Nelson Willie & Family - Let's Face the Music and Dance
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Article name: Let's Face the Music and DanceGenre: Country Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: MUSIC ON VINYL Number of tracks: 14
Tracklist LP - 1
Nelson, Willie & Family - Let's Face The Music And Dance Nelson, Willie & Family - Is The Better Part Over Nelson, Willie & Family - You'll Never Know Nelson, Willie & Family - Vous Et Moi Nelson, Willie & Family - Walking My Baby Back Home Nelson, Willie & Family - Matchbox Nelson, Willie & Family - Twilight Time Nelson, Willie & Family - I Can't Give You Anything But Love Nelson, Willie & Family - I'll Keep On Loving You Nelson, Willie & Family - I Wish I Didn't Love You So Nelson, Willie & Family - South Of The Border Nelson, Willie & Family - Nuages Nelson, Willie & Family - Marie (The Dawn Is Breaking) Nelson, Willie & Family - Shame On YouDescription
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Once again repeating a pattern that's quite familiar from over the past two decades, Willie Nelson follows up his star-studded 2012 Legacy duet with Let's Face the Music and Dance, an intimate record of standards recorded with his longtime backing band, the Family. Apart from Willie's son Micah, there are no guests here -- just his sister Bobbie on piano, drummer Paul English, Mickey Raphael on harmonica, Kevin Smith on bass, Jim "Moose" Brown on organ, and Billy English batting cleanup on guitar and drum -- and the album sounds as if it were cut in the living room late one night, the bandmembers easing into songs they've always loved but never played. This may include Willie's original "Is the Better Part Over," a neglected tune from the late '80s, but the emphasis is on standards from the Great American Songbook, punctuated by a bit of Western swing and rockabilly (the latter arriving via a cover of Carl Perkins' "Matchbox"). While there's no denying Willie's voice sounds a little ragged -- scars of his 79 years are readily apparent -- it doesn't distract from the lazy, loping pleasures offered here, as the focus is not on the singing but the playing, how the Family is so familiar with their individual idiosyncrasies they sound like one seamless unit, easing from solo to solo, sometimes just enjoying their ragged, relaxed groove. So, there are no surprises on Let's Face the Music and Dance but there don't need to be: it is, as always, a pleasure to hear Willie & the Family play the music they love best. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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- Artist: Nelson Willie & Family
- Artist: Willie Nelson
- Record Label: Music on Vinyl
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