To All the Girls...

The album consists of a collection of duets featuring Nelson along with a variety of female singers, including prominent country singers (Dolly Parton, Miranda Lambert, Loretta Lynn, Carrie Underwood, Rosanne Cash, Wynonna Judd), Americana and alternative country singers (The Secret Sisters, Brandi Carlile, Alison Krauss, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris), prominent singers mostly associated with other genres (Sheryl Crow, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones), singers mostly known for being the daughters of country artists (Melonie Cannon, daughter of Buddy Cannon; Tina Rose, daughter of Leon Russell; and Nelson's own daughter Paula Nelson), and Nelson protégée Lily Meola.

The album was released on October 15, 2013 on Legacy Recordings.{{cite news|url=http://tasteofcountry.com/willie-nelson-to-all-the-girls-album-collaborations/|title=Carrie Underwood, Loretta Lynn + More Duet With Willie Nelson on Upcoming 'To All the Girls' Album|first=Christina|last=Vinson|work=Taste of Country|publisher=Townsquare Media, LLC|date=July 26, 2013|access-date=July 29, 2013}}

The first single "From Here to the Moon and Back", a duet with Dolly Parton that she wrote for the 2012 movie Joyful Noise, was released on August 2, 2013.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/willie-nelson-dolly-parton-go-from-here-to-the-moon-song-premiere-20130802|title=Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton Shoot for 'The Moon' – Song Premiere|author=Blistein, Jon|magazine=Rolling Stone|publisher=Wenner Media, LLC.|date=August 2, 2013|access-date=August 7, 2013}} (The song also appeared on Parton's concurrent album Blue Smoke.) It was followed by the release of the single "Grandma's Hands", with Mavis Staples, on August 6.{{cite news|url=https://www.avclub.com/listen-to-willie-nelson-and-mavis-staples-duet-on-gran-1798239776|title=Listen to Willie Nelson and Mavis Staples duet on "Grandma's Hands"|author=Eakin, Marah|work=The A.V. Club|publisher=Onion Inc.|date=August 6, 2013|access-date=August 8, 2013}} "It Won't Be Long", featuring the Secret Sisters was released on September 24;{{cite news|url=https://www.spin.com/2013/09/willie-nelson-secret-sisters-it-wont-be-very-long-video-stream/|title=Willie Nelson and the Secret Sisters Approach Transcendence on 'It Won't Be Long'|author=Martins, Chris|work=Spin|publisher=SpinMedia, Inc.|date=September 24, 2013|access-date=October 2, 2013}} while "Somewhere Between" with Loretta Lynn was released on October 1.{{cite news|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1714821/cmt-exclusive-song-premiere-willie-nelson-and-loretta-lynns-somewhere-between.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005061451/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1714821/cmt-exclusive-song-premiere-willie-nelson-and-loretta-lynns-somewhere-between.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 5, 2013|title=CMT Exclusive Song Premiere: Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn's "Somewhere Between"|author=Parton, Chris|date=October 1, 2013|access-date=October 2, 2013|work=CMT.com|publisher=Country Music Television, Inc.}}

Upon its full release, on October 15, 2013;{{cite news|last=Shelburne|first=Craig|title=Willie Nelson's Duets Album Arriving Oct. 15|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1713623/willie-nelsons-duets-album-arriving-oct-15.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909022157/http://www.cmt.com/news/country-music/1713623/willie-nelsons-duets-album-arriving-oct-15.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2013|access-date=September 10, 2013|newspaper=Country Music Television|date=September 6, 2013}} the album entered Billboard's Top Country Albums at number two. It marked Nelson's highest position on the chart since the release of his 1989 album A Horse Called Music, and it extended his record to a total of 46 top ten albums on the country charts. Nelson scored as well his second top ten album on the Billboard 200, with the release entering at number nine.{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/5770374/willie-nelson-extends-record-for-most-top-10-country-albums|author=Jessen, Wade|title=Willie Nelson Extends Record For Most Top 10 Country Albums|date=October 24, 2013|access-date=October 24, 2013|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Nielsen Business Media}}

{{Music ratings

| MC = (72/100)

|rev1 = Seattle Post-Intelligencer

|rev1score = Favorable

|rev2 = The Telegraph

|rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}

|rev3 = Allmusic

|rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}

|rev4= Rolling Stone

|rev4score= {{Rating|3|5}}

|rev5= Record Collector

|rev5score= {{Rating|4|5}}

|rev6 = Associated Press

|rev6score = Mixed.

