On his new album Willie Nelson reflects on mortality

Willie Nelson has a new album which comes out today. The country music legend is 84-years-old now and many of the songs on this record deal with mortality.

In the title track "Last Man Standing" Nelson reflects on the loss of many of his good friends and contemporaries — people like Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings and Ray Price.

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