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THE ODD COUPLE: WILLIE NELSON, WYNTON MARSALIS
07/26/2008
The left-of-center pairing of Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis finds the country and jazz icons cooking up some sweet music—as well as notching career milestones on their respective belts.
Debuting at No. 20 on the Billboard 200, "Two Men With the Blues" (Blue Note) represents Nelson's highest-charting album of the Nielsen SoundScan era and Marsalis' best-charting album of his career (see Over the Counter, page 61).
"The unlikely concept of them together might not click right away," says Perry Greenfield, the album's product manager at Blue Note.
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