Willie Nelson Preps Harlan Howard Tribute Album & Shares ‘Busted’ Cover

With over 150 albums to his credit, outlaw country icon Willie Nelson has recorded several full-album tributes to acclaimed songwriters such as Kris Kristofferson, George Gershwin, Ray Price and Cindy Walker. On March 3, the 89-year-old Nelson will release an album of songs written by Harlan Howard, I Don’t Know A Thing About Love, featuring the lead single “Busted.”

Harlan Howard is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Howard, who died in 2002 at age 74, wrote countless hit songs for a variety of country and R&B artists including Ray Charles (“Busted”), Buck Owens (“I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail”), Conway Twitty (“I Don’t Know A Thing About Love”), Bobby Bare (“The Streets Of Baltimore”) and more.

Nelson recorded the 10-track tribute album with his longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon and a “murderers’ row of crack Nashville musicians.” Listen to Willie Nelson’s cover of Harlan Howard’s “Busted” below:

I Don’t Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard Tracklist

1. Tiger By The Tail
2. The Chokin’ Kind
3. Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache)
4. Life Turned Her That Way
5. I Don’t Know A Thing About Love
6. Streets Of Baltimore
7. Busted
8. She Called Me Baby
9. Too Many Rivers
10. Beautiful Annabel Lee