Countryman, is in fact Willie's long-awaited reggae album, and it's in stores now. Not only is it out, but there are two versions of it. One version features a large marijuana leaf on the cover and the other shows a more nondescript tree. From what I understand, the music is the same on both versions, but Wal-Mart or some other evil bastard corporation objected to the cover. Hey what can you do . . . kids are easily influenced by their heroes, and we all know how much today's youth love Willie Nelson.

Putting my ridiculous censorship banter aside, lets get to the big question. What exactly does a Willie Nelson reggae album sound like? Well to be honest, it sounds more or less like a Willie Nelson album with a little of that 1-2 1-2 reggae backbeat mixed in. Willie and Trigger (that's his guitar) sound like Willie and Trigger, and it's pretty hard for them to not sound great . . . in fact I don't think I ever have heard them not sound great.

The song selection is fifty-fifty. There are tunes you've heard Willie do before in different arrangements like "Darkness on the Face of the Earth" and "I've Just Destroyed the World", and there are traditional reggae tunes, like Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" and "Sitting In Limbo." Then there's "Worried Man" which is a little of both. It's a tune you've heard Willie do before, with Cash back on the Storytellers episode for instance, but this time he's doing it with one of the biggest names in Reggae, Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals.

Do I need to tell you it's great . . . nah you knew that already.

Additional great tunes that Wal-Mart will allow you to hear if you promise not to think about smoking pot at the time: "Undo the Right," "Something To Think About."