![]() ![]() ![]() “You had your run, and it’s been a good one,” Nelson notes in “Old Timer,” among the album’s most haunting and significant contributions, “seems like the world is passing you by…. ![]() Dejected but not completely discouraged, wistful without losing his inspired spirit, it’s an album with a weighted conscious and a forgiving heart, each filled with feeling. Mellower and more reflective than usual, with a sorrowful heart that weighs heavily over his collection, it’s easily Nelson’s most substantive, meaningful record in some time. He isn’t withered, by any means, but he’s contemplative and heavy-hearted with God’s Problem Child, his 61st(!) studio album and, almost certainly, his most pensive collection to date. At 84, Willie Nelson is a legend with a mortality complex.
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