★ ★ ★ ★ ☆
You know what you're getting with a modern day Willie album. The slow songs will be melancholic and wistful, the light songs will be silly and funny, there will be an unexpected cover made entirely his own (here it's Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are"), and the whole will be flawlessly executed with the skill and grace of a man who's been churning out classic songs his whole life. Favorite tracks: "Come On Time" (not an exhortation to arrive early, but a gentle rebuke, in apostrophe form, to Time), "Ride Me Back Home," "Seven Year Itch, "It's Hard To Be Humble."
