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Willie Nelson's 1978 album, Stardust, was a simply conceived collection of Tin Pan Alley chestnuts, which nevertheless went on to become one of the biggest sellers of his career. The reason wasn't so much the exemplary production and arrangements but the fact that Nelson's notoriously idiosyncratic phrasing extracted humanity from the material that few other vocalists had been able to do before. He has made a couple attempts since to recreate that magic but not until American Classic has any release been deemed an official Stardust follow-up. The timing in this case seems right, since it's now evident that aging...

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