Archive for the ‘television’ Category
Farm Aid II on VH-1 (7/4/1986)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010We are the World III
Monday, March 1st, 2010SNL opened their show last Saturday with this parody of ‘We are the World’ 25
Willie Nelson, Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel on Letterman (2/16/2009)
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Willie Nelson, Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel performed on the David Letterman show last year, on February 16, 2010. If you haven’t seen this yet, you’re in for a treat.
Willie Nelson on PBS Soundstage, ‘Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down’
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Thanks to citybythesea for posting this video from Willie Nelson’s performance on the PBS Soundstage show, which is airing this month — check your local listings. They perform musc from Willie’s Country Music album, which will be released in April.
Willie Nelson on PBS Soundstage, and Country Music Album
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Willie Nelson’s album “Country Music,” produced by T Bone Burnett, will be released on 4/20/2010, but you can order it now at Amazon at: Country Music
Here’s the track list:
1. Man With The Blues
2. Seaman’s Blues
3. Dark As A Dungeon
4. Gotta Walk Alone
5. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
6. My Baby’s Gone
7. Freight Train Boogie
8. Satisfied Mind
9. You Done Me Wrong
10. Pistol Packin’ Mama
11. Ocean Of Diamonds
12. Drinking Champagne
13. I Am A Pilgrim
14. House of Gold
15. Nobody’s Fault But Mine
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 – Soundstage will also celebrate the release of Willie Nelson’s country classics’ disc, “Country Music” (out April 20 on Rounder) when it begins airing a show nationally on PBS beginning Feb. 25.Nelson and his-eight piece band (featuring a banjo, mandolin, fiddle, steel guitar and more) gather round the stage to highlight songs from “Country Music,” produced in collaboration with T-Bone Burnett.
Nelson dipped into the country music songbook to record fresh versions of classics just like he did when he recorded “Stardust.” Nelson has covered many genres – blues (”Milk Cow Blues,” 2000), reggae (”Countryman,” 2005), jazz (”Two Men With The Blues” with Wynton Marsalis, 2008), Western swing (”Willie And The Wheel” with Asleep At The Wheel, 2009) and most recently revisited the pop and jazz centered approach of “Stardust” (”American Classic,” 2009).
“I’ve known T Bone for years, but never worked with him before,” Nelson said. “He sent me a list of 28 songs he’d thought about for this album, and I added Nobody’s Fault But Mine. We recorded 23 and picked 15 out of that to release.”
Nelson recorded the disc with many ace players. “The best people around,” Nelson said of a group that included Ronnie McCoury on mandolin, Jim Lauderdale on background vocals and Buddy Miller on electric guitar.
“There are so many great songs in every category ¬ pop, country, bluegrass, whatever. There are a lot of great standards to choose from. Fortunately I¹ve lived long enough to know them all, I think. I just love singing those songs.”
Willie Nelson, on PBS SoundStage, Chicago
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Thanks to Luke of www.ItsGreattobealive.com for sending me a link to this great story posted by M. Stillman at the unofficial martin guitar forum, about being at the taping of Willie Nelson’s performance for the PBS Soundstage show last September. (The show will air on 2/20 (or 2/25) on PBS — check your local listings for details.)
http://theunofficialmartinguitarforum.yuku.com
by M. StillmanThe Soundstage taping was a fine evening of music…. more bluegrass-flavored than strictly bluegrass, with some traditional country and even contemporary country songs. Willie did only two of his own songs, starting and ending with “Whiskey River” and also “Man With The Blues” which he said he wrote “fifty years ago, and recorded in a friend’s basement.”
The band was nine pieces, including Willie, who took a jazzy guitar break on almost every song with Trigger, the 1969 Martin N-20 that’s been his hoss for decades now. Willie introduced each musician during Whiskey River, and let each take a short instrumental break as they were introduced. Chris and his D-21 sounded great. Other musicians included the brilliant Riley Baugus on banjo, Jim Lauderdale on backing vocals and acoustic guitar, Russ Paul on pedal steel, Dennis Crouch on bass, and Mickey Raphael on harmonica (the only holdover from Willie’s regular band), as well as a mandolin player and a fiddle player whose names I didn’t catch (sorry).
