Willie Nelson is including one other report to his 150+ album discography.

On Thursday, Aug. 15, the legendary nation star introduced his newest album, Final Leaf on the Tree, which can be launched on Nov. 1.

The upcoming album will grow to be Nelson’s 76th solo studio album and his 153rd album total.

But it surely additionally marks the primary time his son, Micah, 34, can be producing for Nelson, 91. Micah has beforehand carried out together with his father, and joined him on the family-oriented albums: Willie and the Boys (2017) and The Willie Nelson Household (2021).

Nelson dropped the album’s first highlight observe on Thursday, Aug. 15. He carried out his rendition of Tom Waits’ “Final Leaf.”

The one was first launched in 2011 on Unhealthy as Me, in collaboration with Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards. However in his newest rendition of “Final Leaf,” Nelson sings solo, and he additionally performs Waits’ “ “Home The place No person Lives” on Final Leaf on the Tree.

He’ll even be performing folks singer Sydney Lyndella Ward, a.ok.a. Sunny Warfare’s “If It Wasn’t Damaged.” Ward shared within the press launch that Nelson’s cowl “is the sweetest and biggest factor that’s ever occurred to [her] as author and musician.” She added, “I used to play that tune on the Venice Seaside boardwalk and would have by no means imagined again then that Willie Nelson would ever even hear it.” (The album was additionally recorded in Venice, Calif., at Micah’s recording studio, the Hen Home.)

In the meantime, visitor musicians on the upcoming album embody Raphael Lanois on pedal metal, and former Doorways drummer John Densmore and Magatte Sow on percussion.

On the 13-track album, Nelson wrote two songs, “The Ghost” and “Shade of Sound,” the latter he wrote with Micah. A 3rd tune, “Wheels,” was additionally written by Micah.

Micah shared within the press launch that he and his father approached the 91-year-old’s “finality of life in recent times” within the new album. “There are little side-quests,” Micah mentioned, “however that grew to become the through-line — dealing with loss of life with grace.”

The album can be obtainable digitally, on CD and LP vinyl — together with an unique model with a limited-edition lithograph — all can be found for pre-order right here. 

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Final Leaf on the Tree can be launched on Nov. 1