Archive for the ‘Johnny Cash’ Category

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.”

Willie Nelson and the Highwaymen, ‘Crazy’

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Scotland, 1992

This day in Willie Nelson History: First Highwaymen Show in Houston, TX

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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Thanks to http://ozzybeef.wordpress.com, for sharing this picture of The Highwaymen at his ‘It’s Great To Be Alive” blog. 

On March 3, 1990, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson perform at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at the Astrodome, kicking off their first concert tour as the Highwaymen.

Johnny Cash: Backstage Pass to a Willie Nelson Show

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The Highwaymen: Desparados Waiting for a Train

Friday, February 5th, 2010

 I played the Red River Valley
He’d sit in the kitchen and cry
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin’
And wonder, “Lord, why has every well I’ve drilled gone dry?”

We were friends, me and this old man
We’s like desperados waitin’ for a train
Desperados waitin’ for a train

He’s a drifter, a driller of oil wells
He’s an old school man of the world
He taught me how to drive his car when he was too drunk to
And he’d wink and give me money for the girls
And our lives was like, some old Western movie
Like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like desperados waitin’ for a train

From the time that I could walk he’d take me with him
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
There was old men with beer guts and dominos
Lying ’bout their lives while they played
I was just a kid, they all called me “Sidekick”
Just like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like desperados waitin’ for a train

One day I looked up and he’s pushin’ eighty
He’s got brown tobacco stains all down his chin
Well to me he was a hero of this country
So why’s he all dressed up like them old men
Drinkin’ beer and playin’ Moon and Forty-two
Jus’ like desperados waitin’ for a train
Like a desperado waitin’ for a train

The day ‘fore he died I went to see him
I was grown and he was almost gone.
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
And sang one more verse to that old song
(spoken) Come on, Jack, that son-of-a-bitch is comin’

We’re desperados waitin’ for a train
Was like desperados waitin’ for a train

Kris, Willie, Dolly & Brenda: The Winning Hand

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is having a free screening of “The Winning Hand” on January 31, 2010.

Country Music Hall of Fame members Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Brenda Lee, and Dolly Parton performed together in this 1983 television special The Winning Hand.   Hosted by Johnny Cash, the program followed the release of a double album of the same name, which featured unreleased recordings from the performers’ careers on the Monument label during the 1960s. The television special captures special performances, and unforgettable duets.

The Hall of Fame and Museum is presenting this screening in support of their special exhibit honoring Brenda Lee: Dynamite, Presented by Great American Country Television Network.   The film is part of the museum’s Frist Library and Archive

Tickets: Free Admission
Info Phone: (615) 416-2001
January 31, 2010, at 2:00 p.m

Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
222 Fifth Avenue South Nashville, TN 37203

The Highwaymen

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

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1990 Tour

9/9 – LITTLE ROCK – AR
9/10 – DALLAS – TX
9/11 – HOUSTON – TX
9/13 – LAS CRUCES – NM
9/14 – DENVER – CO
9/17 – TUCSON – AZ
9/18 – PHOENIX – AZ
9/19 – LAKESIDE – CA
9/20 – BAKERSFIELD – CA
9/21 – UNIVERSAL CITY – CA
9/22 – COSTS MESA – CA
9/25 – PORTLAND – OR
9/27 – SACRAMENTO – CA
9/28 – CONCORD – CA
9/29 MOUNTAIN VIEW – CA
10/1 -UNIVERSAL – CA
10/2 – FRESNO – CA
10/3 – BURBANK – CA
10/4-9 LAS VEGAS – NV

The Highwayman in Australia, New Zealand (1991)

May  9 Christchurch NZ
May 11 Wellington NZ
May 12 Auckland NZ
May 15 Brisbane Entertainment Centre
May 18 Sydney Entertainment Centre
May 22 Melbourne National Tennis Centre
May 25 Adelaide Memorial Drive

HIGHWAYMEN 1995 TOUR

November 13 – Sydney Entertainment Center
November 15 – Newcastle Entertainment Center
November 18 – Melbourne Flinders Park
November 21 - Adelaide Entertainment Center
November 24 – Perth Burswood Domed Al

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 Gold Album 
CD Columbia  CK-40056    1985 

  1. Highwayman
  2. The Last Cowboy Song
  3. Jim I Wore A Tie Today
  4. Big River
  5. Committed To Parkview
  6. Desperados Waiting for A Train
  7. Deportee
  8. Welfare Line
  9. Against The WindThe Twentieth Century Is Almost Over

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CD Columbia  CK- 45240    1990

  1. Silver Stallion
  2. Born And raised In Black And white
  3. Two Stories Wide
  4. We’re All In Your Corner
  5. American Remains
  6. Angels Love Bad Men
  7. Anthem 84
  8. Songs That Makes A Difference
  9. Living Legend
  10. Texas

highway5CD – Liberty   CDP-7423-8-28091-2-8  1994

  1. The Devil’s Right Hand
  2. Live forever
  3. Everyone gets Crazy
  4. It Is What It Is
  5. I Do Believe
  6. The End Of Under standing
  7. True Love Travels A gravel road
  8. Waiting For A Long Time
  9. Death And Hell
  10. Here Comes That Rainbow Again
  11. The Road Goes On forever 

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The Highwayman 10th Anniversary Edition