Willie was very appreciative of the musicians, saying “I’m very proud of these guys,” and he shook each of their hands on stage after the taping was over. For me, some of the highlights included “Satan, Your Kingdom Come Down” a spine-tingling gospel tune in Em, which Willie said that T-Bone Burnett had brought to the session. Another great one was the Hank Locklin tune “Send Me The Pillow That You Dream On” which was a fine choice for Willie’s winsome vocals.
It was nice to hear Willie mention the songwriter before almost every song, sometimes making brief remarks about his interactions with the songwriter or when he first heard the song. This Soundstage program will air on various PBS stations beginning in January, so mark your calendars now.
I’ve scanned a copy of the actual setlist and included it below.
Willie Nelson on PBS ‘Soundstage’
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Last September, Willie Nelson filmed a segment of ‘Soundstage,’ the television music series filmed in Chicago which airs on PBS. Willie performed with an eight-piece band, assembled by T-Bone Burnett, including Willie on his guitar, a banjo, mandolin, fiddle and steel guitar. Burnette produced an album by Willie and this group of musicians earlier this year in Nashville, and, includings Bob Wills’ Trouble In Mind, Bill Mack’s, ‘Drinking Champagne’, Al Dexter’s Pistol Packin’ Mamma and the Joe “Red” Hayes and Jack Rhodes classic Satisfied Mind, Johnny Bush’s, ‘Whiskey River, and Dark As A Dungeon.’
From everything I have read, the show will air on PBS this Saturday, February 20, 2010, in some markets, and on February 25th, in others. Check your local PBS listings to see when it air in your neck of the woods.
You Can See Willie Nelson on Television This Week
Monday, February 15th, 2010
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Barbaraosa Showtime Monday, February 15 2010 3:05 p.m. |
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Swing Vote February 16, 2010 9:05 a.m. STARZ EDGE |
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Thief Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:55 a.m. FLIX |
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Where the Hell’s That Gold? Wedneday, February 17, 2010 7:00 a.m. Encore Westerns |
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Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me Saturday, February 20, 2010 6:00 p.m. WPIX (CW) |
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Stagecoach Monday, February 22, 2010 2:20 a.m. Encore Westerns |
Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Jason Mraz featured on DirectTV’s “Farm Aid Presents” Specials
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Willie Nelson will appear in DIRECTV’s first in a series of four one-hour “Farm Aid Presents” specials taped at Farm Aid 2009, to air on The 101 Network on DIRECTV over the next few months.
Willie Nelson will be featured on “Farm Aid Presents Jason Mraz & Friends”, set to premier on Monday, January 18, 2010 at 9 p.m. Eastern Time and Pacific. The show will also features performances by John Mellencamp, and the full Farm Aid set from Mraz and songs by Will Dailey. It airs in both high definition and surround sound.
The Mraz special will be repeated throughout the rest of January and Feburary. DIRECTV originally aired Farm Aid 2009 live from the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Mo., just outside of St. Louis. Ambassador Entertainment Inc. produced the live presentation and the “Farm Aid Presents” specials.
Subsequent broadcasts of “Farm Aid Presents Jason Mraz & Friends” on The 101 Network are scheduled as follows:
1/19/10 8:00 AM & 6:00 PM
1/21/10 7:00 AM & 11:00 AM & 2:00 AM
1/23/10 10:00 AM & 8:00 PM & 11:00 AM
1/24/10 11:00 AM & 2:00 PM
1/25/10 8:00 AM
1/27/10 5:00 PM
1/29/10 7:00 AM
1/31/10 10:00 AM & 1:00 PM
2/01/10 8:00 PM
2/06/10 8:00 AM
2/10/10 8:00 AM
2/14/10 4:00 AM
Please note that all times are ET and the schedule is subject to change.
