Američka muzička legenda Willie Nelson, svoj  sledeći album posvetiće prijatelju i izvoru inspiracije Franku Sinatri. Album će izaći  26. februara digitalno, na CD-u i LP-u (12″).  To će biti njegov 15. studijski album koji objavljuje za Legacy Recordings.

Willie Nelson je album najavio uoči Sinatrinog 105. rođendana (12. decembra 1915. – Los Angeles, 14. maj 1998.)

Svoju zadivljenost Sinatrinim opusom, Willie Nelson je pokazao i na albumu „My Way“ (2018) za koji je osvojio i Grammy za najbolji tradicionalni pop solo album.

Na ovom drugom albumu Sinatrinih standarda, naći će se neke od najcenjenijih pesama iz Velike američke pesmarice.  Čak je i naslovna strana albuma na kojoj   Willie Nelson pozira  pod uličnom svetiljkom sa svojom legendarnom gitarom , Trigger, posveta naslovnici  Sinatrinog albuma „In The Wee Small Hours“.

Willie na nadolazećem albumu donosi interpretacije Sinatrinih pesama: „Nice Work If You Can Get It,“ „Just In Time,“ „Cottage For Sale,“ „I’ve Got You Under My Skin,“ „You Make Me Feel So Young,“ „I Won’t Dance“ (featuring Diana Krall), „That’s Life,“ „Luck Be A Lady,“ „In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning,“ „Learnin’ The Blues“ i „Lonesome Road.“

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„That’s Life“ je snimljen u Capitol Studios, u Holivudu, a producenti su Buddy Cannon i Matt Rollings. Sinatra je bio prvi izvođač koji je  snimao u tom studiju – od marta 1956. do novembra 1961. Dodatna snimanja Nelson je odradio u Pedernales studijima u Ostinu, Teksas.

Willie nam donosi 11 novih studijskih interpretacija  za koje je miksa uradio Al Schmitt (snimio je preko 150 albuma koji su dostigli zlatne i platinaste tiraže  i osvojio više nagrada Grammy od bilo kog tonskog majstora). Dva iskonska avatara, od kojih je svaki definisao svoj deo američke pop kulture, Frank Sinatra i Willie Nelson, prenose širok spektar romantičnih emocija – od opijenosti ljubavlju, preko mamurluka pa do slomljenog srca – u pesmama i u nastupima kroz koje se direktno povezuju sa slušaocima.

Willie Nelson i Frank Sinatra bili su bliski prijatelji, muzičke kolege, sarađivali su i obostrano se divili međusobnom radu tokom Sinatrinog života.

Redosled pesama:

  1. Nice Work If You Can Get It
  2. Just In Time
  3. Cottage For Sale
  4. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
  5. You Make Me Feel So Young
  6. I Won’t Dance (featuring Diana Krall)
  7. That’s Life
  8. Luck Be A Lady
  9. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning
  10. Learnin’ The Blues
  11. Lonesome Road
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Willie Nelson – That’s Life

track listing (songwriters; Frank Sinatra version, date)

  1. Nice Work If You Can Get It (Ira Gershwin & George Gershwin; Sinatra-Basie: An Historic Musical First, 1962)
  2. Just In Time (Adolph Green, Jule Styne & Betty Comden; Come Dance With Me!, 1959)
  3. A Cottage For Sale (Larry Conley & Willard Robison; No One Cares, 1959)
  4. I’ve Got You Under My Skin (Cole Porter; Songs For Swingin’ Lovers!, 1956)
  5. You Make Me Feel So Young (Josef Myrow & Mack Gordon; Songs For Swingin’ Lovers!, 1956)
  6. I Won’t Dance – featuring Diana Krall (Jerome Kerr, Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach, Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields; A Swingin’ Affair!, 1957)
  7. That’s Life (Dean Kay & Kelly Gordon, That’s Life, 1966)
  8. Luck Be A Lady (Frank Loesser; My Kind Of Broadway, 1965)
  9. In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning (David Mann & Bob Hilliard; In The Wee Small Hours, 1955)
  10. Learnin’ The Blues (Dolores Vicki Silvers; Session with Sinatra EP, single, 1955)
  11. Lonesome Road (Nathaniel Shilkret & Gene Austin; A Swingin’ Affair!, 1957)
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Produced by Buddy Cannon & Matt Rollings

Recorded at Capitol Studios; Hollywood, CA

Additional Recording at Pedernales Studios; Austin, TX – Dan Rudin Recording, Blackbird Studios, The Practice Room; Nashville, TN – Armoury Studios; Vancouver, BC Canada

Mixed by Al Schmitt & Niko Bolas at Capitol Studios; Hollywood, CA

Musicians:

Willie Nelson – Trigger

Matt Rollings – piano, B-3 organ, vibraphone, hand claps

Dean Parks – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, hand claps

David Piltch – bass, hand claps

Jay Bellerose – drums, tambourine, hand claps

Mickey Raphael – harmonica

Paul Franklin – steel guitar

Chris McDonald – trombone

Jeff Coffin – tenor saxophone

Mark Douthit – alto saxophone

Barry Green – trombone

Mike Haynes – trumpet

Doug Moffet – baritone saxophone

Steve Patrick – trumpet, piccolo trumpet

Matt Forbes – hand claps

Ed Cherney – hand claps

Buddy Cannon – hand claps

Strings: Kristin Wilkinson, David Angell, Monisa Angell, Carrie Bailey, Kevin Bate, David Davidson, Conni Ellisor, Cornelia Heard, Alison Hoffman, Paul Nelson, Sari Reist, Karen Winkelmann

Strings orchestrated by Kristin Wilkinson

Horns orchestrated by Chris McDonald