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Old 11-13-2011, 12:16 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I... I know this may be very difficult to believe. But, I like Willie Nelson.

His somewhat poppy rendition of country has a level of musical subtlety you don't usually find in country. Most country when you listen to it, it's impossible to find anything beneath the surface, but Willie tends to have this ability to apply some subtle transformations that give his songs a sense of motion that 99.9999% of country is oblivious to.

Listen closely, and you'll notice that he's actually going through quite a few phases:



Also, notice how small elements like the harmonica, guitar, etc. Enter just as they need to, when they need to. Really, for this style of music, the composition is superb. Suppose as superb as the lyrics are inane.
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