Rainbow Connection
Studio album by Willie Nelson
Released	June 12, 2001
Studio	Pedernales Recording (Spicewood, Texas)
Genre	Country
Label	Island[1]
Producer	Matt Hubbard, Amy Nelson, David Zettner, Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson chronology
Milk Cow Blues (2000) Rainbow Connection (2001) The Great Divide (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Robert Christgau	A−[3]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Rainbow Connection is the 49th studio album bycountry singerWillie Nelson. It was recorded in December 2000 and January 2001 atWillie's ranch near Spicewood, Texas. Willie’s daughter Amy Nelson was just five years old when she first heard Kermit the Frog sing “Rainbow Connection” inThe Muppet Movie, and she spent the next twenty years trying to talk her dad into recording it. In 2001, he finally did, with Amy co-producing.

Rainbow Connection was nominated for the 44thGrammy Award forBest Country Album.

1. "Rainbow Connection" (Paul Williams,Kenneth Ascher) – 4:29^[5]
2. "I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" (Mort Dixon, Harry Woods) – 2:30
3. "Ol' Blue" (Traditional) – 2:36
4. "Wise Old Me" (Amy Nelson) – 4:14
5. "Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon" (Rex Griffin) – 1:28
6. "Playmate" (Henry W. Petrie) – 1:37
7. "I'm My Own Grandpa" (Dwight Latham, Moe Jaffe) – 3:19
8. "Rock Me to Sleep" (Tom Hunter) – 3:16
9. "Playin' Dominoes and Shootin' Dice" (Tex Woods, O.D. Dobbs) – 2:46
10. "Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way" (Willie Nelson) – 1:55
11. "Outskirts of Town" (Casey Bill Weldon) – 7:20
12. "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (Mickey Newbury) – 3:42
13. "The Thirty-Third of August" (Mickey Newbury)– 4:33

• Willie Nelson – Guitar, vocals
• Matt Hubbard – Harmonica, electric bass, bongos, keyboards, electric piano
• Amy Nelson – Vocals, background vocals, vocal harmony
• Lana Nelson – Vocals
• George Fowler – Background vocals
• Paula Nelson – Vocals
• Gabe Rhodes – Guitar
• David Zettner – Pedal steel, electric bass, guitar

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