Archive for July, 2010
Willie Nelson in San Francisco (2008)
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Ancient History
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Willie Nelson’s Country Music
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Country Music – 2010 (Rounder)
Willie Nelson
http://news.cnet.com
by Steve Guttenberg
Willie Nelson sings country music
Willie Nelson sings country music, and, and that’s pretty much all you need to know. Song selection never falters, but “Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down” is stunningly beautiful, thanks to the no-frills, utterly honest sound of Nelson’s vocals and guitar.
“Country Music” was recorded in Nashville, Tenn., and produced by T Bone Burnett. This record is an understated gem, so what you get is just the sound of Nelson, surrounded by his pick of great pickers. What’s not to like?
Willie Nelson Picks of the Day: Europe and UK 2010
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Thanks to Budrock “The Illuminator” Prewitt for sharing these guitar picks from the 2010 European tour. What a beautiful set of guitar picks.
About the picks, Buddy wrote:
These picks were done by the Guthrie Thomas Company and graphic design by Zak Wilson. The pictures were taken by me.The Gutherie Thomas Company prints picks for all occasions andyou don’t have to order 10 gross like we do. He will print your design on 1 or 1,000.Visit his website for more details http://www.gtstrings.com/Zak Wilson is an artist who works out of Berkeley, California. You can learn more about Zak at http://www.zakwilson.com/
Guitar for Vets, at PremierGuitars.com
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Alan Harrison, E6 Boatswains Mate 1st Class, is a 21-year US Navy veteran who’s taking part in the Guitars for Vets program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Photo by Tim Evans
www.premierguitar.com
by Elianne Halbersberg
In the time it takes to read this story, another US serviceman or servicewoman will lose their life. It won’t be to an IED on the battlefields of Iraq or Afghanistan. It will be to suicide on the battlefield of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and depression—right here at home. Every day, 19 soldiers take their own lives. Fifty percent of our homeless population is made up of veterans, and more than 250,000 veterans now suffer from PTSD. A 2004 Department of Defense study estimates that 17 to 20 percent of soldiers returning from Iraq “suffer from major depression, generalized anxiety, or PTSD.” And according to a 2008 report cited in Tears of a Warrior: A Family’s Story of Combat and Living with PTSD—a book the Veterans Administration uses in its PTSD treatment program— roughly 40,000 troops have been diagnosed since 2003.
It’s easy to slap a “Support Our Troops” magnet on the back of a vehicle to show solidarity in times of deployment, but where is that support when these men and women come home physically and emotionally broken? Where do they turn when society is not informed or empathetic enough to understand their state of mind, or when they are shamed into silence by the stigma of “mental illness”?
These are crucial questions too often left both unasked and unanswered. However, two guitarists with their hearts in the right place are doing their best to make a difference. Guitar instructor Patrick Nettesheim and guitar-playing Vietnam War veteran Dan Van Buskirk decided to take matters into their own hands by creating Guitars for Vets (G4V), a unique form of music therapy they’re taking to VA medical centers.
Founded in 2008, Guitars for Vets is a nonprofit that provides six free, one-on-one guitar lessons and a new acoustic guitar to veterans in recovery. Its mission is simple: Turn the guitar into a source of healing, communication, and self-expression. Veterans enrolled in the program receive their own new Oscar Schmidt acoustic guitar at their sixth lesson, and thereafter they can continue learning through group lessons. G4V began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but has chapters in several other states—as well as one in Afghanistan—and it’s receiving requests from VA centers across the country. Six strings at a time, it’s working miracles
Willie Nelson, on Willie Nelson Boulevard, Austin, TX
Saturday, July 31st, 2010Last May the City of Austin honored home town hero Willie Nelson by naming a downtown street after him. The Austin City Council voted to change the name of Second Street to Willie Nelson Boulevard, as a tribute to Willie, who has lived in the Austin area nearly 40 years.
And here’s Willie Nelson, on Willie Nelson Boulevard, hard hat and all. This picture is so cool.
I wonder if anyone walked by him thinking he was a construction worker, and doing a double take, then telling his wife later, ‘I saw this guy today who looked just like Willie Nelson.”
Janis took this picture of the sign at night last month.
