Click play to check out new Willie Nelson radio tracks from The Border, released May 31, 2024 on Columbia / Legacy.
Formats: AAA, Americana, Country, Bluegrass. Folk, Noncomm
Cowritten by Rodney Crowell and Allen Shamblin for Crowell's 2019 Texas album (a thematic tribute to the Lone Star State which featured guest artist Willie Nelson), "The Border" describes the inner life and outer reality of a border guard ("I work on the border, I see what I see") with Crowell's composition described in Rolling Stone as "more humanist than political, but no less tragic because of it." Willie's wise worldly take on the provocative song taps into an urgent universal relevancy that defines The Border.