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May 22, 2017From start to finish, God’s Problem Child is a quintessential Willie Nelson record and there are few things in the world better than that.
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MagnetMay 18, 2017The album's greatest treasures are sadder and subtler, finding their place within the Willie trifecta of love, loss and loneliness. [No. 142, p.59]
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May 17, 2017The final third of the disc hits a tempo rut, though some such selections are ripe for rearrangement and reinterpretation.
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Q MagazineMay 9, 2017Eloquent, revelatory and moving. [Jul 2017, p.111]
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May 9, 2017These songs don't contain the spine-tingling embrace of death that fuelled Leonard Cohen and David Bowie's final albums, but Nelson faces his realities head on here, with grit and a grin.
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May 1, 2017At times, Nelson’s nonchalance makes some of the more topical concerns on God’s Problem Child feel a tad hackneyed. ... That leaves plenty of space for the other veteran songwriters to slip Nelson their own meditations on aging.
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Apr 27, 2017As ever, it’s all played with impeccably economical style, tight-as-a-drum country shuffles with occasional jazz excursions; the work of a bona fide legend who’s never sounded more alive.
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Apr 27, 2017While perhaps not a definitive artistic statement, God’s Problem Child is nonetheless an indisputable high point in this late stage of Nelson’s career, one that will no doubt go down as required listening for those who would ever deign to question his continued cultural relevancy.
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Apr 27, 2017On God’s Problem Child, he sounds a bit like a weathered harmonica: he might have lost some of his higher notes, but he can soar through all the ones that count. The arrangements, which skew more toward classic country and slower tempos than Band Of Brothers, also help highlight Willie’s strengths.
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Apr 27, 2017There isn't a hint of fussiness and the songs and the performances are so understated, they only seem richer with repeated spins.
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Apr 27, 2017Honesty gives God’s Problem Child heft.
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Apr 27, 2017God's Problem Child is a tightly-woven, poignant collection of ruminations on aging and fading faculties that amounts to Nelson's most moving album in decades.