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Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, today released a new take on Willie Nelson’s “Pretty Paper” featuring Brandon Coleman of The Red Clay Strays. The track is available on all DSPs today, Friday, November 6. Listen to the track HERE.
Willie Nelson revisits his classic holiday original “Pretty Paper” this year with a new twist. Brandon Coleman of The Red Clay Strays adds his distinctive touch to Nelson’s original song, continuing the artists’ connection after The Red Clay Strays performed at the 2024 Luck Reunion on Willie’s ranch and joined Willie’s Outlaw Music Festival in summer 2025. The full original 1979 Pretty Paper album can be heard HERE, and the new 2026 version can be heard HERE.
Also, coming November 10th is Willie’s newest book, THE LAST LEAF: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity–and My Longest Love Affair. Willie shares his well-earned wisdom about reaching an astonishing creative flourishing, and not coincidentally, an even deeper union with the love of his life, Annie.
Willie Nelson is 93, and he has not been slowing down. In the past twelve years, he has recorded twenty-one new studio albums, written more than fifty new songs and seven books, and headlined over eight hundred live shows. What has been going on? He’s not going to get mawkish about it, but he does have some thoughts. In THE LAST LEAF: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity–and My Longest Love Affair (on sale November 10), Nelson opens up wide and brings us in touch with the same inexhaustible, vital stream of energy he has learned how to stay tapped into.
“Looking to the future as I look to the past,” Nelson writes, “I stay in the present.” That captures the spirt of The Last Leaf: Forging ahead, it also flashes back to life-altering moments, including facing almost-certain death during COVID and what he gained from that.
Woven into recollections of his own life as an artist is the beautiful and often hilarious account of how the fiery spirit of Annie, his wife and best friend for four decades, has matched his own. Much has been written about the early spark of romance, the thrill of first falling in love. In The Last Leaf we get, beautifully, the other end of the story—the abiding of that love, even its deepening, into the pure harmony of sustained partnership.
In his most reflective book yet, Nelson opens up about the moments that have shaped his remarkable life—and what comes next.
Listen to Pretty Paper and read THE LAST LEAF: Reflections on Late-Life Creativity–and My Longest Love Affair this holiday season.
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