

There’s help from generations of friends including Ray Price, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Crow and Snoop Dogg plus sons Micah and, especially, Lukas Nelson. They just don’t respect peace anymore.”) as he goes from 1940s country (“My Window Faces the South,” “Cold War with You”) to Coldplay’s “The Scientist” and Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe.”

The iconic Texan lets us know where he stands (“Come on back, Jesus, and pick up John Wayne on the way … It’s time to take off the gloves. 1 with “This Ole House,” Nelson – still prolific at 79 – can view mortality with humor (“Roll me up and smoke me when I die”).
