In April a new album for ninety -two -year -old Willie Nelson

Ninety -two years and not showing them and wanting to continue making music. Always amazes the strength of the assets Willie Nelson which releases the new album on April 25 “Oh What in Beautiful World”In which twelve songs reinterprets Rodney Crowell.

To anticipate the disc is now available for the single “Oh What in Beautiful World“, A duet with Rodney Crowell himself. In its original version it is the final piece of the album “Sky tarpaper”By Crowell from 2014.

The careers of American songwriters Willie Nelsonborn in 1933, e Rodney Crowellborn in 1950, they have crossed several times during their life since Crowell listened for the first time the first songs of Nelson on the radio and witnessed his shows in Houston, in the mid -1960s.

Both are part of the Musical Outlaw Country current, a movement that has revolutionized the traditional country between the sixties and seventies, with a more authentic and rebellious approach.

“Oh What a Beautiful World” (Willie’s 154th album according to the Alonon Alson Albums Ranked list of Texas Monthly and his 77th Studio solo album) is composed of new interpretations of 12 classic songs by Rodney Crowell written in the last 50 years. This project is part of Nelson’s long tradition of dedicating entire albums to the repertoire of a single author.

For the first time, Willie for the first time a song by Rodney Crowell in 1983 and did it 40 years later, in the 2024 “The Border” album.

Rodney Crowellborn in Texas, began his musical career in the early 70s, shaking friendships with artists such as Guy Clark and Townnes Van Zandt.

He moved to Nashville, where he collaborates with Jerry Reed and with Emmylou Harris in the Hot Band. In 1978 he began his solo career, signing with Warner Bros. Records and producing the debut album of Rosanne cash (Johnny’s daughter), with whom she marries.

Among his first solo albums are “Ain’t Living Lug Like This” (1978) and “But What Will the Neighbors Think” (1980). After a difficult period, marked by personal and working problems, he published “Street Language” in 1986 with Columbia Records and obtained fame with “Diamonds & Dirt”. He wins a Grammy for best country song in 1990 for “After all this time”.

After the divorce from Rosanne Cash in 1991, he published discs for the RCA without great success. He returns active between 2001 and 2003 with various labels and in 2008 he published “Sex & Gasoline”, appointed to the Grammy.

In 2013, he collaborated with Emmylou Harris in an album that won the Grammy for the best American album.