Masked Weasel
2005
The Ghost
About This Album
It's a little difficult to remember that certain performers, performers who've become legends in their own time like Willie Nelson, weren't born legends. Nelson, like Waylon Jennings, struggled through the '60s and the earliest part of the '70s before he became a beloved outlaw (indeed, Nelson even struggled through most of the '50s). Masked Weasel doesn't offer a lot of info on the sources for the recordings that grace The Ghost, only that they represent "a collection of laid-back Nelson recordings from the 1960s and '70s...." In a way, these recordings have the same sort of appeal as Crazy: The Demo Sessions, released in 2003 by Sugar Hill, tracing the master back to his roots. And while the recording quality on The Ghost doesn't match the Sugar Hill material, it is a fairly solid collection ("I Let My Mind Wander," "I Didn't Sleep a Wink"). The album also provides a fuzzy snapshot of what Nelson sounded like before he became the Nelson you now know. The problem, though, is that without a better idea where the material for The Ghost comes from, it's impossible to tell how much of it is new and how much of it was cribbed from out of print albums. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., All Music Guide
Track List (try tracks 2,3,4,5 and 6)

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