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Willie Nelson, That s Life (Legacy). Closing in on 90 he’ll turn 88 in two months Austin’s greatest musical icon has hit upon a couple of deep grooves lately. Albums largely addressing Nelson’s encroaching mortality head-on (including 2018’s “Last Man Standing” and 2019’s “Ride Me Back Home”) have shared space with tributes to some of his greatest influences.
Four of the nine albums he’s released in the past five years have revisited songs either written or immortalized by fellow 20th-century masters Frank Sinatra, Ray Price and George & Ira Gershwin. You could call that a formula, but if so, it’s a formula that has resonated with his followers. Two of the three tributes preceding this one won Grammys, including 2018’s “My Way,” Nelson’s first salute to the songs of Sinatra and clearly a