LET'S FACE THE MUSIC
| Willie Nelson
LET'S FACE THE MUSIC
Let's Face the Music and Dance is the sixty-first studio album by Americancountry singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Nelson's second album under his contract with Legacy Recordings, it was released on April 16, 2013. The album produced by Buddy Cannon featured a collection of standards that Nelson and his sister Bobbie played throughout their careers. -Wikipedia
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Taste of Country
This is an album for fans who admire country music as an art form. Nelson covers pop, jazz and rock songs from the past century -- most will be new to the younger generation -- and, along with the family band, puts a distinctive stamp on each.
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Telegraph UK
although much of the album saunters along, Nelson can still fill a song with emotion, as he shows on his own composition The Better Part of Me
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All About Jazz
Nelson's laconic, behind-the-beat singing is as informed as ever and his guitar playing has done nothing if not improved throughout his long career.
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All Music
While there's no denying Willie's voice sounds a little ragged -- scars of his 79 years are readily apparent -- it doesn't distract from the lazy, loping pleasures offered here, as the focus is not on the singing but the playing, how the Family is so familiar with their individual idiosyncrasies they sound like one seamless unit, easing from solo to solo, sometimes just enjoying their ragged, relaxed groove.
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Fox News
an unexpected collection that fans will think of as a gift from an extraordinary artist, still going strong after a six-decade career as America’s favorite country music outlaw
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Montreal Gazette
It’s what you expect, of course: soulful vocals by the red-headed stranger, his squirrelly nylon-string guitar solos all over the place and gently swinging support from a band that always knows where he wants to go, with sister Bobbie playing a prominent role on piano.
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Exclaim!
displays Nelson in his natural element: a small combo playing songs as timeless as his wonderfully idiosyncratic voice. For long-time Willie fans, it doesn't get much better.
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Paste Magazine
His voice dances around the meter gracefully and perhaps even mischievously, making deeply familiar songs sound utterly new again.
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Record Collector Magazine
As an exercise in showcasing the singer’s inimitably laconic way with a variety of styles it’s a real winner.
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Lone Star Music Magazine
not only worthy of top-shelf placement next to Nelson’s other genuine keepers, it serves as a welcome reminder that, in the year he hits the big 8-0, Willie is still worth paying attention to.
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Saving Country Music
Where Willie’s Heroes showed surprising freshness and relevancy, Let’s Face The Music And Dance shows just how powerful Willie’s voice and guitar have become, and how served nearly naked, they can still more than carry an album, they can make it something special.
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Blog Critics
Nelson is, of course, country, but he also defies genre. Here, he handles Latin-influenced pop, Tin Pan Alley ballads, jazz, and country blues with equal ease. He never strains, nor does the band. Everything works together smoothly, with style and class.
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Lincoln Journal Star
Nelson’s voice remains supple and expressive, sounding like a much-younger man, and there's no better band than Family. That makes “Let’s Face the Music and Dance” another very satisfying record from a true American treasure.
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My Kind of Country
This is a fine record from a man it would be no exaggeration to call a living legend.
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Jazz Times
Nelson himself has made several return visits to Tin Pan Alley, but none are quite as enjoyable as this crazy-quilt pastiche of pop, country and jazz tunes
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That Music Magazine
If you expected a twangy, whiskey-laden album of country music this time around, you would be surprised to hear that Willie Nelson’s newest album, recorded in Austin, Texas with his Family band, is a hard-to-categorize collection of classic pop, jazz, rock and country standards that is a must for any fan of the Red Headed Stranger.
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Blurt Online
As Nelson’s vocal phrasing and Trigger picking have gotten ever more jazzy over the last decade, he sounds more at home and natural on these songs than on the country music for which he’s most celebrated
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Lonestar Music Magazine
he sounds thoroughly engaged here, embracing the songs’ emotional nuances and deftly navigating their melodic challenges
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Robert Christgau
Not his dance album, silly, this is Willie Nelson--just one of his after-80-you-get-to-sing-whatever-you-want albums
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Pop Matters
And the album does find these players in good, fighting shape, at least musically speaking. Willie’s voice is clear, his phrasing sharp, Bobbie’s piano carries most of the tunes, and Mickey’s harmonica remains a singular marvel.
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