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SPRINGTIME
FOR HITS LIST
Meet this week's ensemble cast. (3/18a)
NEAR TRUTHS: STREAMING AND STREAMLINING
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TOP 50: ARI BASKS
IN THE sunshine
The biggest bow of the year (3/15a)
THE COUNT: ROLLING LOUD KEEPS ITS EYES ON THE PRIZE
The latest from the live sector (3/14a)
DEEPER WELL MARKS KACEY MUSGRAVES’ “SATURN RETURN”
Gleason on Musgraves (3/18a)
THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
Critics' Choice
WILLIE GETS HIGH ON GERSHWIN
2/5/16

Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, the subtitle of a new Sony Legacy set called Summertime (due 2/26), is one of those ideas that's at once outside-the-box and perfectly logical.

Which explains why the music icon received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song last year.

Nelson's masterful, nuanced way with a song and the jazzy inflections of his guitar are a perfect match for this breezy slate of standards.

Taking on perennials like "Someone to Watch Over Me," "It Ain't Necessarily So, "I Got Rhythm" (which gets a rambling Western-swing treatment), "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and the title track, among others, Nelson casts a dappled-sunshine glow on some very well-trod ground. Guests Cyndi Lauper and Sheryl Crow, meanwhile, bring some distaff dazzle to the festivities. Never has the Great American Songbook sounded better at 4:20.