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Willie Nelson duets with Norah Jones on her new album, ‘Featuring’

Saturday, August 21st, 2010

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Over the last decade, Norah Jones has become known for her ace collaborations with everyone from the Foo Fighters to Ray Charles. Now, the singer-songwriter will collect her best duets on a new disc titled …Featuring, which hits stores November 2nd. The disc features Jones’ collaborations with the Willie Nelson, OutKast, Talib Kweli, Dolly Parton, Ryan Adams, M. Ward and more. (Full track listing below.) Also included: the new track “Little Lou, Ugly Jack, Prophet John,” which Jones cut with Belle and Sebastian for the Scottish group’s forthcoming fall album. “It’s so exciting and flattering and fun when I get asked to sing with somebody that I admire,” Jones said in a statement. “It takes you a little bit out of your comfort zone when you’re doing something with another artist. You don’t know what to expect — it’s kind of like being a little kid and having a playdate.”

Jones will spend the rest of the summer on the road for the west coast leg of her tour before reuniting with Willie Nelson at Farm Aid on October 2nd in Milwaukee, WI. Jones is also slated to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on August 31st.

…Featuring Track List:
“Love Me,” The Little Willies
“Virginia Moon,” The Foo Fighters feat. Norah Jones
“Turn Them,” Sean Bones feat. Norah Jones
“Baby It’s Cold Outside,” Willie Nelson feat. Norah Jones
“Bull Rider,” Norah Jones and Sasha Dobson
“Ruler Of My Heart,” Dirty Dozen Brass Band feat. Norah Jones
“The Best Part,” El Madmo
“Take Off Your Cool,” OutKast feat. Norah Jones
“Life Is Better,” Q-Tip feat. Norah Jones
“Soon The New Day,” Talib Kweli feat. Norah Jones
“Little Lou, Prophet Jack, Ugly John,” Belle and Sebastian feat. Norah Jones
“Here We Go Again,” Ray Charles feat. Norah Jones
“Loretta,” Norah Jones feat. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
“Dear John,” Ryan Adams feat. Norah Jones
“Creepin’ In,” Norah Jones feat. Dolly Parton
“Court & Spark,” Herbie Hancock feat. Norah Jones
“More Than This,” Charlie Hunter feat. Norah Jones
“Blue Bayou,” Norah Jones feat. M. Ward


Not on her album, but don’t forget the fan favorite, ‘Worlitzer Prize.’

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Watch Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, from NYC (2007)

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

ClassicalTV is re-playing the remarkable concert with Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, from New York City in January 2007, free of charge.  Enlarge it to full screen for your viewing enjoyment.

When two musical icons like Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis join forces for a concert you know you’re in for something special and this show delivers exactly that. Filmed over two nights in January 2007 at New York’s Lincoln Center, this magical show sees Willie and Wynton combine their unique talents in a blend of jazz, blues and country music which takes in Willie Nelson originals, traditional songs and standards by the likes of Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Reed and Duke Ellington.

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Willie Nelson sings on “Dylan Country”

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

18 May 2004

1  Nashville Skyline Rag  Earl Scruggs, Bob Dylan  
2  Girl from the North Country  Country Gentlemen   
3  Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right  Waylon Jennings  
4  It Ain’t Me Babe  Johnny Cash 
5  I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight  Williams, Hank Jr.  
6  Love Minus Zero/No Limit  Buck Owens 
7  You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere  Byrds   
8  If Not for You  Glen Campbell 
9  Subterranean Homesick Blues  Tim OBrien 
10  Restless Farewell  Peter Ostroushko  
11  Heartland  Willie Nelson
12  When I Paint My Masterpiece  Emmylou Harris  
13  Sign on the Window  Jennifer Warnes 
14  One Too Many Mornings  Walker, Jerry Jeff  
15  Boots of Spanish Leather  Nanci Griffith  
16  Forever Young  Kitty Wells

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Willie Nelson and Larry Campbell

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

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More great photos taken by Willie Nelson fans Lane and Katrina. Here, Willie is with Larry Campbell, and the Levon Helm Band.

