Willie Nelson

By LindaLee Austin American Statesman April 28, 1988 Willie Nelson had been playing well in the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Pro-Am until the 10th hole, where he sliced his drive into the adjoining ninth fairway.  Said Willie, “Well, I found my game again.  I though I’d lost it there for awhile.”

By LindaLee Willie Nelson and his fans, in Nashville All photos: Chris Parton www.cmt.com by Chris Parton Willie Nelson is certainly a treasure trove of American music and a master interpreter of all styles. As if to prove this, he departed from his normal routine to play a concert dominated by cover son...

By LindaLee Applause April 1990 It’s been four years since Farm Aid came to Austin.  In between then and now however, the Farm Aid organization has been working hard and one of the results is the upcoming Farm Aid IV concert slated for April 7 in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Austinite Willie Nelson and singe...

By LindaLee www.losthighwayrecords.com Buy it today at your record store, or on Amazon Lost Highway track list. Maria (shut up and kiss me) Mendocino County Line Back to Earth The Harder They Come Over You Again You Don’t Know Me Lost Highway Beer for My Horses Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain Overtime I’m Sti...

By LindaLee Country Music Magazine February 1976 by Patrick Carr A segment of my Willie Nelson interview: “Willie, how are you doing on that?” “Were you a good preacher, Willie?” I ask. Somehow, when you really get serious about Willie Nelson, the answer is not at all surprising.

By LindaLee Willie Nelson was recently asked his thoughts on Norah Jones, who duets with him on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” from his recent standards collection, American Classic. He responded, “Norah is the most down-to-earth… natural person I’ve ever met. You never know if she has any idea how great s...

By LindaLee Friedman said more Texans should run vehicles on biodiesel, like his friends Willie Nelson and Neil Young have done with their tour buses for years. He suggests placing alternative fuel stations on highways every few hundred miles.

By LindaLee WINCHESTER — Tickets were scarce and the wait was long, but Willie Nelson gave Winchester back its money and its time. Nelson played several of his classics, including “Whiskey River,” “Georgia On My Mind” and “On the Road Again,” with some Janis Joplin and Hank Williams thrown in for good...

By LindaLee He had the crowd singing along during “Beer For My Horses,” and he had ‘em swaying in their seats during tender ballads such as “Funny How Time Slips Away,” “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” and “Always on My Mind.” http://www.the-leader.com/news/x1520367240/Crowd-gives-rave-reviews-at...

By LindaLee www.classictv.com is showing this Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis Two Men With The Blues Concert, from their 2007 Performance at the Jazz Center, in NYC free to view online.  Visit their site for many other great classic performances.  Many are free, or for a small fee.

By LindaLee Matthew Houck and Willie Nelson Matthew Houck, Farm Aid To Willie LB:   Is it hard for a singer-songwriter to cover songs by other artists like Willie Nelson? LB: When you are tour, are you performing Willie Nelson music, from ’To Willie’?

By LindaLee CNN: You have a DVD out called “Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis Play the Music of Ray Charles.” That’s jazz, country and R&B. What do those styles have in common? CNN: So, you’ve written that it’s not just African, it’s American. What about America gave rise to the blues?

By LindaLee A while ago, in Illinois, with some of his heroes — Neil Young, Merle Haggard, John Couger Mellencamp — Willie put together a musical cast that included B. B. King, Bob Dylan, Glenn Campbell, Carole King, Billy Joel, George Jones — a stupendous concert to raise money for America’s financial...

By LindaLee Photo by Farm Aid Pat/Miss Tex from Texas took this picture at Farm Aid 2009. Willie introduces Jamey Johnson. Willie Nelson and Dave Matthews perform Gravedigger. Then Willie performed a show with the Family Band. Thank you, Willie!

By LindaLee “I said, ‘Hey, that’s Willie,’” the afternoon drive-time DJ said. Willie, as in Willie Nelson, whose bus was parked at the hotel as the country legend rested up for his show that night at the Stranahan Theater. That’s Willie.   Call me a fan.

Artist: Willie Nelson Album: American Classic Review: Willie Nelson may be America's greatest balladeer, capable of making any song sound like a standard. For all his genius, Nelson can be kind of lazy, and this disc — a sequel of sorts to his beloved 1978 standards collection, Stardust —...

By LindaLee A Tale Out of Luck: A Novel  A Tale out of Luck by WIllie Nelson, with Mike Blakely Country singer, and national icon, Willie Nelson has teamed up with Mike Blakely to write A Tale out of Luck, a western novel with a bit of a mystery thrown into the mix.

The early 1960s were pivotal for Nelson, with three of his compositions hitting the country charts — “Hello Walls” (sung by Faron Young), “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker) and “Crazy” (Patsy Cline). After two albums for the independent Liberty ...

By LindaLee The interviews on the bus are appropiately set against the soundtrack of the road, with traffic sounds and honking horns.  Billy Bob interviews Mickey about how he got started in music, his first musical performance (he played the triangle — who knew?), and how he became part of the Willie...

By LindaLee Billy Bob and his band the Box Masters spent a month on the road with Willie Nelson & Family this spring, and Mickey would join the band on stage and play with them, before getting back to his regular job of playing harmonica with Willie Nelson and Family.

By LindaLee WHEREAS, Willie Nelson is the 2009 Texas State Musician; this legendary Texas performer was playing the guitar at the age of 6 and performing at 10; after establishing himself in Nashville as a hit songwriter, he returned to Texas and soon became world-famous as an interpreter of his own...

By LindaLee I relaxed and offered him a hit which he accepted gratefully. I think I told him what kind of weed it was and I know I told him this was the first time I was going to see Willie Nelson play even though I’d been a real fan for almost thirty years.       

 GA For example, Johnny Cash appears with his country group The Highwaymen — which also featured Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson — but is also photographed with the Rev. Billy Graham. In addition to his Web site, McGuire has also published a ...

By LindaLee http://www.dowagiacnews.com by Jennifer Inman     Three musical legends will be within a stone’s throw of our communities this summer. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp hit the Cove July 4 for a huge concert. Tickets for this historic event go on sale Saturday at the Coveleski Sta...

Greg loves old-school country (Not the absolute crap on the radio now, but real stuff like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, etc.). This reminded me of good times my dad and I shared when I was a boy, cruising the farm in his old ...

By LindaLee Matthew and his band will be part of the birthday celebrations at Willie’s Place Sirius/XM radio tomorrow, in honor of Willie’s 7th, and here is Willie talking about the band’s session recorded for Willie’s Place Sirius/XM right Here.**** Matthew Houck and his band Phosphorescent reco...

By LindaLee Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, by Joe Nick Patoski, is a massive 500-pager that traces Nelson’s life and career from his traumatic childhood and early performing career to fledgling songwriting hits like “Crazy” and “Hello Walls” to his days as country music’s first real hippie to the pla...

 RI He was particularly struck by the doggedness with which Nelson pursued a performing career when heavyweights such as Faron Young and Ray Price were telling him to stay home and be a songwriter. Meanwhile, no one was much interested in hearing his ...

BILLY BOB THORNTON has scrapped the remainder of his North American dates as support to WILLIE NELSON after fans booed him onstage at a Toronto show on Thursday night (09Apr09). The Oscar winner upset Canadian fans by appearing to attack them in a radio interview earlier this week (ends10...

By LindaLee The party is in full swing, and Rusty Spurs and his Cactus Cowboys (played by Johnny Bush and his band) play music while the guests dance,  when a young man runs into the ranch house and yells out that horse thieves have stolen all the horses. x

By LindaLee The documentary Amazing Grace: The Story of Willie Nelson includes interviews with some of Nelson’s closest friends, Turk Pipkin, Ray Price and a number of celebrities who’ve performed with Nelson - among them Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson and John Mellencamp. There’s also the rare...

News & Observer, NC A charter member of the 1970s "Outlaw Movement," Nelson has bucked the Nashville establishment and followed his muse to the nether regions of American music with albums as idiosyncratic as "Stardust" and his duet romp with Julio Iglesias. ...

By LindaLee The 75-year-old ‘outlaw’ country singer looks to some home-grown solutions to help President Obama fix the economic crisis http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk Willie Nelson has some advice for President Obama on how to fix the mess America has got itself into, and, just like the lyrics the gr...

By LindaLee Naked Willie is due March 17. I know, the “Naked Willie” thought is a bit off-putting. But the album title refers to the music, not to Nelson’s body. This concept came from Willie’s longtime harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, who was listening to early Nelson tracks on RCA recorded in Nashvil...

By LindaLee ALBANY — Willie Nelson couldn’t possibly play all his hits in one show, even a 2 1?2-hour show like Sunday night’s at the Palace. But veteran fans of Nelson don’t need to hear his hits; most are happy to hear the American icon sing anything.

