitar
*David Zettner – Pedal steel, electric bass, guitar
Chart performance
References
2001 albums
Willie Nelson albums
Island Records albums
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