Willie Nelson

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 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 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 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.

By LindaLee There Will Always Be A Small Time By Kerry Doole www.exclaim.ca Kerry Doole:  Your songs are being performed by other artists but you also enjoy covering the songs of your peers. Corin Raymound:  That is how my heroes operated, the outlaws that came out of Nashville and those guys from Texas,...

By LindaLee Nelson wore a black leather cowboy hat, his long gray braid trailing out. He banged on an acoustic guitar that was so beat-up it seemed his fingers had worn off the body’s finish. He smiled, waved and pointed at the crowd as he rolled through the set list, which included “On the Road Again,” “Go...

By LindaLee “Crazy” was one of the songs that really built your reputation in Nashville. How did you feel when Patsy Cline cut it? I loved Ray Price’s “Night Life.” I liked Roy Orbison’s “Pretty Paper” Patsy Cline’s “Crazy.” Those stand out. Faron Young’s “Hello Walls.”

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 Country Style by Linda Cain Willie poses for pictures and a teenaged cowboy approaches the stage from below in the empty auditorium  He hollers to get Willie’s attention.  Willie sees him, smiles and waves.  “Hey, Willie!  We love you man” is the response.

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...

By LindaLee And it also doesn’t look like he’s using a stunt double. It’s actually Willie Nelson beating the shit out of five guys like he’s the ultimate bad ass).  I’m kind of surprised, though, that the movie doesn’t have Will kicking ass earlier in the movie, like in the bar he’s always seen hanging out...

Radio warrants a top-of-the-story reference in a review of a concert to which he contributed nothing of musical value, and which should – and soon will be – dedicated to the real stars, headliner Willie Nelson and country music veteran Ray Price. ...

By LindaLee When Willie arrived in the country music capital nearly 50 years ago, the prevailing trend was the Nashville Sound. Spearheaded by producers such as Owen Bradley and Chet Atkins, the Nashville Sound was an attempt to sophisticate country music by moving the genre away from its honky tonk...

By LindaLee Their collaboration goes public with NAKED WILLIE, a 17-track collection of songs written and recorded  by an aspiring young songwriter named Willie Nelson for RCA Records in Nashville, between 1966 and 1970.  NAKED WILLIE lays bare his original vision of those songs for the first time...

By LindaLee Paul W. Dennis www.the9513.com   Being among the oldest contributors to this blog (born in 52), I am one of the few who remembers hearing Willie Nelson’s recordings on the radio during the period he recorded for RCA (1965-70). Even though he had no major hits while on RCA, Willie was greatly res...

 TX And it did work for a lot of the artists like Jim Reeves and Ray Price. It just didn't work for Willie. RO: On another topic, you're the one player from the Family Band that Willie does use on a lot of records and side projects that the Jazz at Lincoln ... Sun Spin: Willie Nelson JamBase

By LindaLee 2009 Winner:  Joe Nick Patoski Review  Patoski pulls together a rich narrative that keenly comprehends Nelson’s artistic and geographical perambulations. The author is especially fine in the early going, colorfully recalling Willie’s many years on the beer-joint circuit and the ca...

By LindaLee Five Great Willie Covers Crazy (Patsy Cline): The standard-bearer, the best. Willie wrote it, Patsy nailed it. Dazzling. Hands on the Wheel (Norah Jones): Search out the YouTube live clip of Jones purring this yearning heartbreaker from the Red Headed Stranger album.

By LindaLee The great reviews for Willie Nelson’s, ‘Naked’ album, due in stores tomorrow, keep coming in. Here’s one from Matt Bjorke, of www.roughstock.com, who likes it as much as I do: www.roughstock.com “After “Crazy” became a success and Willie had recorded sides for a few Liberty Records albums an...

By LindaLee Naked Willie is that rarest case where an artist reimagining his work actually does — work that is. In un-producing the original recordings, it also reveals that Willie Nelson was writing world-class songs long before Red Headed Stranger, even if it didn’t always show up in the way that th...

 OH This has been particularly true in the past year as the icon's 75th birthday spawned numerous retrospectives and compilations, including the 30th Anniversary Legacy edition of Stardust and the four-disc career retrospective One Hell Of A Ride. ...

Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson, Naked and Clothed Houston Press Sun Spin: Willie Nelson JamBase Music Review: Willie Nelson - Naked Willie Blogcritics.org

By LindaLee Miles and Miles of Texas (w/Asleep at the WheelMake the World Go Away (Ray Price)For the Good Times (Ray Price)Take Me Back to Tulsa (Merle Haggard)Silver Wings (Merle Haggard)That’s the Way Love Goes (Merle Haggard)Okie From Miskogee (Merle Haggard)Pancho and Lefty (Willie Nelson,...

By LindaLee Willie was a one-man-band on “Angels Flying Low to the Ground,” hands flying over his holy old guitar. “On the Road Again” brought the band back in again as equals, and he took on Benson in a funky guitar face-off on “Move It On Over” that rivaled George Thorogood’s rowdy version of the Hank Wi...

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 For exactly one hour and a half, the irresistible 75-year-old and his trusty, well-worn, well-known, old Martin guitar named Trigger played song after hit song from Nelson’s six-decade career: “Still Is Still Moving to Me,” “Whiskey for My Men, Beer for My Horses,” “Funny How Time Slip...

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 There he is: a cartoon in King Of The Hill (”That show’s real funny. It goes back to that old joke they had cartoons about, like: ‘I heard Willie Nelson got run over and he’s playing “On The Road Again!”‘”), a character in Kinky Friedman’s novel Roadkill, a cowboy in too many movies to mention (...

By Brody Vercher In the latest Rolling Stone, Vanessa Grigoriadis notes that aside from Willie Nelson’s project with Asleep at the Wheel, he has another album slated for early ‘09 titled Naked Willie. It’ll be produced by his harmonica player, Mickey Raphael, and consist of his RCA recordings from 1966 t...

 OH - Sony/BMG (through their Legacy program) has returned the classic Red Headed Stranger album by Willie Nelson to its original vinyl form. ...

By LindaLee WN:  Thank you. Bikers and Texas — An Interview With Willie Nelson Easyriders December 1979 by Tex When I got the call from our wandering photographer, Billy Tinney, I was skeptical.  He was in Las Vegas and ran down some off-the-wall story about bumping into Willie Nelson and mentioning th...

By LindaLee The CD includes affecting duets with Norah Jones (”Dreams Come Ture”), Lucinda WIlliams (”Over TIme”) and Willie’s 35-year-old daughter Paula Nelson (”Be That as It May”), none of which mention cowboys or whiskey.  Even Nelson’s tribute to his home state, “Texas,” is relatively subdu...

By LindaLee Willie Nelson undoubtedly still has “it.” Maybe it is that he doesn’t have a big persona, maybe it’s that he still uses “Trigger,” his legendary and well used hole-where-a-pick-guard-should-be guitar, or maybe it is just that Willie Nelson is a living definition of “it.”

By LindaLee photo by Robert Youngs For those uninitiated in the country music scene, the good folks at Miller Auditorium offered a crash course in the genre on Sunday night, when Billy Bob Thorton and the Boxmasters opened up for country music legend Willie Nelson. photo by Robert Youngs

By LindaLee Labeled a country music artist, he has made an album of jazz standards, a reggae album, and partnered with jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis on his most recent release. Nelson has also performed with everyone from U2 to Julio Iglesias, making him a difficult performer to pigeonhole.

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 Jason Bargas Texas has produced more than its fair share of outstanding singer/songwriters like Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, Lyle Lovett and a long laundry list of others. Guy Forsyth is of the same ilk and is bringing his unique, eclectic sound to Houston on Saturday night.

By LindaLee Beyong Golf, Nelson has kindly agreed to talk to Goldmine about his newest DVD release, Willie Nelson:  Live in Amsterdam.  (Image Enterainment) and a few other topics, including his most recent album, Rainbow connection (Island Records) and his forthcoming relase, The Great Divide.

By Scott Parker Nelson has covered everything including reggae (yeah, really) but one of his biggest albums was Stardust (1978), an album of standards from the Great American Songbook, that helped to define what Nelson does best: blend many varied ...

By Autoroute After 22 years, the annual Farm Aid benefit concert finally made its way move," Willie Nelson said at a press conference early yesterday. "But singer's solo record ("Gravedigger") and a cover of Daniel Lanois' "The reprising a Farm Aid duet from years ago. But at this event, no song of

By El Bicho Picture, if you will, a lonely honky-tonk on the outskirts of town, a glow from inside draws you near as the sound of clinking beer bottles and laughter calls your name. As you get closer the music from jukebox becomes clearer, three legendary country baritones stand out and shine like the N...

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...