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This day in Willie Nelson history: CMT Crossroads, with Sheryl Crow (5/21/2002)

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Photo:  Rick Diamond

On May 21, 2002, Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow tape an installment of “CMT Crossroads” on the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles. Here is the entire show, as it aired on June 7, 2002.

Enjoy the entire show that someone uploaded to youtube.

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Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow met first in 1999 when they were part of a New York tribute concert honoring Johnny Cash. Nelson and Crow opened their CMT Crossroads taping with “Jackson,” one of the songs they performed at the Cash tribute. As they did in New York, Nelson played Cash to Crow’s June Carter.

Their friendship has grown since their first meeting. Crow, raised in a musical household in Missouri, reveres Nelson as the “king of phrasing” and “the voice that was the soundtrack to my childhood.” Nelson regards Crow as a worthy musical colleague, an inheritor of his musical “outlaw” spirit and a fit audience for his dirty jokes.

Nelson played an electric guitar throughout the night instead of his battered classical acoustic, dubbed “Trigger.” (Crow said her instruments have no names, but she might refer to them as “my little money makers.”) “My guitar,” Nelson explained, “is on the way to Amsterdam [for a European tour]. I am following soon behind.”

The singers each took care to match the other’s vocal phrasing, casting sidelong glances at each other throughout their performance. Of “Let It Be Me,” Nelson proclaimed the duo “happy to be resurrecting a great song.” He toyed with the familiar phrasing and seemed to challenge Crow to do the same. “It wasn’t perfect, but it was tasty,” she said after the first take.

Songs:

01. Jackson
02. Abilene
03. City of New Orleans
04. Let It Be Me
05. It’s So Easy
06. You Remain
07. Crazy
08. Every Day Is A Winding Road

Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, “Seven Spanish Angels”

Monday, May 20th, 2013

Willie Nelson, Kurt Nilsen, “Lost Highway”

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, “Pancho and Lefty”

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

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By: Andy Greene

The song has been in Willie Nelson’s repertoire ever since he recorded it with Merle Haggard in 1983. They turned it into a huge hit, and six years later Bob Dylan began sprinkling it into his set list on the Never Ending Tour. Dylan last played the song at Bonnaroo in 2004, along with Hank Williams’ “You Win Again” and Haggard’s “Sing Me Back Home.”

Dylan and Nelson have toured together many times in recent years. In the summer of 2004 they often duetted on “Heartland” (a song they wrote together in 1993), but they have yet to tackle “Pancho and Lefty” again. Willie continues to play it at his shows, but Dylan’s set lists have grown increasingly predictable and he almost never plays cover songs. 

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This day in Willie Nelson History: “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” #1 on Country Chart (5/12/13)

Sunday, May 12th, 2013

On May 12, 1984, “To All The Girls I’ve Loved Before”, by Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias, moves to #1 on Billboard Country Chart.

Willie Nelson & Julio Iglesias perform “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before” at Farm Aid II in Austin, Texas on July 4, 1986

Willie Nelson, Kenny Chesney, “Coconut Tree”

Monday, May 6th, 2013

Kenny Chesney released his 16th studio album Life on the Rock, which features duet with Willie Nelson, on “Coconut Tree”

Willie Nelson and Lukas Nelson, “Just Breath” (April 28, 2013)

Sunday, May 5th, 2013

CMT Crossroads: Willie Nelson & Friends from Third Man Records, (airs June 2013)

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Keith Urban's Fourth Annual We're All For The Hall Benefit Concert

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Willie Nelson was joined by Sheryl Crow, Jamey Johnson, Norah Jones, Ashley Monroe, Leon Russell and Neil Young on Thursday (April 18) to celebrate his upcoming 80th birthday during a taping of CMT Crossroads: Willie Nelson & Friends From Third Man Records. Musician Jack White hosted the special from his Nashville-based studio, Third Man Records. Nelson turns 80 on Monday (April 29), although most reference books cite April 30 as his birthdate. He released a new lbum, Let’s Face the Music and Dance, on April 16. The CMT Crossroads special, which features Nelson performing duets of several of his most famous songs, is set to air in late June.

