God's Problem Child
by Willie Nelson
  • Record Label: Legacy
  • Release Date: Apr 28, 2017
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7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
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  1. amucomm
    Jan 4, 2018
    9
    Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD

    Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson who with "GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD" released his best album in almost two decades, not counting his collaboration albums with Ray Price, Kimmie Rhodes, and Wynton Marsalis. It's not just the title track, "God's Problem Child," a song written by    Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD

    Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson who with "GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD" released his best album in almost two decades, not counting his collaboration albums with Ray Price, Kimmie Rhodes, and Wynton Marsalis.
    It's not just the title track, "God's Problem Child," a song written by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe White, who both join Willie together with the late Leon Russell, that will lure you in. There's a tribute by Gary Nicholson for the late Merle Haggard "He Won't Ever Be Gone," the metaphor of a "Butterfly" (Sonny Throckmorton and Mark Sherrill), the reflective, outstanding "Old Timer" by "Funky" Donnie Fritts and Lenny LeBlanc as well as seven songs Willie wrote with his producer Buddy Cannon, "Lady Luck" will you take waltzing, but it's two of the slower songs that will catch your attention, the superb, instant classic, hard-to-get-over-a-lost-love "Your Memory Has A Mind Of Its Own," a brilliant reworking of "Love Has A Mind Of Its Own" and the sorrowful adaptation of getting old, "It Gets Easier."
    It gets easier to say "some other time"
    It gets easier to tell the world to wait
    And it gets easier to watch the world fly by
    And tell it, "I will catch up, but not today"    … Collapse

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79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Blurt Magazine
    May 22, 2017
    80
    From 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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  2. Magnet
    May 18, 2017
    80
    The album's greatest treasures are sadder and subtler, finding their place within the Willie trifecta of love, loss and loneliness. [No. 142, p.59]
  3. Mojo
    May 17, 2017
    60
    It's an exploration of the end that assets it's not over. [May 2017, p.88]
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