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When Willie Nelson and producer Daniel Lanois set out to create a cinematic-sounding album, they took over a disused movie theatre in Oxnard, CA, and pictured its dusty glory on the LP sleeve. Recorded as-live in situ amid the red velvet seats, Teatro sees Nelson working extensively with his frequent collaborator Emmylou Harris, who joins him on 11 of the 14 tracks.
The other major player is collaborator Daniel Lanois (producer of Bob Dylan's Time Out of Mind, Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball), who produced the album, and plays guitar and bass. Reinvention is key on Teatro, with Nelson revisiting a number of songs he first wrote in the 1960s.
Though the songs are familiar, the sounds aren't: Teatro found Nelson conjuring an atmosphere informed by the howling harmonicas and distant mariachi bands of spaghetti western soundtracks, the end result being a Willie Nelson album quite unlike any other in his career.