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Ride Me Back Home, 2019
Written by Willie Nelson & Buddy Cannon
Listen for the silent E!
This song, from Willie Nelson's sixty-ninth (!) solo album, is, despite its title, not an exhortation to arrive early, but a gentle rebuke, in apostrophe form, to Time, the entity. "Why did you leave these lines on my face? / You sure have put me in my place." The rhythm section chugs along like a train, while Willie, with his usual wit and mild self-deprecation, asserts that he'll do his best to beat Time, at least this time. There is a vanishingly tiny number of artists that continue to invent and create well into old age, and Nelson is up there with Bob Dylan in fusing mature wisdom and perspective with youthful skill. Everything he sings immediately becomes his own, and he makes it seem easy.
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