system staple on his tour and earned newspaper front page pulpits when aired on commercial radio in Sydney and Melbourne.īut that was then and now Nelson has his own herb superb brand Willie's Reserve that is available alongside Annie's Edibles - chocolate cookies marketed by fourth wife Annie - in U.S. That tune, written on a plane between Tamworth and Sydney the year before by this diarist, became a pre-concert P.A. Willie vividly recalled the launch and dwarf two years later when his merchandising manager Bo Franks played him the Dead Livers homage I'd Love To Have A Joint With Willie before his debut 1981 Australian tour. It wasn't just the music that left an indelible memory mark for me - it was the dwarf who ran through Willie's legs as I was in the throes of being introduced to the Red-Headed Stranger. I first recall seeing Willie live in 1978 at the Austin Opry House for the launch of his Lone Star Records that boasted Willie album Face of A Fighter and also featured Don Bowman, the Geezinslaw Brothers, Larry G Hudson, Cooder Browne and other Texan peers. So there's no chance of Willie slowing down with cameos on peers discs and, of course, his 44 th July picnic with family and pals in Austin this year. God's Problem Child is Willie's first album with all-new songs since Band of Brothers in June 2014 There's no accurate tally of how many albums Willie has released in his prolific 55 year recording career but it far exceeds 100 - this is the 10th since 2012 in his Legacy series. It's one of seven songs penned by Texan Willie and longtime producer and partner in rhyme Buddy Cannon who doesn't keep his powder dry as he joins his client in five videos released to promote latest album God's Problem Child. “So I just wanted to let them know that's a lot of horse-shit.” “I got up two or three times in the last couple of years and read the paper where I'd passed away,” Nelson joked of his instant inspiration for Still Not Dead. So it's no surprise that Willie, a ripe young 84-year-old, penned I Woke Up Still Not Dead Today in response to Internet trolls choking on their own click bait. There's a tribute by Gary Nicholson for the late Merle Haggard "He Won't Ever Be Gone," the metaphor of a "Butterfly" (Sonny Throckmorton and Mark Sherrill), the reflective, outstanding "Old Timer" by "Funky" Donnie Fritts and Lenny LeBlanc as well as seven songs Willie wrote with his producer Buddy Cannon, "Lady Luck" will you take waltzing, but it's two of the slower songs that will catch your attention, the superb, instant classic, hard-to-get-over-a-lost-love "Your Memory Has A Mind Of Its Own," a brilliant reworking of "Love Has A Mind Of Its Own" and the sorrowful adaptation of getting old, "It Gets Easier.Shotgun Willie Nelson has long been the master of wry humour that leaves detractors run down by their own tractors in the fickle show biz circus that has a hybrid high wire of whimsy and woe. It's not just the title track, "God's Problem Child," a song written by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe White, who both join Willie together with the late Leon Russell, that will lure you in. Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson - GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD Another octogenarian that is "Still Not Dead" but heartily is joking about the fact, is Austinite Willie Nelson who with "GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD" released his best album in almost two decades, not counting his collaboration albums with Ray Price, Kimmie Rhodes, and Wynton Marsalis.