Lost Highway (Willie Nelson album)
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Lost Highway is a compilation album by country
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 artist Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...

. It was released on August 11, 2009.

Track listing

  1. "Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)" (Rob Thomas
    Rob Thomas (musician)
    Robert Kelly "Rob" Thomas is an American rock recording artist and songwriter. He is the primary songwriter and lead singer of the band Matchbox Twenty. Thomas also records and performs as a solo artist...

    ) – 4:20
    • with Rob Thomas
  2. "Mendocino Country Line" (Matt Serletic
    Matt Serletic
    Matt Serletic is a record producer who has worked with several popular bands and artists for Atlantic Records, including Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls, Edwin McCain, Stacie Orrico, Taylor Hicks, Rob Thomas, and singer/songwriter Angie Aparo. Serletic will be working with...

    , Bernie Taupin
    Bernie Taupin
    Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement in...

    ) – 4:32
    • with Lee Ann Womack
      Lee Ann Womack
      Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter, who is best known for her old fashioned-styled country music songs that often discuss subjects such as cheating and lost love....

  3. "Back to Earth" (Willie Nelson) – 2:58
  4. "The Harder They Come" (Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences...

    ) – 3:38
  5. "Over You Again" (W. Nelson, Micah Nelson, Lukas Nelson) – 5:35
  6. "You Don't Know Me" (Eddy Arnold
    Eddy Arnold
    Richard Edward Arnold , known professionally as Eddy Arnold, was an American country music singer who performed for six decades. He was a so-called Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more...

    , Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker
    Cindy Walker was a prolific American songwriter, as well as a country music singer and dancer. As a songwriter Walker was responsible for a large number of popular and enduring songs recorded by many different artists. She adopted a craftsman-like approach to her songwriting, often tailoring...

    ) – 3:40
  7. "Lost Highway" (Leon Payne
    Leon Payne
    Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...

    ) – 2:52
    • with Ray Price
      Ray Price (musician)
      Ray Price is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist. His wide-ranging baritone has often been praised as among the best male voices of country music...

  8. "Beer for My Horses
    Beer for My Horses
    "Beer for My Horses" is the title of a song recorded by American country music artists Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. It was released in April 2003 as the fourth and final single from Keith's 2002 album Unleashed. The song spent six weeks at Number One on the U.S...

    " (Scotty Emerick
    Scotty Emerick
    Walter Scott "Scotty" Emerick is an American country music artist, known primarily for his work with Toby Keith. In addition to penning several of Keith's singles, Emerick has also written for Sawyer Brown, George Strait and several other artists...

    , Toby Keith
    Toby Keith
    Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...

    ) – 3:30
    • with Toby Keith
  9. "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
    Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
    "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" is a song written by songwriter Fred Rose. Originally performed by Roy Acuff, the song was later recorded by Willie Nelson as part of his 1975 album Red Headed Stranger. Both the song and album would become iconic in country music history, and jump start Nelson's...

    " (Fred Rose
    Fred Rose (musician)
    Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...

    ) – 2:58
    • with Shania Twain
      Shania Twain
      Shania Twain, OC is a Canadian country pop singer-songwriter. Her album The Woman in Me , brought her fame and her 1997 album Come On Over, became the best-selling album of all time by a female musician in any genre, and the best-selling country album of all time. It has sold over 40 million...

  10. "Overtime" (Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams
    Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...

    ) – 3:44
    • with Lucinda Williams
  11. "I'm Still Not Over You" (W. Nelson) – 3:59
    • with Ray Price
  12. "Superman" (W. Nelson) – 2:12
  13. "Bubbles in My Beer" (Tommy Duncan
    Tommy Duncan
    Thomas Elmer Duncan , better known as Tommy Duncan, was a pioneering American Western swing vocalist and songwriter who gained fame in the 1930s as a founding member of The Texas Playboys...

    , Walker, Bob Wills
    Bob Wills
    James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...

    ) – 2:48
  14. "Crazy
    Crazy (Willie Nelson song)
    "Crazy" is a ballad composed by Willie Nelson. It has been recorded by several artists, most notably by Patsy Cline, whose version was a #2 country hit in 1962....

    " (W. Nelson) – 4:37
    • with Diana Krall
      Diana Krall
      Diana Jean Krall, OC, OBC is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer, known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 6 million albums in the US and over 15 million worldwide; altogether, she has sold more albums than any other female jazz artist during the 1990s and 2000s...

       and Elvis Costello
      Elvis Costello
      Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...

  15. "Both Sides of Goodbye" (Jackson Leap, Kim Williams) – 4:18
  16. "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other
    Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other
    "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other" is, according to Gene Tyranny, "the famous gay cowboy song" by Latin country musician Ned Sublette, whose music, according to Howard Cohen, features a, "lilting West Texas waltz feel"...

    " (Ned Sublette
    Ned Sublette
    Ned Sublette is an American composer, musician, record producer and musicologist. Sublette studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain. He studied composition with Kenneth Gaburo at the University of California, San Diego...

    ) – 3:33
  17. "Ain't Goin' Down on Brokeback Mountain" (Ben Hayslip, Brandon Kinney, Wynn Varble) – 2:53

Chart performance

Chart (2009) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 29
U.S. Billboard Top 200 173
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