Willie Nelson, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance”

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

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On his new album, “Let’s Face the Music and Dance,” Willie Nelson and his musical Family band lay the musical vibe that has kept them on the road for decades across a swath of American classics. The impressive tracklist ranges from the 1935 Irving Berlin title track to a sparse introspective update of the singer’s own “Is the Better Part Over.”

To mark the new album (You can read my review of it here), Nelson has released a video that captures the musicians recording Django Reinhardt’s “Nuages” in the studio. Watch it below. One of a pair of instrumental tracks on the record, the song dances across the smoky jazz riffs from Nelson’s classical guitar, Trigger,” and the musical interplay of his sister Bobbie Nelson’s piano and Mickey Raphael’s resonant harmonica.

The black and white video captures the moment beautifully. At nearly 80 years old (his birthday is next week), Nelson’s face carries the emotions of a life well-lived, but not nearly finished. The band sits at the ready to add their inspiration to the lush track. But, it is Nelson’s hands and Trigger who are the stars here – both cracked and craggy, yet filled with musical vitality. His fingers dance across the strings just above the ragged texture of the guitar’s face. And, it’s all captured gorgeously in remarkable clarity.

This video probably won’t be one of country music’s most-watched of the year, but it is likely one of the best.

Nelson Let's Face the Music

Willie Nelson, Victoria Jackson sing “The Boyfriend Song”, Saturday Night Live

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Willie Nelson, “A Song for You”

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Willie Nelson, Lukas Nelson, “Just Breathe”

Monday, April 8th, 2013


heroes

Willie Nelson – Heroes tracklist:

1. “A Horse Called Music”Merle Haggard & Lukas Nelson
2. “Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die”Snoop Dogg, Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson
3. “That’s All There Is To This Song”
4. “No Place To Fly”Lukas Nelson
5. “Every Time He Drinks He Thinks Of Her” Lukas Nelson
6. “Come On Up To The House”Lukas Nelson & Sheryl Crow
7. “Hero”Billy Joe Shaver, Jamey Johnson
8. “My Window Faces The South”Lukas Nelson
9. “The Sound Of Your Memory”Lukas Nelson
10. “Cold War With You”Lukas Nelson & Ray Price
11. “Just Breathe”Lukas Nelson
12. “My Home In San Antone”Lukas Nelson
13. “Come On Back Jesus”Lukas Nelson & Micah Nelson
14. “The Scientist”

Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow, CMT “Crossroads”

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

On May 21, 2002, Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow tape an installment of CMT Crossroads on the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles. In addition to singing their own songs, including ‘Crazy,’ ‘Abilene’ and others, they sang the Johnny Cash and June Carter Classic, ‘Jackson.’ The show aired in June 2002.

Willie Nelson and Ray Charles, “Mountain Dew”

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Willie Nelson sings “Crazy” with Paul Anka on, “Duets”

Monday, April 1st, 2013

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Paul Anka releases his new album of collaborations next week, and he’s included a couple of all-time country greats. Fans and ToC readers get a first listen of his recording of ‘Crazy’ with Willie Nelson in this audio stream, exclusive to Taste of Country. ‘Duets’ is available on April 9, the same day Anka releases his memoir, ‘My Way: An Autobiography.’

Together, the two legendary singers cover ‘Crazy,’ a song written by Nelson but made famous by Patsy Cline in 1961.The pacing and jazzy delivery from the two men feels familiar, but their blend of voices is an absolute original.

Dolly Parton also appears on ‘Duets’ singing ‘Do I Love You (Yes, In Every Way)’ with Anka. Both recordings are new versions of previous recordings. Other well-known singers to appear on the album include Leon Russell, Michael Jackson, Gloria Estefan, Michael Buble, Celine Dion and Frank Sinatra. Some of the 14 tracks are the same as those that appeared on the ‘A Body of Work’ album from 1998. Others, like ‘Pennies From Heaven’ with Buble, are brand new cuts.

Anka is celebrating 55 years of performing with these co-releases. As a songwriter. he’s best known for hits like ‘My Way’ for Sinatra and ‘She’s a Lady’ for Tom Jones. His own hits include ‘You’re Having a Baby,’ ‘Diana’ and ‘Lonely Boy.’

Listen to Paul Anka (Feat. Willie Nelson), ‘Crazy’

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