Willie Nelson And Family "Lets Face The Music And Dance" Tracklist and Cover Art

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Willie Nelson And Family "Lets Face The Music And Dance" Tracklist and Cover Art

Set to be released on April 16, 2013, Lets Face The Music And Dance will be the second album of new material from Willie Nelson's new record deal with Legacy Recordings. Read on to learn more about the tracklist and cover art for the album recorded with his band The Family.

A collection of deep pop country repertoire classics performed with transformative patented ease by Willie Nelson and Family, his long-time touring and recording ensemble, Let's Face The Music And Dance was recorded at Pedernales Recording Studio in Austin, Texas, produced by Buddy Cannon and mixed by Butch Carr at Budro Music Repair Shop in Nashville, Tennessee.

2013 is shaping up as a banner year for the pop country patriarch, who turns 80 on April 30.  His rollicking memoir, "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die - Musings from the Road," published by HarperCollins in May 2012, is currently a New York Times bestselling non-fiction title and Let's Face The Music And Dance is an essential addition to the outlaw country artist's catalog of timeless recordings.

Compiling the repertoire for Let's Face The Music And Dance, Willie chose a range of pop, rock, jazz and country classics drawn from the 1930s ("Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Walking My Baby Back Home"), 1940s ("You'll Never Know," "I Wish I Didn't Love You So," "Shame On You") and 1950s ("Matchbox") covering evergreen songwriters Irving Berlin, Mack Gordon, Carl Perkins, Frank Loesser, Django Reinhardt and Spade Cooley, among others.  Willie turns in a beautiful new version of his composition "Is The Better Part Over," a song he introduced on 1989's A Horse Called Music.

Let's Face The Music And Dance - Willie Nelson and Family

tracklisting

1. Let's Face the Music and Dance (Irving Berlin, 1935)

2. Is the Better Part Over (Willie Nelson, 1989)

3. You'll Never Know (Mack Gordon, 1943)

4. Vous Et Moi (Claude Francois-Jean Bourtayre)

5. Walking My Baby Back Home (Fred Ahlert-Roy Turk, 1930)

6. Matchbox (Carl Perkins, 1957)

7. Twilight Time (Al Nevins-Morty Nevins)

8. I Can't Give You Anything But Love (Dorothy Fields-Jimmy McHugh)

9. I'll Keep On Loving You (Richard Coburn-Vincent Rose)

10. I Wish I Didn't Love You So (Frank Loesser, 1947)

11. South Of The Border (Jimmy Kennedy-Michael Carr)

12. Nuages (Django Reinhardt)

13. Marie (The Dawn Is Breaking)

14. Shame On You (Spade Cooley, 1944)

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