Willie Nelson has been a living legend for longer than I have been alive, and I will try not to let his continued productivity make me feel bad. In addition to a recent collaboration with Orville Peck, Nelson released The border — by some estimates his 75th album of new solo material and his 151st album overall — and has now announced his next LP.

Mainly a cover album, The last leaf on the tree will be released on November 1 via Sony Music. It was produced by Nelson’s son Micah and features two new original songs, one of which was co-written by father and son. According to Micah, he took a “sculpting approach” that involves “just throwing the clay on the record and stepping back, then maybe adding a little bit more and then maybe chipping away down here and building the tracks that way,” he explained, playing more than two dozen instruments on the recording himself.

As mentioned, it also features the icon’s interpretations of tracks from his offspring’s Particle Kid project, as well as Neil Young, Beck, the Flaming Lips, Keith Richards, Nina Simone, Warren Zevon, Sunny War and Tom Waits. The first taste of the record comes today with Nelson’s take on Waits’ “Last Leaf” from the 2011 album Bad like mewhich you can hear below.

As for the collection’s themes, the younger Nelson added that his father’s struggle with his mortality is at the heart of it all. “There are little side quests, but that’s the common thread – facing death with dignity.”

The last leaf on the tree:

1. Last Leaf (Tom Waits cover)
2. If it wasn’t broken (Sunny War cover)
3. Lost Cause (Beck cover)
4. Come Ye (Nina Simone cover)
5. Keep Me in Your Heart (Warren Zevon cover)
6. Robbed Blind (Keith Richards cover)
7. “House where nobody lives” (Tom Waits cover)
8. Are you ready for country? (Cover by Neil Young)
9. Do you understand?? (Cover by Flaming Lips)
10. Wheels (Particle Kid cover)
11. Broken Arrow (Neil Young cover)
12. Color of Sound
13. The Spirit

Pre-order The last leaf on the tree.