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Q MagazineOct 12, 2012Maybe not vintage Willie, but entertaining enough. [Jul 2012, p.107]
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MojoJun 26, 2012[Nelson] moves effortlessly from pop country balladry to well-heated Western Swing. [Jul 2012, p.94]
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May 18, 2012While Heroes adds some essential songs to his canon and certainly doesn't diminish his legacy, it ultimately lacks enough of what makes Willie Nelson albums so enjoyable: Willie Nelson himself.
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May 17, 2012Heroes isn't in that league, [with albums, "Teatro" or "Songbird"] but in its best moments it shows that he's still able to reach, if not necessarily sustain, those dazzling heights.
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May 15, 2012Makes you long for more Willie, less Willie and Friends.
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May 15, 2012He excellently lends Coldplay's 'The Scientist' a terse fragility, but less successful is a sanitised, Sheryl Crow-featuring version of Tom Waits' 'Come On Up To The House'.
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May 11, 2012As usual, guests crowd the album... less welcome, though, is the way that vast tranches of the album serve as a showcase for Willie's son, Lukas.
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May 11, 2012An appealingly misshapen collection of classics, contemporaries, and originals.
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May 11, 2012Offering up a populist mix of original compositions, covers of cowboy classics and contemporary songs in equal measure. This frequently ends up frustrating.
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May 21, 2012Inconsistency and lack of focus mars Heroes, which relies too heavily on misguided collaborations that don't add anything of value to the album.