“I was 14 here; I borrowed an Abercrombie tank top from my friend, Molly, and wore my slouchy pants that were identical to the ones Britney wore in her “sometimes” video to have the perfect outfit for this papa willie show. Mom and I walked up on the bus; Waylon pulled me down in between him and my grandpa and told mom to take our picture. 
by mom.”
— Raelyn Nelson
www.AmericanSongwriter.com
by: Delia Rowland
Recorded via Zoom in December of last year, this episode of Prine Time is a special one with guest Raelyn Nelson, granddaughter of Willie Nelson.
The episode involves a myriad of stories about American music legends like Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Jerry Jeff Walker and “Papa” Willie. Nelson also talks about a song her band, the Raelyn Nelson Band, and their 2019 release “Whiskey and Weed.”
As far as how the band is doing these days, Nelson explains that there isn’t much to do other than play shows virtually and wait for this period to sort itself out.
“Whenever you’re exposed to someone who has COVID you have to quarantine for a while, so it’s been hard to plan something because things keep happening,” Nelson explained. “That being said, we are doing that and I’ve been doing little acoustic stuff for my patrons on my Patreon pretty regularly, but it’s just not the same as the band. Fiddling around with the ukulele, which I love to do and it’s great, but it’s not the band. And that’s the art we like to make. That’s what we like to put out there, so I’m just trying to figure out the best way to do live shows.”
Happy birthday, Raelynn Nelson!
Here is a video for the new song, “Whiskey and Weed” which is on the band’s new album, “Don’t” which comes out November 8th. You can pre-order a copy of the album here or make a donation and get a shirt, to support production of new album, HERE.
This video was made from footage taken by fans on their cell phones at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in Austin, and at the Deutchland Music Festival in Pittasburg, PA.
We are releasing a new album and we need your help! With the new music streaming economy, it is getting harder to give a record a proper release without some help. We are skipping Go Fund Me/ Pledge/Kickstarter and going straight to the people. You can always do what everyone does and just preorder an autographed cd. Preorder CD Here
However, for the low, low, slightly inflated price of $30.37, you can REALLY help us out and be the proud owner of this limited edition t-shirt (and we’ll throw in an autographed cd of the new album)! If you hate t-shirts but have lots of cash and want to help by parting with large (or any, really) amounts of it, please send any ideas, requests, offers (birthday parties, weddings, bah mitzvahs, house shows, coffee or beer date…use your imagination) e-mail us at RaelynNelsonBand@gmail.com!Buy Tshirt here!
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Happy birthday, sweet Raelyn.
Raelyn is another year older and busy as ever with new music and a tour.
Check out her website and follow her on Facebook and Twitter to find out more.
The band is working on a new album, and you can help:
We are releasing a new album and we need your help! With the new music streaming economy, it is getting harder to give a record a proper release without some help. We are skipping Go Fund Me/ Pledge/Kickstarter and going straight to the people. You can always do what everyone does and just preorder an autographed cd. Preorder CD Here
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June 21 variety playhouse Atlanta
— Raelyn Nelson Band (@RaelynNelson) June 19, 2019
June 22 walker theatre Chattanooga
June 23 bijou theatre knoxville #weekendcowgirl pic.twitter.com/DLOBLMA15V
mmhmm tour dates:
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by: Jason Gilmer
For a while Raelyn Nelson used a more traditional instrument — the acoustic guitar — as she fronted her band.
Then she discovered the ukulele.
“The most fun part is that I can move around and it looks like I’m a rock star with all of the moves I can do,” she said. “I can move around like crazy and it looks cool because it’s a tiny little instrument.”
She found the instrument because her bandmate, Jonathan Bright, in the Raelyn Nelson Band, which plays at 9 p.m. Friday at The Grey Eagle in Asheville, N.C., had just finished a recording using the instrument. It was a a tribute to The Replacements, done completely with the ukulele, and Nelson began to pick on the four-stringed, typical-Hawaiian guitar.
“Country music fans in Hawaii might beg to differ that the ukulele isn’t a country (music) sounding instrument,” she said.
But, honestly, Nelson and her band can’t be considered all that country.
“It’s country grunge rock. It’s caffeinated,” said Nelson, who is the granddaughter of country legend Willie Nelson. “It’s basically Loretta Lynn-style country melodies with a backing rock band.”
Rolling Stone Country magazine once described the sound as music that “mixes old country and dirty garage rock.”
Who: Raelyn Nelson Band with Drunken Prayer
When: 9 p.m. Friday
Where: The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave., Asheville, N.C.
Tickets: $12 (advance), $15 (day of show)
Info: 828-232-5800 or www.thegreyeagle.com
The group has released several singles and an EP, and have a new album that will be released this year, Nelson said.
Some new songs will make it into the upcoming setlist, Nelson said, but she isn’t sure about some of the slower, or mid-tempo, songs like “Everything Falls.”
“I don’t know if I’ll play that, it will just depend on the vibe,” she said. “I hate bringing (the vibe) down because it always takes a few songs to bring everyone back up and dancing again.”
This won’t be the Nashville, Tenn.-based group’s first foray into Asheville.
“We played in Asheville once at Salvage Station and loved it,” Nelson said. “I didn’t get to spend much time in Asheville but I hear all this good stuff about it, like it’s this trendy little hippie town.”
Nelson isn’t just a country-rock act, as she has another project called Mmhmm with friend Hannah Fairlight. The folky duo’s self-titled debut was recently named Best Folk Rock album by the website Folk N Rock.
“Mmhmm doesn’t take anything seriously,” she said. “We’re doing the Smothers Brothers bit. Their’s is more of a comedy bit with a little bit of music, while ours is the opposite. It’s a lot of fun and it makes people laugh.”
www.Flagpole.com
by: Bobbie Moore
The Raelyn Nelson Band is both an homage to its namesake’s outlaw grandfather and a fine-tuned rock and roll band. Willie Nelson’s talented kin Raelyn’s talents make her the unabashedly Southern element of an aptly labeled country-rock project. She’s joined by guitarist Jonathan Bright—from fellow Nashville act Defense Wins Championships—and the rocking rhythm section of bassist Preach Rutherford and drummer Angela Lese Gregory. Some have likened the four-piece to Loretta Lynn fronting Cheap Trick. That’s a fair assessment, based on “Mama Cry,” “Mason Jar” and other originals—not to mention that infectiously fun cover of John Michael Montgomery’s “Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident).”
On the Rooftop. 6:30 p.m.
Muddy Roots Music Festival TOMORROW August 31 and Salvage Station in Asheville, NC on September 1 #RaelynNelsonBand #americasfavoritemusicalgroup @muddyrootsmusic @Salvage_station pic.twitter.com/QaW9O3ZO15
— Raelyn Nelson Band (@RaelynNelson) August 31, 2018
Happy birthday to the talented and beautiful Raelyn Nelson, Willie Nelson’s granddaughter.
The Raelynn Nelson band at the Whiskey A Go-Go
8901 Sunset Boulevard West
Hollywood, CA