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by Lauren  Bishop

Sixty-one years ago Monday, 26-year-old Hank Williams walked up to the second floor of 811 Race St. in Downtown Cincinnati and made music history.

The building, the former home of the E.T. Herzog Recording Co., is where Williams recorded “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “A House Without Love,” “I Just Don’t Like This Kind of Livin’” and “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It” on Aug. 30, 1949, eight months after he recorded four other country classics there, including “Lovesick Blues.”

Monday night, in honor of that second historic recording session, the Cincinnati USA Music Heritage Foundation will put on a tribute and fundraising concert called “Hank to Thank” in that very same building – the only remaining structure where Williams recorded professionally.

The concert features the Cincinnati-based country rockers the Dallas Moore Band with Alabama-based guitarist Jody Payne, a Norwood High School graduate who has played with such country legends as Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris and Merle Haggard.

Payne, 74, says he’s honored that Moore – whom Payne met when Moore opened for Willie Nelson years ago – asked him to be part of Monday’s event.

“I’ve had a real good career, and we’ve made music history, and this is going to be some more music history,” Payne says.

Born to a sharecropping family in Garrard County, Ky., Payne learned to play guitar from his father and started touring with bluegrass musician Charlie Monroe when he was just 14. His family relocated to Cincinnati so Payne could perform here and finish high school.

Payne says his all-time favorite lyrics come from Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”: “The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky/And as I wonder where you are, I’m so lonesome I could cry.”

“His simplicity was so complex, it’s unreal,” Payne says. “Those people don’t come along very often.”

Moore, 40, grew up listening to Williams records played by his mother, who went to high school with Payne and recorded at Herzog studios in the early 1950s with the Buckeye Bells. And his left arm bears a tattoo of Williams in his hat above the musical notes to “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.”

Moore has said the band will play a mix of original songs and Williams covers at Monday’s show. Payne also promises some surprises.

“I know we’ll make Hank proud,” he says.

The proceeds from the event will benefit the Music Heritage Foundation’s efforts to turn the space into its headquarters and use it for recordings, performances and exhibits.

The concert will be recorded with plans for a CD and DVD release on Lawrenceburg, Ind.-based SOL Records, the Dallas Moore Band’s label.

iTunes and Apple have announced a new Willie Nelson app for the iphone.  It gives you instant access to Willie Nelson & Family’s tour schedule, their store, and you can get downloads of concerts, right after the show.

To purchase the app for your iPhone, go to iTunes.

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Stay up to date with all of Willie’s live events with just the touch of a button. Download the Live Willie Nelson app and experience live shows like never before in real time. Once you purchase your live concert your music will be available instantly after each show on the app streaming on your iphone. You will then receive and activation email to download the live tracks into itunes from your computer.

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by Steve Ragan

If you follow music, you know who Willie Nelson is. After more than forty years in the business, one of the nation’s most notable music icons and recognized advocate for biodiesel is still on the road, supporting both his newest album and a company we’ve covered on The Tech Herald in the past, Mushroom Networks. 

Considering Willie’s history, the irony of him using gear provided by Mushroom Networks on his tricked out tour bus isn’t lost on us. At the same time, this story isn’t about trippy gear, it’s about frustration with service providers.

Willie and his crew travel about 200 days per year. Since members of his fan club get access to exclusive video and audio, you can bet some of that comes from the tour. However, before Willie can send those extras to his fans, he’ll need to upload them to his site. Before, tour groups like Willie’s used satellite-based Internet providers. This kept them connected to the Internet from venue to venue, but had the drawback of being both expensive and extremely slow, according to the story told by Willie’s tour manager David Anderson.

So, to fix this, they took a less expensive option, broadband connect cards. AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon sell them, each has decent coverage, and offer good speeds all things considered. However, Anderson noted, the speeds and coverage are layered now since they started using broadband bonding on Willie’s bus. The bonding comes thanks to Mushroom Networks, whose gear allows you to take up to five broadband connect cards, any vendor will do, and combine the total bandwidth capacity. If you’re curious, Willie is using the PortaBella device on his bus.

Considering that using broadband connection options from a single carrier would cause issues in undeveloped areas or outside of the coverage option, what difference would five of the same card do?

The coverage offered on the bus, and the difference broadband bonding makes, comes thanks to the use of the PortaBella’s support of five USB broadband card connection slots and multiple carriers, Anderson noted. It is because of this that, “…we rarely lose connection even in rural areas or if one card goes down,” he said.

“We have been supplying Internet connectivity to Willie Nelson while he tours across the country since 2002,” stated Bill Adams, who owns one of the reseller channel businesses used by Mushroom Networks. “Reliable Internet has become a ‘must have’ while Willie is on the road and the PortaBella has provided that high-speed infallible service.”

So what does the big man himself think? After all, it is his tour and bus. “Sending music files just got easier; and I always have my email now,” Willie added.

While broadband technology is cool on its own, Willie has been doing something else that should get mention too. His tour bus runs on biodiesel, a renewable fuel made from vegetable oils or animal fats. He’s been using it for years, in an effort to raise awareness about it and help the environment.

http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200942/4632/Willie-Nelson-hits-the-road-again-with-bonded-broadband

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