Me neither, I can't believe I'm reviewing a Willie Nelson record, but I've heard about this album around the camp fire a so many times -- I couldn't resist it. Willie is playing back to the basics American country Folk music, which at the time was unheard of for a commercial artist, who was just given complete freedom by the industry. The record is a concept album, about a Red Headed Stranger, aka, the preacher who catches his wife in an infidelity, kills her and new lover out of blind rage, he flees and becomes an outlaw ... eventually our anti-hero is an old man with a new life, wife and grandchild, picnicking in the sun.
