It is ironic that country icon Willie Nelson should give his album the title Country Music. As if he wants to make it clear to his country fans that this album is back on familiar territory. That is not very strange. Nelson recently made jazz albums with Wynton Marsalis and even a reggae album (Countryman), but is now back with an old-fashioned country album. It is wonderful to see that the elderly
… (he is 77 years old when this CD is released) Nelson has been working for fifty years and just keeps on playing. On this album, the living legend mines in rich American song history with traditionals like Nobody's Fault But Mine, I Am A Pilgrim and proven classics like Pistol Packin 'Mama (Al Dexter) and House Of Gold (Hank Williams). Country Music has become an acoustic album, colored by the fiddle, banjo, pedal steel and mandolin of his backing band. In this form, Nelson can safely last another fifty years. (PdK)more