By LindaLee Willie Nelson teamed up with country swing band Asleep at the Wheel and transformed a superb recording, decades in the making, into a first-rate stage performance. The dream child of famed producer Jerry Wexler and Willie Nelson, “Willie and the Wheel” is on tour in support of the album of...

By LindaLee If you’ve attended a solo Willie Nelson show you know what’s coming. Just as sure as a Texas Summer is hot and that your enchiladas at El Fenix will begin with chips and salsa, the Redheaded Stranger will deliver a canon of some of the best and most loved American songs spanning his 40 year care...

By LindaLee http://www.phyllisbrock.com . Denver singer/songwriter Phyllis Brock sings, “I Dreamed I Danced With Willie Nelson,” on her album ‘Shadows on the Moon.’ I Dreamed I Danced With Willie Nelson  I dreamed I danced with Willie Nelson, Up in them Bluegrass Hills. He took my hand and asked me to da...

By Stephen M. Deusner But the tracklist shows a real knowledge of Willie's songbook, disregarding obvious choices for offbeat catalogue cuts like "Reasons to Quit". And damned if Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck doesn't do right by the tune. He may be transporting the song across state lines, but he treats it w...

By Psychic Chic I got my Willie Nelson CD rolling around in my brain as I hum his version of "On the Road Again" because that's exactly what THIS Psychic (me) is feeling about the current situation. So, if you've got any old road maps in your glove compartment (I hope you know what that means), throw them out. Re...

By Daniel Kreps • The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach Announces Solo Debut, Tour Willie Nelson plots a tour of the western United States, the Black Keys schedule a quintet of shows and moe. jams on into 2009. Follow the jump for the complete set of tour dates. Willie Nelson November 21 - Jonesboro, AR @ ASU Convocatio...

By LindaLee You’ve got to go back to ‘Crazy,’ Patsy Cline. How could you top that one? Also, Ray Price with ‘Night Life,’ Roy Orbison, ‘Pretty Paper’; Billy Walker, ‘Funny How Time Slips Away’; Faron Young, ‘Hello Walls.’ Those performances … there’s just no way to beat ‘em.I just heard a Hank Williams cl...

By localbands@chron.com (Sara Cress / Joey Guerra) Lone Star favorites sharing stage time include Robert Earl Keen, Jack Ingram, Los Lonely Boys, Kevin Fowler, Kelly Willis, the Weary Boys, Sunny Sweeney and the Eli Young Band. Texas has needed its own event like this for a long time," Fowler said. "I think this may be the biggest country mus...

By KEXP HONEY! Speaking of influences, the AP reports that country outlaw and Ryan Adams collaborator Willie Nelson won’t be cooling his heels in the slammer for his misdemeanor of marijuana possession, to which he’d pleaded guilty in Louisiana last year.Unfortunately, The Cooper Temple Cla...

By Big Geez Although most of the songs are vintage classics, some are better known than others, and those would include among them Ray's performance of Harlan Howard's, "Heartaches By The Number", which also features guest artist Vince Gill, and "Why Me Lord", a delicious version with Willie and R...

By Amanda Trimble Just a few days before wrapping up their Last of the Breed tour, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Sixties country star Ray Price played a sold-out gig at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. Seeing these three on one stage (accompanied by backing band Asleep at the Wheel) is a once-in-a-li...

By Jim Parsons Good morning, Houston. We don't know about you, but we at Houstonist have long been fans of Willie Nelson. And so, apparently, has local rapper/promoter/jeweler Paul Wall: Wall tells MTV News that he booked time at Nelson's studio to record his new album, Get Money, Stay True because he tho...

AUSTIN, Texas He has a seemingly endless playlist, his own brand of alternative fuel and a country club. Now Willie Nelson has something else his own record company.

By Irina Ageyeva Oh happy day! Ben & Jerry are presenting us with a whole new flavor to drool over. Yes folks, today marks the street date for Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler (peach ice cream with cinnamon sugar shortbread pieces). With the new creation, Willie joins the ranks of progressive pop c...

Willie Nelson arrested for having weed and mushrooms when his tour bus was pulled over in Beaux Bridge Louisiana. Um…dude. Did anyone notice that it was WILLIE FUCKING NELSON? MOVIES: TV: Bears slide past Minnesota at home, next up, Seattle, without Shaun Alexander.