- Record Label: Sony Legacy
- Release Date: Apr 16, 2013
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Apr 12, 2013The album sounds as if it were cut in the living room late one night, the bandmembers easing into songs they've always loved but never played.
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May 6, 2013The band isn’t out to break any new ground here, which is what makes the record such a welcome effort; it’s comfortable, graceful, and uniformly pleasant.
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UncutApr 25, 2013Nelson being Nelson, this lackadaisy tends toward the affable and charming more often than not. [Jun 2013, p.76]
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MojoApr 12, 2013Nelson has impeccable taste in cover versions. [May 2013, p.87]
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Q MagazineApr 12, 2013Pretty much everyone sleepwalks through a cabaret mix of standards and new songs. [May 2013, p.102]
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Apr 12, 2013Let's Face the Music and Dance displays Nelson in his natural element: a small combo playing songs as timeless as his wonderfully idiosyncratic voice.
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Apr 16, 2013Let’s Face the Music features some of his strongest and most engaged performances in a decade.
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Apr 12, 2013An exquisitely contemplative turn into 80.
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Jun 4, 2013As an exercise in showcasing the singer’s inimitably laconic way with a variety of styles it’s a real winner.
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May 2, 2013He sounds more at home and natural on these [jazz] songs than on the country music for which he’s most celebrated, making Let’s Face the Music and Dance one of the most effortlessly enjoyable records in his large catalog.
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Apr 16, 2013The country singer turns 80 at the end of the month and although much of the album saunters along, Nelson can still fill a song with emotion, as he shows on his own composition The Better Part of Me.
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Apr 19, 2013If last year’s Heroes, with the tongue-in-cheek “Roll Me Up,” was Willie proving he’s still vital, Let’s Face the Music and Dance is a legend who has seen it all reveling in the melancholy of time’s passing.