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Heroes [sound recording] / Willie Nelson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: MusicMusicPublisher number: 88691960482 | LegacyPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Legacy, p2012.Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 6314664071
  • 9786314664077
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Contents:
A horse called Music (with Merle Haggard) -- Roll me up (with Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson, and Kris Kristofferson) -- That's all there is to this song -- No place to fly (with Lukas Nelson) -- Every time he drinks he thinks of her (with Lukas Nelson) -- Come on up to the house (with Sheryl Crow and Lukas Nelson) -- Hero (with Jamey Johnson and Billy Joe Shaver) -- My window faces the south (with Lukas Nelson) -- The sound of your memory (with Lukas Nelson) -- Cold war with you (with Ray Price and Lukas Nelson) -- Just breathe (with Lukas Nelson) -- Home in San Antone (with Lukas Nelson) -- Come on back Jesus (with Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson) -- The scientist.
Performed by Willie Nelson and the Roll Me Up Band; with additional musicians and vocalists.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult CD Adult CD Main Library CD COUNTRY Nelson, Willie Available 33111007396563
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Returning to the Columbia/Sony family after nearly two decades away, Willie Nelson once again tries to be everything to everybody on 2012's Heroes, an appealingly misshapen collection of classics, contemporaries, and originals. Heroes -- its title signifying no great concept -- is roughly divided into quarters, with part of the album devoted to the Western swing and Texas country he's always loved to sing, part consisting of new songs from Willie, part originals from his son Lukas, and part covers of newer, rock-oriented tunes from the likes of Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Martin. Each of these categories is a bit hit-or-miss, either succumbing to cutesy novelty (the dope-smoking anthem "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die," complete with country cadences from a non-rapping Snoop Dogg) or laziness, and there's a wee bit too much Lukas Nelson scattered throughout the record, with the son of the father singing on no less than nine of the album's 14 songs. This can be too much of a strong spice, obscuring the overall flavor of the music, but Lukas contributes a couple of the record's best songs in "Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her" and "The Sound of Your Memory," songs that fit well next to a quite beautiful version of Vedder's "Just Breathe" and yet another strong, swinging rendition of "My Window Faces the South." And so Heroes kind of winds up summarizing all that's good and bad about Willie as he approaches his 80th birthday: he's open to everything but has no innate editor, so he whiffs as often as he connects, but when he does connect, it's a wonder to behold...and somehow he can still surprise whenever he sings those old songs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Compact disc.

A horse called Music (with Merle Haggard) -- Roll me up (with Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson, and Kris Kristofferson) -- That's all there is to this song -- No place to fly (with Lukas Nelson) -- Every time he drinks he thinks of her (with Lukas Nelson) -- Come on up to the house (with Sheryl Crow and Lukas Nelson) -- Hero (with Jamey Johnson and Billy Joe Shaver) -- My window faces the south (with Lukas Nelson) -- The sound of your memory (with Lukas Nelson) -- Cold war with you (with Ray Price and Lukas Nelson) -- Just breathe (with Lukas Nelson) -- Home in San Antone (with Lukas Nelson) -- Come on back Jesus (with Lukas Nelson and Micah Nelson) -- The scientist.

Performed by Willie Nelson and the Roll Me Up Band; with additional musicians and vocalists.

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