Willie Nelson, on ‘CMT Inside Fame’ (9/3/2001)
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Music legend Willie Nelson will give his fans and CMT viewers a rare treat when he sits down to tell the details of his life on CMT Inside Fame on Monday, September 3 at 10:00 p.m. CMT viewers will see the personal and candid side of Nelson as he talks about everything from his troubles with the IRS, his efforts in helping family farmers, his thoughts on the use of marijuana, country music’s Outlaws movement, and his many collaborations with different artists from all genres throughout his career.
“CMT is honored and very excited to feature Willie Nelson on CMT Inside Fame,” said Kay Zusmann, Vice President of Program Development and Production, CMT. “Willie has such a rich musical history and interesing life story. He has always stayed true to his music and to his fans and we are thrilled to be able to give our viewers a look into the life of this great artist.”
Nelson tells CMT that he credits the drug culture with saving his life. He says, “I used to smoke three, four packs of cigarettes a day. I used to drink as much whiskey and beer as anybody in the world. I wasn’t proud of it; I was brought up that way. And I would have been dead if it hadn’t been for pot because when I started smoking pot I quit smoking cigarettes and I quit drinking.” While he doesn’t condone drug use by young people, Nelson adds, “The highest killer on the planet is stress. And so many people medicate themselves in one way or another. Drinking is one way they do it. Cigarettes is another way they do it. But the best medicine for stress, if you have to take something, is pot.”
Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, on CMT’s ‘Crossroads’
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Photo: Rick Diamond
I don’t know if you got to see this show when it was on television, but you should track it down, if you didn’t. It’s a great concert, and includes a sit-down interview, in the parking lot beside Willie’s bus, with Willie and Sheryl and the CMT guy whose name I can’t remember. Willie and Sheryl talk about their song-writing experience, the sacrifices of life on the road and the fellowship of playing music with friends whom you admire.
Write CMT and see if you can get it, or beg them to air it again. I have a video I made from the show and it’s wearing out.
First aired: 6/7/2002
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
Here, they sing, ‘City of New Orleans.’
Willie Nelson and Sheryl Crow played another Crossroads: Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, Saturday, July 28, 2007
“Am I dreaming, or is Willie Nelson really holding my foot?” asks baby Wyatt Crow, backstage at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Chicago, with mom Sheryl.
Dallas Wayne with Heather Myles on TruCountry Music Show to air 1/29/2010
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Tonight, RFDTV will air the TruCountry Music Show, featuring recording Artist and Award Winning DJ Dallas Wayne as a guest of Heather Myles. The show, one of the TruCountrytv series launched by Heather Myles this month, was taped at the Circle T Arena in Hamilton, Texas and will air weekly on the RFD-TV channel. In other shows, you will get to see James Hand, Jake Hooker, Bobby Flores, Justin Trevino, Heather Myles, Darrell McCall, Leona Williams, Miss Leslie, and Amber Digby.
To find out more about Tru-country, visit www.trucountrymusic.com or call:
325-597-1895
photo by John Payne
Dallas Wayne, of Willie’s Place and Outlaw Country,Sirius/XM Radio was presented the DJ of the year award by the Academy of Western Artists Awards. The 14th Annual Academy of Western Artists “Will Rogers Awards” were held on September 22, 2009, at Garland, Texas.
Dallas Wayne can be heard daily on Sirius/XM Radio, on Willie’s Place, and at Outlaw Country. He is also a singer/songwriter and I’ll Take the Fifth is his most recent album. He continues to tour with his music around the U.S. and world, and you can learn more about Dallas and his music, and purchase his albums at www.DallasWayne.com
Neil Young sings, ‘Long May You Run’ on Conan O’Brien’s final show (1/22/2010)
Saturday, January 23rd, 2010Live! From New York! It’s Willie Nelson and Family on Saturday Night Live
Sunday, January 17th, 2010
Willie Nelson and Family, on Saturday Night Live
Photo by: Owen Franken
Posted by: JP at
http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/ladies-love-outlaws-waylon-willie-johnny-kris-company/
Willie Nelson & Friends: Stars and Guitars
Monday, January 11th, 2010
