Twee album cover; wonderfully reflective content.
Mainly a covers album, Nelson adds not
just his signature sound but a history that imbues all with depths of
experience and understanding.
The album title opener is as plaintive as a wailing
harmonica can be in accompanying emotive pedal steel. That Nelson covers the
Chris Stapleton penned Our Song is a
superb reverse tribute, and Willie’s lifetime ‘with living’ adds its own
colossal narrative. The closer cover of Yesterday
When I was Young says it all.
This isn’t maudlin and has an accepting lament inherent in
the reflection on aging and change, as in the Nelson/Cannon penned second track
Blue Star where ‘the same old me and
you’ asserts what does remain constant in this process.
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