01. Devil’s Right Hand 
02. Live Forever 
03. Everyone Gets Crazy 
04. It Is What It Is 
05. I Do Believe 
06. End of Understanding 
07. True Lovel Travels a Gravel Road 
08. Death and Hell 
09. Waiting for a Long Time 
10. Here Comes That Rainbow Again 
11. Road Goes on Forever 
12. If He Came Back Again [#][*] 
13. Live Forever [Acoustic Demo][#][*] 
14. I Ain’t Song [Acoustic Demo][#][*] 
15. Pick Up the Tempo [Acoustic Demo][#][*] 
16. Closer to the Bone [Acoustic Demo][#][*] 
17. Back in the Saddle Again [Acoustic Outtake] [#][*]

Johnny Cash: Backstage Pass at the Willie Nelson Show

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Kris Kristofferson, ‘Final Attraction’

Monday, October 26th, 2009

“The words to this song occurred to me when I was watching Willie Nelson close out a show, standing in the wings.” — Kris Kristofferson

Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash: VH1 Storytellers

Monday, October 12th, 2009

 

“My manager, Lou Robin, said ‘All  VH1 wants is two guitars, two stools and you and Willie.’”

I approach the situation with much trepidation, for as I walk on the stage there is a barn full of chrome and steel microphones, amplifiers and about a thousand miles of wire.  The audience is three feet away, boxing us in, but with friendly faces.  We pick, yet we know not what we pick.  No planned program, swapping songs from out of the back of our heads.  Just like a guitar pull at my house. 

He looks at me and sees that I am watching him, now he’s watching me.  I think he knows I made a wrong chord.  He gets over it.  We get into a song that feels good.  Willie and me.  I watch Willie’s hands as he takes a guitar lead.  He flows into a note and, at the same time, there is a slight grimace on his face, as if it might hurt just a little bit.  As he pulls the note off, he grits his teeth. 

I’ve seen hands like that in the cotton fields.  Rough.  Gnarly.  Dextrous. Determined.  Precise.  Concise.  Fascinating.  That said, how about greed.  Lust.  Anger.  Envy.  Pride.  But none of them committed here tonight, except maybe envy on my part.”

– Johnny Cash

 

  1. A Ghost Riders in the Sky (Stan Jones)
  2. “Worried Man” (Cash, June Carter Cash)
  3. “Family Bible” (Walt Breeland/Paul Buskirk/Claude Gray)
  4. “Don’t Take Your Guns to Town” (Cash)
  5. “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Nelson)
  6. “Flesh and Blood” (Cash)
  7. “Crazy” (Nelson)
  8. “Unchained” (Johnstone)
  9. “Night Life” (Breeland/Buskirk/Nelson)
  10. “Drive On” (Cash)
  11. “Me and Paul” (Nelson)
  12. “I Still Miss Someone” (Cash, Roy Cash)
  13. “Always on My Mind” (Johnny Christopher/Mark James/Wayne Carson Thompson)
  14. “Folsom Prison Blues” (Cash)
  15. “On the Road Again” (Nelson)

 

The Highwaymen on Tour (1990)

Monday, August 24th, 2009

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Thanks to http://ozzybeef.wordpress.com, for sharing this picture at his ‘It’s Great To Be Alive” blog.  I always get a pick-me-up from all the music he has posted there, and learn something, too.

9/9 – LITTLE ROCK – AR
9/10 – DALLAS – TX
9/11 – HOUSTON – TX
9/13 – LAS CRUCES – NM
9/14 – DENVER – CO
9/17 – TUCSON – AZ
9/18 – PHOENIX – AZ
9/19 – LAKESIDE – CA
9/20 – BAKERSFIELD – CA
9/21 – UNIVERSAL CITY – CA
9/22 – COSTS MESA – CA
9/25 – PORTLAND – OR
9/27 – SACRAMENTO – CA
9/28 – CONCORD – CA
9/29 MOUNTAIN VIEW – CA
10/1 -UNIVERSAL – CA
10/2 – FRESNO – CA
10/3 – BURBANK – CA
10/4-9 LAS VEGAS – NV

“Johnny Cash was concerned about the plight of Arkansas farmers following the televised reports of serious spring flooding.  He wanted to do something and thought of a benefit concert by the Highwaymen.  Since Barton Coliseum was available at the beginning of the group’s 1990 Southwestern United Sates tour, he started the wheels rolling.  Cash called Governor Bill Clinton who arranged for hte ticket money to be given to the Arkansas Office of Emergency Services so there would be no overhead or administrative expenses for distribution to Arkansas farmers.

So the Highwaymen were  here to give a concert.  But more than that, they were here to give their talents so that all of the proceeds ($196,437.00) from this concert can help with farm flooding relief.  The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash, normally receive more than $100,000 per concert, but appeared here at no charge.  The Arkansas Democrat, radio station KSSN and KARK-TV agreed to present and promote the concert.  Arkansas businesses, corporations and individuals have donated funds to cover the remaining costs of the concert.”

Jan Coney
Wright, Arkansas

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson sing ‘Loving her was easier (than anything I’ll ever do again) (1992)

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Thanks to friend and Willie Nelson fan George, from SoCal, for sending me this video of the Highwaymen performing  at a 1992 concert in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Enjoy.

Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Thanks to http://blogs.nashvillescene.com for posting this 1981 video of Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash talking about the music business and outlaw music movement.

Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, “Ring of Fire”

Monday, April 14th, 2008

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Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

 

“I was fascinated with his style of singing – when we started doing the Highwayman shows ten years ago – I screwed up the band, because I insisted on playing rhythm to Willie’s singing. Then I realized, after a couple of songs, that you just can’t do that.” 

– Johnny Cash