Heroes

Willie Nelson  Guitar (Acoustic) ,  Willie Nelson  Composer ,  Willie Nelson  Vocals ,  Willie Nelson  Main Performer

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1 A Horse Called Music Carson 4:38
2 Roll Me Up Alves/Cannon/Colgin 3:26
3 That's All There Is to This Song Cannon 3:03
4 No Place to Fly Nelson 5:08
5 Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her Nelson 2:49
6 Come on Up to the House Brennan/Waits 5:16
7 Hero Nelson 4:39
8 My Window Faces the South Livingston/Parish/S 2:33
9 The Sound of Your Memory Nelson/Rainey 6:11
10 Cold War with You Tillman 4:05
11 Just Breathe Vedder 4:03
12 Home in San Antone Rose 4:10
13 Come on Back Jesus Cannon/Nelson/Nelso 3:25
14 The Scientist Berryman/Buckland/C 5:05
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Heroes

Audio Compact Disc

Label: Legacy

Category: Pop/Rock

Heroes

UPC: 886919604825

Release Date: 05/15/2012

Original Release Date: 05/15/2012

Number of Discs: 1

Tracks: [A Horse Called Music, Roll Me Up, That's All There Is to This Song, No Place to Fly, Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her, Come on Up to the House, Hero, My Window Faces the South, The Sound of Your Memory, Cold War with You, Just Breathe, Home in San Antone, Come on Back Jesus, The Scientist]
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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Returning to the Columbia/Sony family after nearly two decades away, Willie Nelson once again tries to be everything to everybody on 2012's Heroes, an appealingly misshapen collection of classics, contemporaries, and originals. Heroes -- its title signifying no great concept -- is roughly divided into quarters, with part of the album devoted to the Western swing and Texas country he's always loved to sing, part consisting of new songs from Willie, part originals from his son Lukas, and part covers of newer, rock-oriented tunes from the likes of Tom Waits, Eddie Vedder, and Chris Martin. Each of these categories is a bit hit-or-miss, either succumbing to cutesy novelty (the dope-smoking anthem "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die," complete with country cadences from a non-rapping Snoop Dogg) or laziness, and there's a wee bit too much Lukas Nelson scattered throughout the record, with the son of the father singing on no less than nine of the album's 14 songs. This can be too much of a strong spice, obscuring the overall flavor of the music, but Lukas contributes a couple of the record's best songs in "Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her" and "The Sound of Your Memory," songs that fit well next to a quite beautiful version of Vedder's "Just Breathe" and yet another strong, swinging rendition of "My Window Faces the South." And so Heroes kind of winds up summarizing all that's good and bad about Willie as he approaches his 80th birthday: he's open to everything but has no innate editor, so he whiffs as often as he connects, but when he does connect, it's a wonder to behold...and somehow he can still surprise whenever he sings those old songs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi