Back in the day, Willie Nelson wrote devastatingly good songs for Ray Price, one of country's greatest barroom crooners. This is their second duet album, a short and bittersweet affair with western-swing music. One highlight is the cosmic country waltz "I've Just Destroyed the World I'm Living In," in which the singers take turns staring down some personal apocalypse, armed with a steel guitar.

“Too Close”

Next was formed in Minneapolis when the uncle of Terry "T-Low" and Raphael "Tweety" Brown, who was a gospel choir director, introduced the brothers to Robert Lavelle "R.L." Huggar. Sounds of Blackness singer Ann Nesby groomed the R&B group before handing them over to Naughty by Nature's KayGee, who wrote and produced "Too Close." The idea for the song was sparked "from a conversation we had with several girls at a nightclub," explained T-Low. "It's talking about the club scene, with guys getting out of hand and the female telling him to back up, asking, 'What are you doing?'"