Willie Nelson has announced a new album, The Border, due out May 31st, 2024.
The album is allegedly Willie’s 152nd and features ten newly recorded studio tracks including four new Willie Nelson/Buddy Cannon compositions and will be available digitally, on CD, and vinyl, with a special edition LP pressed on orange vinyl available exclusively at Barnes & Noble. An exclusive vinyl version that includes a 12” x 12 lyric book with extensive listening notes by noted writer Mikal Gilmore and photos by Pamela Springsteen will also be available on Willie’s store.
Along with the new album announcement, Willie Nelson shared the title track and lead single, “The Border”, which speaks to the complex reality of life as a border guard. The song was co-written by Rodney Crowell and Allen Shamblin and appeared on Crowell’s 2019 album Texas.
Listen to “The Border”, the title track from Willie Nelson’s upcoming album, below or on your preferred streaming platform, and click here to pre-order the album.
News of Willie Nelson’s new album arrives the same day the country music legend is set to host his annual Luck Reunion festival in Spicewood, TX with Tyler Childers, Dawes & Lucius, Old Crow Medicine Show, John Oates, Toadies, Próxima Parada, Friko, Durand Jones, Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country, Red Clay Strays, Madi Diaz, Evan Honer, Rainbow Girls, and more. The festival is available to stream via nugs.net. To purchase your subscription to nugs and access the stream, click here. Nugs subscribers also get access to the service’s vast catalog of live concert recordings in addition to future subscriber-exclusive livestreams. For more information, head here.
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Willie Nelson – “The Border”