|rev7 = Roughstock

|rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}

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The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the release "a wonderful album" composed by "great material", performed with "style and grace".{{cite news|url=http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Music-Review-Willie-Nelson-To-All-the-Girls-4838219.php#page-1|author=Marcus, Richard|title=Music Review: Willie Nelson - 'To All the Girls'|date=September 23, 2013|work=The Telegraph|publisher=Hearst Corporation|access-date=October 10, 2013}} The Telegraph rated it with four stars out of five, qualifying the diversity of music genres contained on the recordings as "impressive". The review described Nelson's guitar playing "sweet and distinctive as ever", and remarked that his voice was "holding up well".{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/cdreviews/10359958/Willie-Nelson-To-All-The-Girls-album-review.html|author=Chilton, Martin|title=Willie Nelson, To All The Girls, album review|work=The Telegraph|publisher=Telegraph Media Group Limited|date=October 7, 2013|access-date=October 11, 2013}} Allmusic delivered a favorable review, rating the album with three-and-a-half stars out of five. The website defined the tracks as "assured, easy, impeccably tasteful work from (Nelson) and his partners", but stated that the seventy-minute length "make(s) the album feel a little samey".{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-all-the-girls-mw0002573622|author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas|title=To All the Girls... - Willie Nelson|work=Allmusic|publisher=Rovi Corporation|access-date=October 11, 2013}}

Rolling Stone offered a mixed review, rating the album with three stars out of five. The review noted that "several of the pairings [...] lament unions that couldn't work", while it remarked that Nelson "holds his unmistakable own throughout".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/to-all-the-girls-20131018#ixzz2iBDJQ4ip|title=Willie Nelson, 'To All the Girls" Album Review|author=Eddy, Chuck|magazine=Rolling Stone|publisher=Wenner Media LLC.|date=October 18, 2013|access-date=October 29, 2013}} Record Collector rated the release with four stars, calling it a "fine addition" to Nelson's collection of duets.{{cite news|url=http://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/to-all-the-girls|title=Honky Tonk Women|author=Staunton, Terry|issue=420|work=Record Collector|publisher=Diamond Publishing Ltd|access-date=October 29, 2013}} Associated Press felt that the duets were

"custom-made for the download age", alleging that Nelson's usual audience would not "connect with all 16 songs", calling the set "too eclectic and too inconsistent". It also remarked that "plenty of gold nuggets shine through for those willing to pick through the miscues and throwaways".{{cite news|agency=Associated Press|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/music-review-willie-nelsons-new-to-all-the-girls---an-uneven-mix-of-hits-and-misses/2013/10/21/86535fe4-3a72-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131030094744/http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/music-review-willie-nelsons-new-to-all-the-girls---an-uneven-mix-of-hits-and-misses/2013/10/21/86535fe4-3a72-11e3-b0e7-716179a2c2c7_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 30, 2013|date=October 21, 2013|access-date=October 29, 2013|title=Music Review: Willie Nelson's new 'To All the Girls ... ' an uneven mix of hits and misses}} Roughstock rated it with four stars and called the album "a delight" with "18 tracks of fantastic duets".{{cite news|url=http://www.roughstock.com/reviews/album-review-willie-nelson-to-all-the-girls|title=Album Review: Willie Nelson - To All The Girls|author=Bjorke, Matt|date=October 16, 2013|access-date=October 29, 2013|work=Roughstock|publisher=Cheri Media Group}} The review aggregator website Metacritic gave the album a Metascore of 72/100, based on six reviews.{{cite news|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/to-all-the-girls/willie-nelson|title=To All the Girls... Review|work=Metacritic|publisher=CBS Interactive Inc|access-date=October 29, 2013}}

{{Track listing

| extra_column = Duet partner

| total_length = 1:05:55

| title1 = From Here to the Moon and Back

| writer1 = Dolly Parton

| extra1 = Dolly Parton

| length1 = 4:01

| title2 = She Was No Good for Me

| writer2 = Waylon Jennings

| extra2 = Miranda Lambert

| length2 = 3:47

| title3 = It Won't Be Very Long

| writer3 = Willie Nelson; Buddy Cannon

| extra3 = The Secret Sisters

| length3 = 2:36

| title4 = Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends

| writer4 = Kris Kristofferson

| extra4 = Rosanne Cash

| length4 = 4:18

| title5 = Far Away Places

| writer5 = Joan Whitney; Alex Kramer

| extra5 = Sheryl Crow

| length5 = 4:56

| title6 = Bloody Mary Morning

| writer6 = Willie Nelson

| extra6 = Wynonna Judd

| length6 = 3:05

| title7 = Always on My Mind

| writer7 = Wayne Carson; Johnny Christopher; Mark James

| extra7 = Carrie Underwood

| length7 = 3:55

| title8 = Somewhere Between

| writer8 = Merle Haggard

| extra8 = Loretta Lynn

| length8 = 3:13

| title9 = No Mas Amor

| writer9 = Keith Gattis; Sammy Barrett

| extra9 = Alison Krauss

| length9 = 4:12

| title10 = Back To Earth

| writer10 = Willie Nelson

| extra10 = Melonie Cannon

| length10 = 3:30

| title11 = Grandma's Hands

| writer11 = Bill Withers

| extra11 = Mavis Staples

| length11 = 3:10

| title12 = Walkin'

