Willie Nelson - Let's Face The Music and Dance (2013)

Let’s Face The Music And Dance features a selection of songs that are near and dear to Willie and are performed with his band “The Family”–the band Willie started with his sister Bobbie Nelson in 1973 that has been his touring and recording family for forty years. Like the man himself, this collection is not easily defined as a particular genre or style. It includes American standards and country classics, Irving Berlin and Carl Perkins, Django Reinhart as well as Willie-penned originals. Yet the result is a beautiful, cohesive set with songs about love and reflection in Willie’s inimitable style.
Let's Face The Music And Dance was recorded at Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin, Texas, produced by Buddy Cannon and mixed by Butch Carr at Budro Music Repair Shop in Nashville, Tennessee. Compiling the repertoire for Let's Face The Music And Dance, Willie chose a range of pop, rock, jazz and country classics drawn from the 1930s ("Let's Face the Music and Dance“, "Walking My Baby Back Home"), 1940s ("You'll Never Know”,"I Wish I Didn't Love You So“, "Shame On You") and 1950s ("Matchbox") covering evergreen songwriters Irving Berlin, Mack Gordon, Carl Perkins, Frank Loesser, Django Reinhardt and Spade Cooley, among others. Willie turns also provides a new version of his composition "Is The Better Part Over“, a song he introduced on 1989's A Horse Called Music.

TRACKLIST
01. Let’s Face the Music and Dance 3:23
02. Is the Better Part Over 2:39
03. You’ll Never Know 3:32
04. Vous Et Moi 3:23
05. Walking My Baby Back Home 3:52
06. Matchbox 2:40
07. Twilight Time 4:07
08. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 3:45
09. I’ll Keep on Loving You 3:38
10. I Wish I Didn’t Love You So 4:18
11. South of the Border 3:51
12. Nuages 3:37
13. Marie (The Dawn Is Breaking) 3:07
14. Shame on You 2:25