…and Then I Wrote by Willie Nelson

...And Then I Wrote is Willie Nelson's debut album, cut for Liberty in August and September 1962 with Joe Allison producing, and the title is no idle boast. By then the Texan had already failed to break through as a singer and turned to selling his songs instead: "Family Bible" was a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, and once he moved to Nashville and signed on as a writer with Pamper Music, "Hello Walls" went to Faron Young, "Night Life" to Ray Price and "Crazy" to Patsy Cline.

Those hits got him his own record deal, and here he finally sings his songs himself, "Crazy" and "Funny How Time Slips Away" among them, in that behind-the-beat, conversational style that sounds nothing like the slick Nashville crooners of the day. The sessions started in Nashville and wrapped up at the label's studio in Los Angeles, and the single "Touch Me" reached number 7 on Billboard's country chart.

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