“The road ain’t gettin’ shorter/I think the weed is getting’ stronger”, Willie sings at the top of “ No Place To Fly”, “And I’m tryin’ not to speak to no one who don’t care”, as if to make his intentions perfectly clear. Populated by his old cronies, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Ray Price and Billy Joe Shaver, as well as reverent younger artists like Jamey Johnson (capably filling in for the absent Waylon Jennings) and Sheryl Crow (at her most affectingly spontaneous), Heroes has the distinct feel of a last roundup. Signing with Legacy, Sony’s the catalog label, in order to curate his own vast legacy, 78-year-old Willie Nelson kicks things off with a major new studio album. Sepia-toned friends-and-family set from the living legend…
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