Willie Nelson & Family on Tour
Saturday, July 31st, 2010July 31, 2010 | Ives Concert Park | Danbury, CT |
August 1, 2010 | Community Theater Mayo Cntr | Morristown, NJ |
August 3, 2010 | Filene Center at Wolf Trap | Vienna, VA |
August 4, 2010 | Count Basie Theater | Red Bank, NJ |
August 5, 2010 | Community Arts Center | Williamsport, PA |
August 6, 2010 | Ceasars Circus Max Theatre | Atlantic City, NJ |
August 8, 2010 | Mountain Park | Holyoke, MA |
August 11, 2010 | Merrill Auditorium | Portland, ME |
August 12, 2010 | Cape Cod Melody Tent | Hyannis, MA |
August 13, 2010 | House of Blues | Boston, MA |
August 14, 2010 | Meadows Casino | Washington, PA |
August 15, 2010 | Seneca Allegany Casino | Salamanca, NY |
September 3, 2010 | Meadow Village Pavillion | Big Sky, MT |
September 4, 2010 | Snow King Amphitheater | Jackson, WY |
September 5, 2010 | Red Rocks Amphitheater | Morrison, CO |
September 7, 2010 | Botanical Gardens | Boise, ID |
September 8, 2010 | Knitting Factory | Reno, NV |
September 10, 2010 | Red Butte Gardens | Salt Lake City, UT |
September 11, 2010 | Cannery Casino Hotel | North Las Vegas, NV |
September 12, 2010 | Ironstone Amphitheater | Murphys, CA |
September 13, 2010 | Wente Vineyards | Livermore, CA |
September 14, 2010 | Hanford Fox Theater | Hanford, CA |
September 16, 2010 | Puyallup Fair | Puyallup, WA |
September 17, 2010 | Les Schwab Amphitheater | Bend, OR |
September 18, 2010 | Edgefield Manor | Troutdale, OR |
September 19, 2010 | Cuthbert Amphitheater | Eugene, OR |
September 20, 2010 | The Catalist | Santa Cruz, CA |
September 22, 2010 | The Mountain Winery | Saratoga, CA |
September 23, 2010 | Santa Barbara Bowl | Santa Barbara, CA |
September 24, 2010 | Greek Theater | Los Angeles, CA |
September 26, 2010 | Harrahs Rincon | Valley Center, CA |
October 15, 2010 | L Auberge du Lac Casino | Lake Charles, IA |
October 16, 2010 | L Auberge du Lac Casino | Lake Charles, LA |
October 25, 2010 | Grand Theater | Wausau, WI |
October 26 2010 | Potawatomi Casino | Milwaukee, WI |
October 28, 2010 | 7 Flags Event Center | Clive, IA |
October 29, 30, 2010 | Mystic Lake Casino | Prior Lake, MN |
November 1, 2010 | Rialto Square Theater | Joliet, IL |
Please always check with venue, or www.WillieNelson.com to confirm any thing listed here.
‘Time of the Preacher,’ by Willie Nelson
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Song Name: Time of the PreacherArtist Name: Willie NelsonAlbum: Red Headed StrangerSongwriter(s): W NelsonRelease Date: January 1, 1975Label: Legacy Recordings
Time of the Preacher
Lyrics and music by Willie Nelson
It was the time of the preacher when the story began
Of the choice of a lady and the love of a man
How he loved her so dearly, he went out of his mind
When she left him for someone, she’d left behind
An’ he cried like a baby
He screamed like a panther in the middle of the night
An’ he saddled his pony
An he went for a ride
It was the time of the preacher in the year of 01
Now the preachin’ is over and the lesson’s begun
But he could not forgive her
Though he tried and tried and tried
And the halls of his memories
Still echo her lies
He cried like a baby
He screamed like a panther in the middle of the night
An’ he saddled his pony
An he went for a ride
It was the time of the preacher in the year of 01
Now the lesson is over and the killin’s begun
It was the time of the preacher in the year of 01
Willie Nelson, Fort Worth, TX (7/4/04)
Friday, July 30th, 2010Joke of the Day
Friday, July 30th, 2010A man was walking home from the market, carrying a goose, a bucket with an anvil inside, and a chicken under each arm.
A woman came up and asked him for directions, and the man told her he was going that way, and why don’t they take a short cut through the alley?
The woman said, “Well, how do I know you won’t grab me when we get in that dark alley, and have your way with me?”
“Ma’am, how could I do that?” the man asked. “I’ve got a bucket with an anvil in it, a goose and two live chickens?”
“Well,” she said, “You put the goose on the ground, put the bucket on the goose, and put the Anvil on top the bucket. And I’ll hold the two chickens.”
Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, ‘Pancho and Lefty’
Friday, July 30th, 2010Willie Nelson at Canandaigua, NY (10/29/2010) (review)
Friday, July 30th, 2010www.rochestercitynewspaper.com
by Frank De Blase
In order to decipher Willie Nelson’s phrasing, you’d have to invent new punctuation: the slow-release comma, the mid-sentence period, the participle (with extra dangle), the endless ellipses… and the total eradication of exclamation points!
Nelson is and was beyond casual as he finally took the stage at CMAC Thursday night. Sporting a kicky new summer bob beneath a 10 gallon hat, the Redheaded Stranger and his modest band – bass, drums, piano, harmonica, and Nelson playing his trademark battered guitar – got things rolling with the classic “Whiskey River.” The crowd seemed ready to boogie and Nelson gave them plenty of opportunities to get rowdy (“Good Hearted Woman,” Jambalaya,” “On The Road Again”) but the night belonged to Nelson the balladeer.
The night’s ultra-syncopated version of “Crazy” proved how beautiful and resilient the tune is. Nelson would cram two lines into one measure, then casually let another phrase slip in just when you thought it was too late. Same goes for “Night Life,” “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain,” and “Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground.”
Read the entire article at:
http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/music/blog/2010/07/CONCERT-REVIEW-Willie-Nelson-Levon-Helm-at-CMAC/