Willie Nelson “faces demise with grace” on new his album ‘Final Leaf on the Tree’.
Willie Nelson is releasing his new album in November
The 91-year-old musician is making ready to launch his 76th solo report in November and his 34-year-old son Micah Nelson – who produced the album – has revealed the undertaking embraced Willie’s capability to handle the “finality of life in recent times”.
Micah defined: “There are little side-quests, however that turned the through-line – going through demise with grace.”
Micah beforehand labored together with his dad on household albums ‘Willie and the Boys’ in 2017 and 2021’s ‘The Willie Nelson Household’ however that is the primary time he has produced considered one of his dad’s information.
The album’s first single is a canopy of Tom Waits’ ‘Final Leaf’ which Willie beforehand recorded as a collaboration with Rolling Stones star Keith Richards again in 2011.
‘Final Leaf on the Tree’ boasts one other Waits tune – ‘Home The place No one Lives’ – in addition to covers of tracks by the Flaming Lips, Beck and Neil Younger.
The album additionally options ‘Wheels’ which was written by Micah and ‘Shade of Sound’ which father and son wrote collectively.
Micah added he took a “sculptor’s strategy” to producing the album, including: “It’s an strategy that I actually love and have used lots through the years – simply throwing the clay down and stepping again, then perhaps including a bit extra, after which perhaps shaving down right here, and type of constructing the tracks that means.”
He additionally defined he performed greater than 20 completely different devices whereas recording the album and even produced sounds utilizing extra uncommon strategies akin to performing with “sticks and branches, logs and useless leaves”.
‘Final Leaf’ was launched on August 15 and ‘Final Leaf on the Tree’ will land on November 1.