HEROES
| Willie Nelson
HEROES
Heroes is the sixtieth studio album by American country music singer Willie Nelson, released by Legacy Recordings on May 15, 2012. Produced by Buddy Cannon, the album contains classic country songs, new songs written by Nelson and his son Lukas, and the classic song from Nelson's repertoire, "A Horse Called Music". -Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2012 - On his millionth album, give or take, Willie Nelson is his usual self: loping through a set of well-chosen originals and unlikely covers (Coldplay’s “The Scientist”!?) with casual virtuosity.
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Taste of Country
2012 - a artistically satisfying album full of colorful lyrics and patient, skilled musicianship
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Consequence of Sound
2012 - While Heroes adds some essential songs to his canon and certainly doesn’t diminish his legacy, it ultimately lacks enough of what makes Willie Nelson albums so enjoyable: Willie Nelson himself.
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Telegraph UK
2012 - The playing is lovely, lilting and delicate.
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Goldmine Magazine
Nelson sounds alternately relaxed with and energized by his fellow musicians, making this a warm and welcoming record.
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BBC
Simple virtues and matchless instinct from a legend at 79.
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All Music
Heroes kind of winds up summarizing all that's good and bad about Willie as he approaches his 80th birthday
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Roughstock
2012 - Nope, our hero doesn’t let us down at all this time.
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Slant Magazine
2012 - Sadly, there just isn’t enough Willie on Heroes to make the album a success or a failure that’s definitively his own.
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NME
He excellently lends Coldplay’s ‘The Scientist’ a terse fragility, but less successful is a sanitised, Sheryl Crow-featuring version of Tom Waits’ ‘Come On Up To The House’. More diverting is his own track, ‘Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die’ – starring fellow chronic fanboys Snoop Dogg and Kris Kristofferson.
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American Songwriter
When Willie’s son Lukas takes a turn at songwriting, however, the record is at its strongest, with highlights like “Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her” and “No Place to Fly” showcasing a winning earnestness, and an affecting second voice whose gentle warble could only come from the same bloodline.
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Independent
2012 - the best thing here is opener “A Horse Called Music”, where wistful accordion and lachrymose pedal steel accompany Willie's duet with Merle Haggard, another Mount Rushmore voice.
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Music OMH
2012 - For sure his fans will not be disappointed. Nelson’s voice is the shining star on this album, and that feels like the only thing that matters.
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Aaron Davis Music
2012 - This is easily one of Willie’s finest “contemporary” efforts, and at 79 years young, this is truly an amazing feat.
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KEAN 105.1FM
2012 - this is a country music masterpiece
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Lincoln Journal Star
2012 - It’s a record of a master in full command, who can and does whatever he wants -- and it always works.
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Saving Country Music
2012 - This album is good both because it is Willie, and because it is good.
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