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Tougher Than Leather (Willie Nelson album)

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panned the album, calling it "country music in name only." He elaborated that whereas Nelson's earlier songs were honest ballads about concrete situations which listeners could relate to,
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gave the album a mixed review, saying the performance by Nelson's touring band was "robust" yet many of the songs were mediocre and "the album simply doesn't hold together thematically".
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is built around high-handed philosophical preaching. He also criticized the lack of variety in the music, describing it as "utterly bland and homogeneous."
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Sartwell, Crispen (June 1983). "Tougher Than Leather review".
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All tracks composed by Willie Nelson, except where indicated
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Studio album
Willie Nelson
Pedernales Recording
Spicewood, Texas
Genre
Country
Label
Columbia
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Willie Nelson
The Winning Hand
Without a Song
Singles
Little Old Fashioned Karma
country
Willie Nelson
Red Headed Stranger
Allmusic
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Allmusic
Little Old Fashioned Karma
The Beer Barrel Polka
Bobbie Nelson
guitar
arranger
vocals
Grady Martin
Jody Payne
bass guitar

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