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- Summary: The latest full-length release for the country singer-songwriter features two new songs and was produced by Buddy Cannon.
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- Record Label: Sony Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Progressive Country, Traditional Country
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Jul 2, 2020First Rose of Spring is the work of an artist who will never grow old.
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MojoJul 2, 2020This may not be the '70s cosmic cowboy of Nelson in his prime, but wise old grandpa Willie is as sage and poignant now as he has ever been. [Aug 2020, p.85]
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UncutJul 2, 2020Suffused with optimism and defiance. [Aug 2020, p.34]
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Jul 8, 2020Nelson shapes these 11 songs into a warm conversation enhanced by his skill as a singer.
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Jul 10, 2020The highlights are when Nelson sings the songs of his old friends.
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Jul 2, 2020Nelson’s [voice] still boasts a lightness of touch. He might be a soulful elder statesman, but there’s a perkiness to his version of cult outlaw songwriter Billy Joe Shaver’s 1981 track ‘We Are The Cowboys’, which celebrates the multiculturalism of the American cowboy.
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Jul 2, 2020First Rose of Spring is sweet and elegiac, a record that sways gently in the breeze, only picking up its pace when it's time to swing through a cover of Jimmy Dean's "Just Bummin' Around." Original songs are few and far between here.
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