Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release ‘Last Man Standing’, Willie Nelson's new studio album (and 11th for the label) on Friday, April 27 – just in time for Willie's 85th birthday (April 29).

• Last Man Standing, comprised entirely of songs newly-penned by Willie Nelson (and longtime collaborator and producer Buddy Cannon), is the worthy successor to Willie's ‘God's Problem Child’, which showcased seven Nelson-Cannon compositions and debuted at #1 on the Country cahrts in the USA. Willie and Buddy have been working together since 2008 with Cannon producing more than a dozen of Willie's albums.
• The songwriting duo deploys a unique strategy of shared composition, beginning with back-and-forth text messaging of lyrics with the melodies. On ‘Last Man Standing’, Nelson and Cannon's unorthodox generated eleven original songs, ‘Willie's a jazz singer and jazz player. He's an improvisational musician. It's different every thime. Get a good take and go with it,’ says Cannon.
• With ‘Last Man Standing’ Nelson has added 11 essential new songs to his classic catalog. One of Willie's most personal and introspective albums to-date, ‘Last Man Standing’ reveals the emotional range of Willie's concerns, from the deeply reflective (‘Something You Get Through’, to the rollicking and playful ‘Me And You’ & ‘Ready To Roar’.
• An album that acknowledges the transience of time while marvelling at the joy, beauty and surprise the world has to offer, ‘Last Man Standing’ finds Willie Nelson rolling at a creative peak, writing and singing and playing with the seasoned wit and wisdom that comes from the road.