God's Problem Child
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| Studio album by Willie Nelson | ||||
| Released | April 28, 2017 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 44:25 | |||
| Label | Legacy Recordings | |||
| Producer | Buddy Cannon | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 83/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Uncut | 8/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
| Record Collector | |
| Paste | 8.5/10 |
| Pichfork | 7.6/10 |
| Austin American-Statesman | Favorable |
God's Problem Child, released on April 28, 2017, is the 61st studio album by singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. The album features new songs co-written by Nelson and producer Buddy Cannon. Using their frequent method, Cannon and Nelson wrote the songs exchanging the lyrics in text messages, while Nelson later recorded his vocals in the studio. The review aggregator website Metacritic reports that that the album has received "universal acclaim".
The title track was written by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe White, and features vocals by Leon Russell in one of his last recordings. Alison Krauss provides background vocals on the tracks "True Love" and "Little House on the Hill". The original album title, I'm Not Dead, refers to the recurrent hoaxes announcing Nelson's death. "Delete and Fast-Forward" describes Nelson's view on the 2016 United States elections. The release includes a song written by Cannon's mother, Lyndel Rhodes. It also includes "He Won't Ever Be Gone", a tribute to Merle Haggard written by Gary Nicholson. Seven tracks on the album are written by Nelson and Cannon. Alongside traditional music retailers, the release was made available for pre-order on the website PledgeMusic along with promotional merchandise.
The album's lead single, "A Woman's Love", and its respective video premiered on Rolling Stone's website on February 14, 2017. The video for the single "It Gets Easier" was later premiered by the Los Angeles Times on March 9. Later, on March 28, the video for "Old Timer" first appeared on The Daily Beast.
Upon its release, God's Problem Child reached number one on Billboard's Top Country Albums with 36,000 album-equivalent units and 34,000 pure sales. It became Nelson's sixteenth country album chart-topper, while it also entered the Billboard 200 at number ten.
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