Coming up on his calendar are a number of tour dates in June and July including the Outlaw Music Festival and Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in Austin.Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson who with "GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD" released his best album in almost two decades, not counting his collaboration albums with Ray Price, Kimmie Rhodes, and Wynton Marsalis. When he’s not in the studio, Nelon’s on the road and performed more than 100 live shows in the past year. These include “Still Not Dead,” which pokes fun at the many exaggerated reports of his demise he’s heard over the years, and the album’s closer, “He Won’t Ever Be Gone,” a song written by Gary Nicholson which pays tribute to Nelson’s outlaw country comrade, Merle Haggard.Īn album that reflects on mortality while marveling at the beauty and absurdity of it all, God’s Problem Child finds Willie Nelson at one of the creative peaks of his career, writing and singing with the seasoned wit and wisdom that can only come from the kind of life he’s living. Nelson has lensed several music videos for songs from God’s Problem Child. It’s the kind of perspective that most songwriters can only dream of attaining-for Willie Nelson, it’s just another day at the office.” approaching life and love from angles that can only result from a career spent studying both with a restless sense of wonder. Thank God.”Īppreciation is shared across the Atlantic where the UK’s Uncut praised the new song “Still Not Dead” as “one of Willie’s modern masterpieces” and God’s Problem Child as “an album that can stand comfortably alongside any of his iconic work….
It’s been a wild ride and it sure as hell ain’t over yet.
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“The key,” opined the Austin American-Statesman, “is a near perfect balance between Willie as songwriter and as interpreter.” Wide Open Country summed up, saying, “ God’s Problem Child is a peek into the next chapter in the book of Willie, a promise that he’s not even close to being done and another helpful guide on how to live. “….one of pop culture’s few reigning icons who remain creatively engaged,” noted Paste who wrote that God’s Problem Child “…feels like Nelson’s personal state of the union….as vital as anything he’s done.” Rolling Stone called God’s Problem Child “…a tightly-woven, poignant collection of ruminations on aging and fading faculties that amounts to Nelson’s most moving album in decades.” The Los Angeles Times concurred praising “…the most bountiful batch of Nelson songs since 2014’s Band of Brothers.” God’s Problem Child is being lauded in both the mainstream and underground press as an essential addition to the Willie Nelson catalog with The Wall Street Journal naming it one of “This Spring’s Best Country Albums.” That album debuted at #1 on both the Top Current Jazz chart and the Top Traditional Jazz chart following its release in February 2016.
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