Our first Wax Mage Collab with Craft Recordings!
Country Music sees the legendary Willie Nelson interpret traditional country standards for an album The Washington Post hails “a calm, contemplative, and remarkably consistent album.” The 2010 GRAMMY®-nominated album features renditions of 14 country classics such as “Dark as a Dungeon,” and “Satisfied Mind,” along with a version of his 1959 single, “Man with the Blues.” This pressing is a 2-LP set. and is housed in a gatefold jacket.
/100 Limited Edition “Label Burst” Numbered Copies with Foil Stamped Wax Mage Collab J-Card OBI
“Golden Ticket” copies — Within the numbered 100 copies, there are /25 randomly placed Wax Mage Editions!
PRE-ORDER THIS LIMITED EDITION RELEASE HERE.
(The NON-Wax Mage Collab version of this record can be purchased from Craft Recordings directly, or from any independent record store worldwide).
THIS IS A PRE-SALE: Release date is Februrary 27, 2026.
(Please note: Variant photos are only artist renditions meant to represent the general look of the records – the exact colors and appearance of each copy will vary in an extremely random manner).
About Wax Mage Productions:
Wax Mage Productions (WMP) is a record label run by Heath Gmucs, Tyren Craemer, and the Gotta Groove Records. WMP is genre-agnostic, and releases both hand-picked new exclusive recordings as well as reissues. WMP seeks to push the limits of the phonograph record format from both an audio and visual perspective through three separate channels – Wax Mage Collabs, Wax Mage Exclusives, and Wax Mage Editions. Wax Mage Collabs are collaborative releases with another label/party, limited in quantity, handmade and unique in nature from the wide variants otherwise available. Wax Mage Exclusives are releases manufactured by Wax Mage and not available through any other label or source; sometimes new recordings and sometimes reissues; not necessarily limited quantities, but always with extreme handmade experimentation and design. Wax Mage Editions are the core of the Wax Mage brand – dating back to 2015, always limited to /25 copies worldwide, and manufactured exclusively by Wax Mage for third parties, or for WMP releases.
About Craft Recordings:
Craft Recordings is home to one of the largest and most storied collections of master recordings and compositions in the world. Craft’s repertoire includes iconic artists such as Joan Baez, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Vince Guaraldi, John Lee Hooker, Little Richard, Nine Inch Nails, Thelonious Monk, Otis Redding, R.E.M. and Traveling Wilburys, to name just a few. Renowned imprints with catalogs issued under the Craft banner include Concord Records, Fania, Fantasy, Fearless, Milestone, Musart, Nitro, Prestige, Riverside, Rounder, Specialty, Stax, Sugar Hill, Vanguard, Vee-Jay and Victory Records, among many others. Craft is the catalog label team for Concord Recorded Music.
About Gotta Groove Records:
Gotta Groove Records (GGR) is home to Wax Mage Productions, as well as being one of the highest regarded record pressing plants in the world, specializing in extreme color variants and audiophile sound quality pressings. GGR operates out of Cleveland, Ohio; making 7inch and 12inch records, as well as offering injection-molded PET “EcoRecords” as an alternative to traditional vinyl pressings. GGR also operates The Electromastering Lab, the record plating facility that makes stampers not only for GGR pressings, but for dozens of other pressing plants worldwide.