| writer12 = Willie Nelson

| extra12 = Norah Jones

| length12 = 3:39

| title13 = 'Til The End of the World

| writer13 = Vaughn Horton

| extra13 = Shelby Lynne

| length13 = 2:01

| title14 = Will You Remember Mine

| writer14 = Willie Nelson

| extra14 = Lily Meola

| length14 = 4:34

| title15 = Dry Lightning

| writer15 = Bruce Springsteen

| extra15 = Emmylou Harris

| length15 = 4:21

| title16 = Making Believe

| writer16 = Jimmy Work

| extra16 = Brandi Carlile

| length16 = 3:16

| title17 = Have You Ever Seen the Rain

| writer17 = John Fogerty

| extra17 = Paula Nelson

| length17 = 4:38

| title18 = After the Fire Is Gone

| writer18 = L. E. White

| extra18 = Tina Rose

| length18 = 2:43

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• Wayne Benson – mandolin
• Jim "Moose" Brown – Hammond B-3 organ, percussion, piano, Wurlitzer
• Buddy Cannon – acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Melonie Cannon – duet vocals on "Back To Earth"
• Brandi Carlile – duet vocals on "Making Believe"
• Rosanne Cash – duet vocals on "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends"
• Chad Cromwell – drums
• Dennis Crouch – upright bass
• Sheryl Crow – duet vocals on "Far Away Places"
• Fred Eltringham – drums
• Keith Gattis – electric guitar, gut string guitar
• Steve Gibson – electric guitar
• Kevin "Swine" Grantt – upright bass

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• Emmylou Harris – duet vocals on "Dry Lightning"
• Steve Herrmann – trumpet
• John Hobbs – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, string arrangements
• Mike Johnson – steel guitar
• Norah Jones – piano and duet vocals on "Walkin'"
• Wynonna Judd – duet vocals on "Bloody Mary Morning"
• Alison Krauss – duet vocals on "No Mas Amor"
• Miranda Lambert – duet vocals on "She Was No Good for Me"
• Loretta Lynn – duet vocals on "Somewhere Between"
• Shelby Lynne – duet vocals on "'Til the End of the World"
• Lily Meola – duet vocals on "Will You Remember Mine"
• The Nashville String Machine – strings
• Lukas Nelson – background vocals
• Paula Nelson – duet vocals on "Have You Ever Seen the Rain"

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• Willie Nelson – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
• Dolly Parton – duet vocals on "From Here to the Moon and Back"
• Mickey Raphael – bass harmonica, echo harp, harmonica
• Lyndel Rhodes – harmonica
• Laura Rogers – vocals on "It Won't Be Very Long"
• Lydia Rogers – vocals on "It Won't Be Very Long"
• Tina Rose – duet vocals on "After the Fire Is Gone"
• John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
• Mavis Staples – duet vocals on "Grandma's Hands"
• Bobby Terry – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut string guitar
• Dan Tyminski – acoustic guitar, mandolin, background vocals
• Carrie Underwood – duet vocals on "Always on My Mind"
• Tommy White – steel guitar
• Kris Wilkinson – string contractor
• Lonnie Wilson – drums
• Bobby Wood – synthesizer

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The week of its release, the album entered Billboard's Top Country Albums chart at number two, marking Nelson's highest position on the chart since 1989, as well as his second top ten album on the Billboard 200, entering at number nine. It is Nelson's 46th top ten debut, the most of any country singers on that chart. It sold 43,000 in its first week.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/5770374/willie-nelson-extends-record-for-most-top-10-country-albums |title=Willie Nelson Extends Record For Most Top 10 Country Albums|author= Wade Jessen |date= October 24, 2013 |magazine=Billboard }} As of January 2014, the album has sold 114,000 copies in the US.{{cite news |url=http://www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-the-week-of-january-29-2013-jennifer-nettles-stays-1-kacey-musgraves-taylor-swift-return-to-top-10 |title=Country Album Chart News: The Week of January 29, 2013: Jennifer Nettles Stays #1; Kacey Musgraves, Taylor Swift Return To Top 10 |author=Matt Bjorke |work=Roughstock |date=January 29, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203210701/http://www.roughstock.com/blog/country-album-chart-news-the-week-of-january-29-2013-jennifer-nettles-stays-1-kacey-musgraves-taylor-swift-return-to-top-10 |archive-date=February 3, 2014 }}

In the UK, the album debuted at No. 72 on the album chart, selling 1,452 copies for the week.{{cite web |url=http://countryroutesnews.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/country-bites-news-snippets-june-16.html |title= Country Bites News snippets June 16 - June 22, 2014 |date= July 1, 2014 |work=Country Routes News Blog }}

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