“Overturning customary ideas about older artists slowing down, Nelson – now 86 – has been in prodigious form over the past decade, pumping out a dozen albums of assorted duets, originals, covers and tributes. Nine months after My Way, his homage to Sinatra, comes this final instalment in a trilogy (with 2017’s God’s Problem Child and 2018’s Last Man Standing) in which mortality looms large. In con”
“Old age suits the country singer well. On his latest album—featuring three newly penned tunes—Willie sings with a kind of chagrinned humor, as if nobody is more surprised by his longevity than he is.”
“Willie Nelson’s story is one of country music’s most genuinely delightful. While Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, Hank Williams and other big names from the OG yeehaw scene lived lives filled with tragedy and addiction, the perma-chilled Willie has spent the past 86 years with a beatific smile on his face. And that’s not just because he’s been pleasantly stoned on homegrown ganja since the early 1970s.”
