Album: That's Life
Label: Legacy Recordings
Release date: February 26, 2021
That's Life is the upcoming seventy-first solo studio album by Willie Nelson. It is scheduled to be released on February 26, 2021, by Legacy Recordings as a tribute to Frank Sinatra, representing the third volume of Nelson's Sinatra collection, following 2018's My Way and 1978's Stardust.
Produced by Buddy Cannon and Matt Rollings, it was mainly recorded on Capitol Studios, the original studio used for several of Sinatra's recordings. Additional tracks were recorded at Nelson's Pedernales studio. The release was mixed by engineer Al Schmitt, featuring string and brass arrangements. The cover of the album features a painting of Nelson evoking the cover of Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours.
“I learned a lot about phrasing listening to Frank,” Nelson said in 2018. “He didn’t worry about behind the beat or in front of the beat, or whatever — he could sing it either way, and that’s the feel you have to have.”
Nelson has routinely visited Sinatra’s songbook over the years, first on 1978’s Stardust, full of standards that Sinatra popularized. That record went quadruple platinum and became his most successful album ever. In 2018, Nelson released My Way, made up entirely of Sinatra songs, and won a Grammy.
The first release off the album is the single below, "Cottage For Sale."
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