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Clean Shirt
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Clean Shirt is a duet album by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, released on Epic Records in 1991.

Background

Jennings, who had just moved to Epic from MCA, expressed his frustration at producer Bob Montgomery, who seemed far more excited at the prospect of a collaboration between Jennings and Nelson than a new Jennings solo album:

He was really hot to team me up with Willie. "I want Willie involved in this," he said almost the first day we were in the studio." "Oh no you don't," I told him. "Not in
Sinatra. He likes to come in and sing and leave." He kept on about Willie...Bob eventually got his way...[1]

The two singers' last collaboration, after

Take It to the Limit (1983), it was released at a time which coincided with both artists' commercial decline. All but the final two songs were written partly by Troy Seals. Clean Shirt was the duo's least successful album, peaking at #28 on the country charts and barely making the Billboard 200 at #193; "If I Can Find a Clean Shirt" was the only charting single, reaching #51. According to Jennings, Epic executives were displeased about the prevalence of Mexican horns on the songs.[1]

Reception

Brian Mansfiel of AllMusic writes, "Small flashes of tossed-off brilliance appear in nearly every song, but sometimes it's hard to tell what's part of the pair's casual charm and what's just laziness: when the clever "Old Age and Treachery" (always overcome youth and skill) falls apart at the end, it's infuriating. Like much of either singer's output, Clean Shirt sounds a bit wrinkled at first, but most of the album holds up to repeated listening."

Track listing

  1. "If I Can Find a Clean Shirt" (Jennings, Troy Seals) – 3:25
  2. "I Could Write a Book About You" (Jennings, Seals, Nelson, Max D. Barnes) – 2:45
  3. "Old Age and Treachery" (Jennings, Seals, Nelson, Barnes) – 3:35
  4. "Two Old Sidewinders" (Hank Cochran, Barnes, Vern Gosdin) – 2:48
  5. "Tryin' to Outrun the Wind" (Seals, Eddie Setser, Tom Davey) – 3:27
  6. "Good Ol' Nights" (Jennings, Seals, Barnes) – 2:20
  7. "Guitars That Won't Stay in Tune" (Seals, Setser) – 1:55
  8. "The Makin's of a Song" (Jennings, Seals, Barnes, Nelson) – 2:50
  9. "Put Me on a Train Back to Texas" (Jim Hurt, Billy Nelson, Roy Clayborne) – 2:50
  10. "Rocks from Rolling Stones" (Tony Colton, Eddy Shaver) – 3:40

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (1991) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 28
U.S. Billboard 200 193

References

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    OCLC 34112889
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