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Jul 2, 2014This is a brilliant album. Not a brilliant album after almost 100 other albums, not a brilliant album for a man who has been working for twice as long as I have been alive, but the best country album of the year, and perhaps the best album this year.
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Jul 10, 2014Band of Brothers belongs solely to Willie Nelson. This is the sound of rust being ground out, cylinders squeaking back to life, engines and carburetors opening wide on the road again.
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MagnetJul 18, 2014Nelson and co-composer Buddy Cannon work magic on cocky self-assurance mixed with self-deprecation and the glory of womanhood in a manner befitting this wordsmith's living-legend status. [No. 101, p.56]
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MojoJul 2, 2014Add winners selected from the songbooks of Billy Joe Shaver, Vince Gill and Bill Anderson and you have the best Willie package since he signed with Legacy. [Aug 2014, p.86]
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Jul 1, 2014Like most prolific artists, Willie can be hit or miss with his offerings. This latest one lands the target dead on.
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UncutJun 26, 2014Brothers shines brightest when Nelson spins out pithy philosophising, or hits a certain inimitable, rambling, jazzy sweet spot with his longtime band. [Aug 2014, p.70]
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Jun 20, 2014There’s plenty of life in the old dog yet.
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Jun 17, 2014On Band of Brothers, Nelson reminds us that no matter the iconic place he occupies in American popular music as a vocal stylist, he is a classic country singer and songwriter first.
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Jun 20, 2014Even if it can’t measure up to Spirit, Band of Brothers is still a showcase for what Nelson does best.
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Jun 17, 2014Band of Brothers is Willie Nelson’s first album of largely self-penned tunes in almost two decades, but on his latest, Nelson mostly proves he’s still as sharp a vocalist as ever.
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Jun 17, 2014Mr. Cannon’s restrained but ever-supportive production uses Nashville session players and the harmonica player Mickey Raphael from Mr. Nelson’s band, in his perpetual dialogue with Mr. Nelson’s vocals, while Mr. Nelson’s succinct lead guitar turns up regularly.
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Jun 17, 2014The vocals remain indelibly creaky against stony acoustic guitar, bright steel whines and dusty harmonica whinnies.
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Jun 17, 2014Like much of Willie's work these days, Band of Brothers might not bring many new fans into the fold, but it's sure to please those already there.
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Jun 17, 2014The melodies are familiar, but the stuttering guitar style and weathered, laid-back vocals are still unique, still oddly touching.
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Jun 17, 2014Unfortunately for Nelson, Band Of Brothers isn’t the country legend’s best album of all time. It’s pretty good at best, a must only for reasonably hardcore Nelson fans.