Music
Dalai Lama
To say Inner World is probably the best debut album by an octogenarian you’ll hear this year is underplaying its quality. Released to mark the Dalai Lama’s 85th birthday, this collection of mantras and chants goes beyond novelty, as befits someone with a Glastonbury Festival appearance under his belt.
Willie Nelson
Willie is in reflective mode here, culminating in a lush version of the standard Yesterday When I Was Young. In fact, a number of songs reference first love, but Nelson’s not completely lost his edge. On We Are The Cowboys, he takes aim at one of his favourite all-american targets.
He most successfully pulls at the heartstrings on Stealing Home, but elsewhere his sentimentality becomes a little cloying.