Willie Nelson Announces 'Dream Chaser' Album Featuring a Bob Dylan Collaboration

Willie Nelson continues his prolific career, announcing his 156th studio album, Dream Chaser. Since his debut in 1962 with ...And Then I Wrote, Nelson has consistently delivered new music, and this year is no exception. The album, set to drop on May 29 via Legacy Records, includes a surprising collaboration with long-time friend and fellow music icon, Bob Dylan.

The new album features a co-writing credit with Dylan on the track "I Can’t Read Your Mind." This isn't the first time the two legends have worked together; they previously recorded "Heartland" for Nelson's 1993 album, Across the Borderline.

In a 2025 New Yorker profile, Dylan offered high praise for Nelson:

> “It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything. How can you make sense of him? How would you define the indefinable or the unfathomable? What is there to say? Ancient Viking Soul? Master Builder of the Impossible? Patron poet of people who never quite fit in and don’t much care to? Moonshine Philosopher? Tumbleweed singer with a PhD? Red Bandana troubadour, braids like twin ropes lassoing eternity? What do you say about a guy who plays an old, battered guitar that he treats like it’s the last loyal dog in the universe? Cowboy apparition, writes songs with holes that you can crawl through to escape from something. Voice like a warm porchlight left on for wanderers who kissed goodbye too soon or stayed too long. I guess you can say all that. But it really doesn’t tell you a lot or explain anything about Willie. Personally speaking I’ve always known him to be kind, generous, tolerant and understanding of human feebleness, a benefactor, a father and a friend. He’s like the invisible air. He’s high and low. He’s in harmony with nature. And that’s what makes him Willie.”

Before the album release, Nelson will embark on a brief US tour starting April 22.
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Read our review of Nelson’s 2025 album Oh What a Beautiful World.

Dream Chaser Tracklist:

1. Dream Chaser (Written by Buddy Cannon, Bobby Tomberlin & Willie Nelson)
2. Fly Away (Written by Buddy Cannon & Bobby Whitlock)
3. We’d Make A Good Movie (Written by Willie Nelson, Buddy Cannon & Bobby Tomberlin)
4. I Can’t Read Your Mind (Written by Willie Nelson, Buddy Cannon & Bob Dylan)
5. Whiskey Wants Me To (Written by Buddy Cannon & Bobby Tomberlin)
6. Wonder What I’m Gonna Do (Written by Willie Nelson & Buddy Cannon)
7. After All (Written by Willie Nelson & Buddy Cannon)
8. Love Overdue (Written by Mickey Raphael, Donald W. Poythress & Anna Lisa Graham)
9. I Don’t Think I’ve Cried Today (Written by Buddy Cannon, Bobby Tomberlin & Willie Nelson)
10. Developing My Pictures (Written by Earl Montgomery)
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