Love, Death, and a Bleating Goat: Inside Willie’s Strange and Beautiful New Album

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk through a dream with Willie Nelson? To encounter old ghosts and regrets, to peek in on long-ago moments of joy and pain, some seemingly ever-present and others deeply buried, and to have Willie at your side? Not as a tour guide but as a translator, the reassuring, 91-year-old shaman who keeps pulling your focus back to the big picture Truth—that the journey is not a straight line, it’s a circle. That life’s ups and downs are sure enough real; beginnings and ends are not.That is the feeling of listening to Willie’s new album, Last Leaf on the Tree. It was produced by his 34-year-old son Micah, an L.A.-based, all-disciplines artist whose musical works, created…

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