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Artist | Willie Nelson
Title | Last Man Standing
Genre | Country Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 33:36
Label | Sony Music Store | 2018
Catalog | 19075827252 Rip | 2018
Bitrate | 229 kbps Size | 58.10 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Last Man Standing 3:00
02. Don't Tell Noah 2:28
03. Bad Breath 3:03
04. Me And You 2:49
05. Something You Get Through 3:53
06. Ready To Roar 2:35
07. Heaven Is Closed 3:16
08. I Ain't Got Nothin' 3:00
09. She Made My Day 2:43
10. I'll Try To Do Better Next Time 2:59
11. Very Far To Crawl 3:50
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As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in
post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the
mid-70s, Nelson spent the 60s writing songs that became hits for stars like
Ray Price ('Night Life'), Patsy Cline ('Crazy'), Faron Young ('Hello
Walls'), and Billy Walker ('Funny How Time Slips Away') as well as
releasing a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a small
but devoted cult following. During the early 70s, Willie aligned himself
with Waylon Jennings and the burgeoning outlaw country movement that made
him into a star in 1975.
Nelson started singing about the end of the line a while back but now that
he's in his mid-eighties, he's so accustomed to having death lurking around
the corner that he can kid about it. That's precisely what he does
throughout "Last Man Standing", an album that serves as a jocular
counterpart to its predecessor, "God's Problem Child". Nelson didn't avoid
humor on that record, but the vibe seemed haunted by a looming sense that
the clock is ticking away. Willie shakes off this spookiness on "Last Man
Standing", whose title track finds him singing that 'it's getting hard to
watch my pals check out' to a jaunty rhythm.
Ultimately, he decides he wants to be the last man standing, a sentiment
that's reiterated a few tracks later, when Willie looks into the mirror and
determines it's 'better to have bad breath than no breath at all'. Nelson
isn't seizing the day so much as shrugging off worries, and decides just to
have a good time. Despite being riddled with songs about death and aging,
"Last Man Standing" is ridiculously fun, thanks not just to Nelson's
jocularity - it's not just gallows humor, either; the swinging honky tonk
of "She Made My Day" is filled with sly one-liners - but to the nimbleness
of his band.
It's no secret that his bandmembers are pros, but it's still a pleasure to
hear them play - they're as compelling sliding into the shimmering jazz
overtones of "Something You Get Through" as they are kicking out the blues
of "I Ain't Got Nothin'" - and they give Nelson plenty of cover for working
with his weathered voice. No longer able to croon as he once did, Nelson
opts for playing around with the rhythms of his delivery, a move that makes
him seem limber, adding a sense of vitality to "Last Man Standing". Willie
realizes he's not going to be here forever but he's made up his mind to
make the most of his time here, and that's why "Last Man Standing" feels
richer than so many self-conscious meditations on mortality.
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