{"id":10470,"date":"2013-08-12T10:19:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10470"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:19:56","slug":"willie-nelson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/08\/willie-nelson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10471\" alt=\"Willie-Nelson-M-Review-No27\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Willie-Nelson-M-Review-No27.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Willie-Nelson-M-Review-No27.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Willie-Nelson-M-Review-No27-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>Willie Nelson<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Let\u2019s Face the Music and Dance<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Sony Legacy]<\/p>\n<p>For Willie Nelson, there\u2019s no better (legal) way to celebrate a birthday than to release a record. The latest addition to the octogenarian\u2019s 200-plus-album discography marks a return to the Great American Songbook, which served him so well on 1978\u2019s <i>Stardust<\/i>. Nelson\u2019s instantly recognizable, languorous vocals suit the material, giving a rough-hewn charm to standards like \u201cWalking My Baby Back Home,\u201d \u201cTwilight Time\u201d and \u201cMarie (The Dawn is Breaking).\u201d An underrated guitarist, Nelson showcases his chops on a pair of instrumentals: \u201cVous et Moi\u201d and Django Reinhardt\u2019s \u201cNuages.\u201d On \u201cIs the Better Part Over,\u201d the disc\u2019s lone original, Nelson reworks a tune he first recorded in 1989, trading heavy orchestration for a sparser arrangement. Elsewhere, he pays tribute to Western Swing with Spade Cooley\u2019s \u201cShame on You\u201d and flirts with rockabilly on Carl Perkins\u2019 \u201cMatchbox,\u201d which features his older sister Bobbie Nelson\u2019s boogying piano. By no means groundbreaking, the album has a timeless quality, and each listen feels like a reunion with an old friend. \u2013Juli Thanki<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson Let\u2019s Face the Music and Dance [Sony Legacy] For Willie Nelson, there\u2019s no better (legal) way to celebrate a birthday than to release a record. The latest addition to the octogenarian\u2019s 200-plus-album discography marks a return to the Great American Songbook, which served him so well on 1978\u2019s Stardust. Nelson\u2019s instantly recognizable, languorous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6875,2005],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10472,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10470\/revisions\/10472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}