Let's Face the Music and Dance | ||||
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Released | April 16, 2013 | |||
Studio | Pedernales Recording (Spicewood, Texas) | |||
Genre | Country, rock, jazz, pop | |||
Length | 48:17 | |||
Label | Legacy | |||
Producer | Buddy Cannon | |||
Willie Nelson chronology | ||||
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Let's Face the Music and Dance is the 61st studio album by American country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Nelson's second album under his contract with Legacy Recordings, it was released on April 16, 2013. The album produced by Buddy Cannon featured a collection of standards that Nelson and his sister Bobbie played throughout their careers.
Composed of pop, jazz, rock, and country music standards, the set also included a new version of Nelson's original "Is the Better Part Over" from his 1989 album A Horse Called Music . The album was recorded at Nelson's Pedernales studio in Austin, Texas, was produced by Buddy Cannon and later mixed by Butch Carr at Budro Music Repair Shop in Nashville, Tennessee. [1] The album focuses in his musical relation with his sister, Bobbie, as the standards were played by them during their childhood and throughout their musical career. [2]
The second album by Nelson under his contract with Legacy Recordings, it was released on April 16, 2013. [1] [3] [4]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 68/100 [5] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
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Exclaim! | 7/10 [8] |
PopMatters | 7/10 [9] |
AllMusic rated the album with three stars out of five, Stephen Thomas Erlewine praised the musicality, describing Nelson and The Family's sound as "one seamless unit". [6] The Austin Chronicle also rated the album with three stars out of five, and referred to Nelson's upcoming birthday, calling it "An exquisitely contemplative turn into 80". [7]
Exclaim! praised Nelson's guitar playing and described the band as a "small combo playing songs as timeless as (Nelson's) wonderfully idiosyncratic voice". [8] Daily Record also favored his guitar playing as well as voice, also remarking Nelson's tendence to feature covers, instead of original songwriting in his recent recordings. [10] Popmatters praised Nelson's coordination with the band, describing the record as "a welcome effort; it’s comfortable, graceful, and uniformly pleasant". [9]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Let's Face the Music and Dance" | Irving Berlin | 3:23 |
2. | "Is The Better Part Over" | Willie Nelson | 2:39 |
3. | "You'll Never Know" | Harry Warren, Mack Gordon | 3:32 |
4. | "Vous Et Moi" | Django Reinhardt | 3:23 |
5. | "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" | Roy Turk, Fred E. Ahlert | 3:42 |
6. | "Matchbox" | Carl Perkins | 2:40 |
7. | "Twilight Time" | Buck Ram | 4:07 |
8. | "I Can’t Give You Anything But Love" | Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields | 3:45 |
9. | "I’ll Keep On Loving You" | Moon Mullican | 3:38 |
10. | "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" | Frank Loesser | 4:18 |
11. | "South Of The Border" | Jimmy Kennedy; Michael Carr | 3:51 |
12. | "Nuages" | Django Reinhardt | 3:37 |
13. | "Marie (The Dawn Is Breaking)" | Irving Berlin | 3:07 |
14. | "Shame On You" | Spade Cooley | 2:25 |
Total length: | 48:17 |
Chart (2013) | Peak position |
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US Billboard Top Country Albums [11] | 16 |
US Billboard 200 | 49 |