Willie Nelson

Willie sings Sinatra.

#### That’s Life LEGACY. CD/DL/LP

One is a country star from Texas, the other a pop idol from New Jersey, but the Red Headed Stranger is the perfect interpreter of Ol’ Blue Eyes. Beginning with 1978’s

Stardust, Willie Nelson’s been mining the same Great American Songbook gold and chart hits that Frank Sinatra made great to begin with. What’s astonishing is that at the age of 87, Nelson has not lost any of his breath control and singular phrasing. The swing-ading-ding arrangements owe a debt to the late, great Nelson Riddle, although he never used a pedal steel guitar. Classics include entries from the Gershwins and Cole Porter, and the vulnerable but fighting spirit of the title track. Diana Krall joins Nelson for a wonderful

pas de deux on I Won’t Dance – and yet dance they do!