Willie Nelson

It's difficult to get a handle on Willie Nelson's new album. From its title to its celestial cover
to the medley which concludes the record, it seems arbitrary, confused and just a little bit
spacey. In certain ways it is no great departure from his pathbreaking work of the last few
years. It is not a thematically unified album, like Phases and Stages and Red Headed
Stranger, but then I am not sure if that approach has ever altogether worked ex... More >

"That Lucky Old Sun" sounds better than "Amazing Grace"; Steve Fromholz's "I'd Have to Be Crazy" sounds better than Willie's "The Sound in Your Mind." Willie had better watch it--Major Artists can't grind out Product the way Country Music Stars do or people'll start thinkin' they're slippin'. (Grade: B-)