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Willie Nelson and the Levon Helm Band, NYC

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

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Thanks to Lane and Katrina for their wonderful pictures from the Willie Nelson & Family show.

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Willie Nelson sings on new Doobie Brothers album, ‘World Gone Crazy’ (out in September)

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Willie Nelson appears on the upcoming Doobie Brothers album, set to be released in September:  World Gone Crazy

1. A Brighter Day
2. Chateau
3. Nobody
4. World Gone Crazy
5. Far From Home
6. Young Man’s Game
7. Don’t Say Goodbye (featuring Michael McDonald)
8. My Baby
9. Old Juarez
10. I Know We Won (featuring Willie Nelson)
11. Law Dogs
12. Little Prayer
13. New York Dream

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by:  Gary Graff

The Doobie Brothers have reunited with 70s producer Ted Templeman for their first new album in a decade, “World Gone Crazy,” which is due out on Sept. 28.

Singer-guitarist Tom Johnston tells Billboard.com that the group and Templeman — who helmed the group’s first 10 albums, including “Toulouse Street,” “The Captain and Me,” “Takin’ It to the Streets” and “Minute By Minute” — have been working on the disc for the past three years “off and on, between touring and everything. We were going in the studio and then we’d be on the road, get back in the studio and then be on the road again. It was kind of like the old days, only not as hectic because we…don’t play as many shows as we used to.” The set will be released by the new House of Rock label.

Johnston describes the album as “more musically diverse than anything we’ve done in the past. We cover a kind of large area.” The title track, in fact, was inspired by New Orleans post-Katrina and incorporates Crescent City rhythms and horn charts. “I’ve got another one that’s sort of a funk shuffle type of thing,” Johnston says, “and then I’ve got, for lack of a better word, an English kind of rock ‘n’ roll tune that’s kind of like what I always think of when I think of a pub, that old body rock ‘n’ roll feel.” Band mate Patrick Simmons, according to Johnston, contributed “some pickin’ stuff” including “We Won,” which features a guest appearance by Willie Nelson.

At Templeman’s suggestion the Doobies also re-recorded “Nobody,” the lead-off track from the group’s self-titled 1971 debut album, which will be “World Gone Crazy’s” first single. “It does have a different treatment now than it used to, a different feel,” Johnston says. The Doobies have already filmed a video for “Nobody.”

Johnston says working with Templeman was also different this time around than it was earlier in the group’s career. Back then he was more of a director as well as a producer, and now that’s not really quite the case,” Johnston explains. “Everybody’s matured a great deal in songwriting and playing…so this time i was more like we produced with Ted as much as he produced us. It was kind of a collaboration, and it worked very well.”

The Doobies are planning to film a second video in August, after the group finishes its current tour with Chicago, with a headlining run planned to follow the album’s release. “It’s kind of like starting all over again,” Johnston says. “We haven’t had an album out for 10 years; the last one (‘Sibling Rivalry’) didn’t do that much, so we haven’t had one that people really know since ‘Brotherhood’ in ’91 and, before that, ‘Cycles’ that had ‘The Doctor’ on it. So it is kind of like starting all over again and getting in the new way that music is being marketed and distributed and sold these days, which has changed so dramatically. So we’ll see how we can fit into that.”

This is the not the song Willie Nelson sings with the band on. It’s got lots of great vintage Doobie Brothers footage.

See more pictures of the Doobie Brothers, and read the entire article at Billboard.com.

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Willie Nelson and the Levon Helm Band, @ Radio City Music Hall (7/28/10)

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

“AMAZING show!” — Lane

Thanks to Lane, for sending this picture from the Willie Nelson & Family show at Radio City Music Show last week.

Lane got to see Further at Madison Square Garden the same week and got to meet Bob Weir, the guy is living large.

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Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, ‘Pancho and Lefty’

Friday, July 30th, 2010

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Watch Willie Nelson in ‘Stagecoach’ Movie this week on television

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

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CMT will air the movie, Stagecoach on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at 10 p.m.  The movie stars Willie Nelson, and his Highwaymen buddies,  Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings.  Great soundtrack, lots of Trigger playing throughout.  Willie sings the title song, which he wrote with David Alan Coe, who also is in the movie, along with June Carter and other faces you will recognize.

