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FULL NELSON Songbird is the best American ballad singer's best album in a good long while
Willie Nelson: Jim Herrington
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Release Date: Oct 31, 2006; Lead Performance: Willie Nelson; Genre: Country/Bluegrass
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America's greatest living ballad singer is notoriously inconsistent — just listen to last year's ghastly reggae experiment, Countryman. But Songbird, a collaboration with Ryan Adams (who produced and lent his backing band) is Willie Nelson's finest in a decade. The sound is burly, surrounding his inimitable lilt with shuddering electric guitars. But the slow and stately stuff really sparkles, such as a weirdly menacing cover of ''Amazing Grace'' and the new Nelson composition ''Back to Earth,'' which proves the old troubadour can still write the best weepers around.
Posted Oct 27, 2006
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