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| ARTIST: |
Willie Nelson
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| ALBUM: |
The Great Divide |
| LABEL: |
Lost Highway Records |
| RELEASED: |
2002 |
Willie Nelson just seems to turn out great album after great album. And while collaboration is the name of the game on his latest release - as it often is with Willie - The Great Divide is a Willie Nelson album through and through. His pairing with Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 takes a page directly from the Clive Davis how-to-have-a-hit playbook, and produces a fantastic, catchy and rousing track in "Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)". "Mendocino County Line," co-written by Bernie Taupin (as are two others on the disc), features Lee Ann Womack on vocals and leans closer than any track on the disc to "new country." On "This Face" Willie sings about growing old and comfortable and counting the non-material assets of an honest life, and the most successful duet on the album comes when Willie is joined by world-class singer/songwriter Brian McKnight on "Don't Fade Away." They seamlessly bring together the disparate worlds with which these two heavyweights are most closely associated - country and R&B.
The CD also contains a key to unlock some great web content, including an electronic press kit on the making of the album and a behind the scenes documentary with Willie and Lee Ann Womack.
review by Bruce Hartley
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