First Rose of Spring

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First Rose of Spring
File:First Rose of Spring Willie Nelson.jpg
Studio album by Willie Nelson
Released July 3, 2020
Studio
  • The Tracking Room (Nashville)
  • UMG Studios (Nashville)
  • Blackbird Studios (Nashville)
  • Pedernales Studios (Austin)
  • The Tone Dock (Nashville)
Genre Country
Length 41:21
Label Legacy
Producer Buddy Cannon
Willie Nelson chronology
Ride Me Back Home
(2019)		 First Rose of Spring
(2020)		 That's Life
(2021)
Singles from First Rose of Spring

First Rose of Spring is the seventieth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. It was released on July 3, 2020, by Legacy Recordings. The album was produced by Buddy Cannon. The album was originally scheduled to be released on April 24, but was pushed back to July 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Content

The album features eleven tracks. Nelson and Cannon co-wrote two originals for the album, while the remaining tracks include compositions by Chris Stapleton, Toby Keith and Pete Graves. The title track was written by Randy Houser, Allen Shamblin and Mack Vickery. The closing track of the album is a cover of Roy Clark's "Yesterday When I Was Young", originally written by Charles Aznavour as "Hier encore".[1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 76/100[2]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars[3]
The Independent 4/5 stars[4]
NME 3/5 stars[5]

First Rose of Spring received positive review from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 76 out of 100 based on six reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."[2]

Peter J. Hoetjes from Glide Magazine praised the album's songwriting and use of organic instruments, saying that Nelson "willfully imbues First Rose of Spring with his own brand of bitter honesty, giving the album the sort of emotional resonance that the majority of his contemporary peers forgo in exchange for switchboard instrumentation and hollow lyricism."[6] Writing for The Independent, Elisa Bray gave the album four out of five stars, describing it as "the work of an artist who will never grow old."[4]

Commercial performance

First Rose of Spring debuted at No. 5 on Billboard's Top Country Albums with 12,000 album equivalent units.[7]

Track listing

First Rose of Spring
No. Title Length
1. "First Rose of Spring"   3:41
2. "Blue Star"   4:35
3. "I'll Break Out Again Tonight"   2:49
4. "Don't Let the Old Man In"   3:09
5. "Just Bummin' Around"   3:15
6. "Our Song"   3:51
7. "We Are the Cowboys"   4:03
8. "Stealing Home"   3:42
9. "I'm the Only Hell My Mama Ever Raised"   4:11
10. "Love Just Laughed"   4:34
11. "Yesterday When I Was Young"   3:31
Total length:
 41:21

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.

Charts

Chart performance for First Rose of Spring
Chart (2020) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] 68
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] 8
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[10] 50
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[11] 43
Scottish Albums (OCC)[12] 9
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[13] 8
UK Albums (OCC)[14] 76
UK Country Albums (OCC)[15] 1
US Billboard 200[16] 49
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[17] 5

References

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  9. ↑ "Austriancharts.at – Willie Nelson – First Rose of Spring" (in German). Hung Medien.
  10. ↑ "Dutchcharts.nl – Willie Nelson – First Rose of Spring" (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  11. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Willie Nelson – First Rose of Spring" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts.
  12. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  13. ↑ "Swisscharts.com – Willie Nelson – First Rose of Spring". Hung Medien.
  14. ↑ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  15. ↑ "Official Country Artists Albums Chart Top 20". Official Charts Company.
  16. ↑ "Willie Nelson – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Willie Nelson.
  17. ↑ "Willie Nelson – Chart history" Billboard Top Country Albums for Willie Nelson.

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