{"id":35749,"date":"2026-03-19T07:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/uncategorized\/2026\/03\/48208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T07:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:45:44","slug":"48208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/48208\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson To Release 79th Album In May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong>\u00a0will release his 79th album\u00a0<em>Dream Chaser,<\/em>\u00a0on May 29th, just before his 93rd birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title track, available now, explores aging and reflection with lyrics including &#8220;Today I looked in the mirror\/And I caught me by surprise.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album also features &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Read Your Mind,&#8221; co-written with Bob Dylan and Buddy Cannon. Willie told GQ&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;[We] were talking a while back about writing a song together. He had an idea of &#8216;I can&#8217;t read your mind.&#8217; We started with, &#8216;I can&#8217;t read your mind. The letters are too small.&#8217; I handed that over to Buddy, and he took it and turned it into a good song. That&#8217;s pretty rare with Bob.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This marks Nelson and Dylan&#8217;s first songwriting collaboration since 1993&#8217;s &#8220;Heartland.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nelson begins touring in April and is slowly rolling out more dates for this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Willie Nelson - Dream Chaser\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kiEn2cyefP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson\u00a0will release his 79th album\u00a0Dream Chaser,\u00a0on May 29th, just before his 93rd birthday. The title track, available now, explores aging and reflection with lyrics including &#8220;Today I looked in the mirror\/And I caught me by surprise.&#8221; The album also features &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Read Your Mind,&#8221; co-written with Bob Dylan and Buddy Cannon. Willie told","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":32311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[8454,10595,10596,5233,10597,3633],"class_list":["post-35749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bob-dylan","tag-buddy-cannon","tag-dream-chaser","tag-heartland","tag-i-cant-read-your-mind","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 19:00:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/48208\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35750,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35749\/revisions\/35750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}