Willie Nelson, who is 91, will release “Last Leaf on the Tree' on Friday, his second studio album this year. It's also his 76th solo studio album and 153rd album overall. Asked how many more he has in him, and he laughs and says he doesn't know, but he hopes 'there’s a few more.
Music ian Willie Nelson performing ahead of event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Houston, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024. This cover image released by Sony Music shows “Last Leaf On the Tree” by Willie Nelson . Music ian Willie Nelson performing ahead of event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris at a rally in Houston, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.
Micah Nelson’s artistic, alternative-rock sensibilities are present on the record, not only in its cover song selection by also in his delivery. For a cover of Young’s “Are You Ready for the Country,” for example, he used sticks and leaves for the percussion instead of traditional instrumentation. “I didn’t notice anything different,” Nelson laughs.
In a few ways, Nelson is the last of the Outlaw Country era — though he’s always experimented across genre and style. The title “Last Leaf on the Tree,” taken from a cover of Waits’ “Last Leaf,” resonates, in a way, when he considers his contemporaries. “If you just take the music part of it and go back to, you know, Waylon and Kris andand, you know, all of us working together, the Highwaymen. And then I am the only one left. And that’s just not funny.
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