This is really too representative of this list: a legend of American music (honestly a legend only within the boarders of the USA) covering standards of American pop music. Very self-centered. Truth is: this album is boring, that's the kind of boring music you'd have in a lounge bar or whatever. I started to write that it is not that bad, but after 4 songs it's driving me mad. I might not be in the right mood to listen to it, but this kind of chill stuff tends to make me angry.
Willie Nelson is probably best known for his authentic style of outlaw country music, so it was something of a surprise when he teamed up with Booker T Jones to record an album of great American songbook classics from Hoagy Carmichael to Irving Berlin to George Gershwin. The result is really rather affecting, with Nelson’s slightly quavery voice adding emotion to well worn songs with music from Jones on organ and piano complementing him perfectly. Just goes to show that you should never pigeonhole people into single genres.