Willie Nelson plays Doc Holiday.  The movie has some of the best/worst movie lines ever:

Willie:  “Is that the deck you play with?”

Waylon:  “One of them.”

Willie:  “May I see it, please?  I must say, I admire your guts.”

Waylon:  “Does that mean you wouldn’t play cards with me?”

Willie:  “That means I’d shoot you on sight.”

Kris:  Where ya headed?

Dallas:  “I knew the answer to that when I was about 14.  Then I hit 15 and I ran head onto  that thing called reality.  And I been walking with a lantern ever since.”

Waylon:  “Don’t light that.”

Willie:  “Did you say something?”

Waylon:  “A gentleman doesn’t smoke in  the presence of a lady”

Willie:  “I wouldn’t like to think that you are implying that I am anything less.  I may be, you  understand, but I just wouldn’t want to hear you say it.”

Willie:  “And what are you looking at, friend?”

Man:  “That’s a filthy habit, smoking, just filthy.”

Willie:  “I have a lot of filthy habits.  Most of them I find very enjoyable”

Man:  “Don’t you have any good habits.”

Willie:  “You mean something that can be admired, and held up to a child as a good example?”

Man:  “Yes, something like that.”

Willie:  “No sir.  Children despise that.  There’s nothing a child despises more than a good example.”

 

June Carter to Willie (when he drinks a shot of whiskey):  “Did you eat?”

Willie:  “I ate a lot when I was young.”

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Willie Nelson sings on new Asleep at the Wheel Album, ‘It’s a Good Day’

Monday, July 19th, 2010


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It’s a Good Day
Truck Driver’s Blues (with Willie Nelson)
Alright, Okay, You Win 
Rosetta 
Basin Street Blues 
I Didn’t Realize 
Mean Woman With Green Eyes
Sugar Moon
Cotton Patch Blues
Snap Your Fingers
Get Your Kicks (On Route 66)
Osage Stomp

CD Release Party @ Waterloo Records July 20th at 5pm. Free. Limited Space.

The new album by AATW and Leon Rausch, It’s a Good Day, will be out July 20, 2010 on Bismeaux Records. Pre-orders ARE GOING ON NOW.  Order by July 20th and have your CD signed by Ray Benson and Leon Rausch.

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Willie Nelson and the Highwaymen, ‘Crazy’

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Scotland, 1992

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Willie Nelson, Dave Matthews, Tim Reynolds, ‘Farm Aid’ 2010

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

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Willie Nelson and Steven Tyler, “Once is Enough”

Friday, July 16th, 2010

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Thanks for the music, Hank Cochran

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran
Fourth of July Picnic

Clip from the short film, THE LEGEND HANK COCHRAN, premiering at the 2010 Nashville Film Festival. Starring Hank Cochran, Merle Haggard, Jamey Johnson, Lee Ann Womack, and many more, this film is a tribute to the legendary songwriter of hundreds of classic country songs. Hank Cochran’s hits include Make the World Go Away, Shes Got You, I Fall to Pieces, and Set Em Up Joe. He’s had songs cut by a hall of fame list of performers from Elvis Presley to Elvis Costello and hundreds of other marquee names like Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Johnny Cash. Produced and Directed by Charlie Peacock.

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Willie Nelson sings on new Jerry Lee Lewis album, ‘Mean Old Man’

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Jerry Lee Lewis and Kris Kristofferson sing, ‘Mean Old Man’

Jerry Lee Lewis is joined by Willie Nelson, Tim McGraw and Merle Haggard on his new album set to be released on September 7, 2010, on Verve/Universal Music.   On the album, ‘Mean Old Man’,  Willie Nelson sings on “Whiskey River”, and Merle Haggard sings on “Swinging Doors.” Other guests include Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, John Fogerty, Kid Rock and members of the Rolling Stones, among many others.

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