Artist: Willie Nelson

Title: Things To Remember: The Pamper Demos

Year Of Release: 2018

Label: Real Gone Music – RGM-0652

Genre: Country

Quality:  FLAC

Total Time: 69:43

Total Size:  323 MB





Tracklist:



1. Where Were You Yesterday (2:02)

2. More Than One Way To Cry (2:22)

3. I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye (3:29)

4. A Broken Promise (2:13)

5. I'm Gonna Lose A Lotta Teardrops (2:1

6. Little Things (4:24)

7. Will You Remember Mine (3:04)

8. My Own Peculiar Way (2:56)

9. I Gotta Get Drunk (1:3

10. Half A Man (2:45)

11. You Left A Long Time Ago (3:01)

12. Undo The Right (2:59)

13. I've Just Destroyed The World (1:13)

14. Are You Sure (2:05)

15. Country Willie (2:11)

16. Three Days (1:15)

17. You Wouldn't Cross The Street (1:49)

18. Pretty Paper (2:30)

19. Night Life (2:25)

20. Hello Walls (2:12)

21. Healing Hands Of Time (2:20)

22. Good Times (2:26)

23. Funny How Time Slips Away (3:04)

24. Crazy (3:5

25. Within Your Crowd (2:37)

26. Save Your Tears (1:55)

27. A Moment Isn't Very Long (3:02)

28. Things To Remember (1:45)



Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Real Gone's 2018 Things to Remember: The Pamper Demos gathers all the existing demos Willie Nelson recorded for Pamper Music in the early '70s. Several of these recordings initially appeared on the 1995 Rhino box A Classic & Unreleased Collection, then Sugar Hill Records' 2003 set Crazy: The Demo Sessions contained five additional tracks, totaling a grand 15. Things to Remember trumps both sets by gathering 28 demos, nearly tripling the Sugar Hill set. "Demos" suggests these recordings are spare, but many of them bear full arrangements, with piano, steel guitar, and drums; only a handful feature nothing but a guitar and voice. Things to Remember is front-loaded with the material that didn't make it to Crazy, and while there are no standards among these numbers, this collection does serve up the exceptional early original versions of "Crazy," "Healing Hands of Time," "Funny How Time Slips Away," "Pretty Paper," "Hello Walls," and "Night Life" later in the disc. These unheard tracks find Nelson writing strong numbers, whether they're Texas two-steppers like "Where Were You Yesterday" or the cold-blooded murder ballad "I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye." As impressive as Nelson's songwriting acumen are his performances. Whether on his own or with a band, he demonstrates the wily, inventive phrasing that would later become his trademark, which means these demos never feel perfunctory: they're as fully realized as any of his early recordings, possibly even richer in some ways.