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WILLIE NELSON, MERLE HAGGARD, RAY PRICE - Last Of The Breed
| Slant Magazine | The only point on which to take issue with Last Of The Breed, the new two-volume collaboration by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price, is its pretentious title. To dub themselves the "last of the breed" in reference to the album's pitch as a torchbearer for traditional country is an overt knock against a handful of tradition-minded major label stars (Brad Paisley and Josh Turner, to pick the two biggest sellers) and countless independent country acts whose entire artistic personas are reactions to soulless Nashville pop-country (i.e. the rest of the Lost Highway roster), and it simply ignores the fact that genre legends like George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Bobby Bare, Loretta Lynn, and Dolly Parton are all still alive and making what's arguably the finest music of their careers. We're all saddened by the recent losses of Johnny Cash and Buck Owens, guys, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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| | LA Daily News | The country legends reportedly recorded this two-disc set of impeccably arranged Western swing, countrypolitan standards, love ballads and assorted Opry chestnuts in a mere two days. You have to marvel at the smooth expertise of the finished product — but also wonder if a little more time might have yielded anything more adventurous and memorable, like so much of the old boys' individual work (and on Nelson's earlier duet albums with Haggard and Price). But, shoot; Johnny Gimble's on fiddle, Buddy Emmons is at the pedal steel, and the Jordanaires sing chorus. Not much to complain about.
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| | PitchFork | | Between them, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price have been recording and touring for more than 150 years: Nelson made his name as a DJ and songwriter in the 1950s, when Ray was establishing his own career as a smooth crooner and Haggard was getting ready to parlay his prison experience into one of the most successful country careers of the 60s and 70s. During that time they've collaborated repeatedly, most notably on Nelson and Haggard's Pancho & Lefty in 1980 and Nelson and Price's San Antonio Rose in 1990 and Run That By Me One More Time in 2003....full text |
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