Articles tagged "willie nelson"

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Bob Dylan + Willie Nelson + John Mellencamp: 28 July 2009 - Durham, NC

by Wilson McBee

[11.Sep.09] :. Who would deny the appeal of the Willie Nelson/John Mellencamp/Bob Dylan ballpark tour, even after we agree that Mellencamp doesn't belong with such a distinguished duo?

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Willie Sounds Better Naked

by Juli Thanki

[6.Apr.09] :. Editing the original RCA tapes makes the songs on Naked Willie so much better that I’m remembering the reasons why I fell in love with Willie Nelson so many years ago.

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Music Review

Willie Nelson / Asleep at the Wheel: Willie and the Wheel

by Joshua O'Neill

[1.Apr.09] :. Nelson is the ideal singer for this sort of material, but a magical voice like his just doesn't belong in such mundane, stilted surroundings.

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News

Ray Benson is playing cowboy with Willie Nelson

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[25.Feb.09] :. ABOARD WILLIE NELSON’S BUS IN WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - A couple of Texas cowboys are parked in an alleyway behind the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts here, listening to Hank Williams,...

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Sound Affects

Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel (MP3 and video)

by Sarah Zupko

[29.Jan.09] :. Willie Nelson is teaming up with one of my favorite bands, Asleep at the Wheel, for an album of western swing tunes, Willie and the Wheel, due out next Tuesday on Bismeaux Records. Western swing...

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Events Review

Willie Nelson + Mary McBride

by Liberty Kohn

[26.Nov.08] :. For the entire night, you are not sure if you are present to hear Willie Nelson's music or simply to see the man himself. In the end, you attend for both.

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Countrypolitik: What’s Right and What’s Left About Country Music

by Bob Proehl

[20.Oct.08] :. At a first glance, country music seems traditionally allied with the sort of down-home, small-town ethics and values touted by the Republicans. But the politics of country music has never been a simple red or blue.

 

Various Artists: The Imus Ranch Record

by Juli Thanki

[26.Sep.08] :. Despite the big mouth and poor judgement that got him in trouble recently, radio host Don Imus is a pretty good guy. He and his wife Dierdre run the Imus Ranch, an actual working ranch which hosts...

 
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Music Review

Willie Nelson: Stardust (Legacy Edition)

by Ron Hart

[30.Jun.08] :. In celebration of its 30th anniversary, Willie Nelson’s classic 1978 interpretation of the Great American Songbook receives a double-disc makeover.

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Too many facts dull tale of musical icon Willie Nelson

by Howard Cohen [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[18.Jun.08] :. Willie Nelson’s first name really is Willie. Not William. Just Willie. That’s about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it’s a Herculean task to...

 

Willie Nelson: One Hell of a Ride

by Dave Heaton

[25.Apr.08] :. Four jam-packed discs still represent a truncated guidebook to the maze that is Willie Nelson’s life work.

 

Willie Nelson: An Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski

by Mario Tarradell [The Dallas Morning News]

[23.Apr.08] :. New Willie Nelson biography light on revelations, but fans will relish intimate details.

 

Willie Nelson’s older sister steps out of his long shadow

by Jay Root [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Feb.08] :. AUSTIN, Texas - Wives have come and gone, but one woman has been at Willie Nelson’s side from the start. He calls her “Sister Bobbie,” and if the name evokes a little gospel...

 

Willie Nelson: Moment of Forever

by Dave Heaton

[8.Feb.08] :. Moment of Forever is stunning, for its spare demeanor and how well it shows off Nelson's talents.

 

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price: Last of the Breed [DVD]

by Dan MacIntosh

[15.Oct.07] :. These three graying men are the true, diehard troubadours. This concert DVD will surely bless your little heart if you happen to be the last of another breed: the traditional country music fan.

 

Willie Nelson concert to benefit push for pot legalization

by Jay Root [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Aug.07] :. AUSTIN, Texas—It’s been decades since Willie Nelson smoked that first joint in Fort Worth, but—“Ain’t it funny how time slips away?”—he’s still singing...

 

Full Frame 3: The Bad, the Ugly, the Cute and the Delicious

by Kevin Greer, Jyllian Gunther, and Isaac Miller

[11.May.07] :. Subversive behavior is encouraged, girl-watching is indulged, Hunter S. Thompson gets some respect, and the pig-out at the wrap-up Awards Barbeque begins.

 

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price: Last of the Breed Volume 1

by Steve Horowitz

[28.Mar.07] :. Yes, that’s right. Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Ray Price offer the somnolent styles of yesterday and today for your enjoyment.

 
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Misc. Artists: Outlaw Country: Live From Austin, TX [DVD]

by Leigh H. Edwards

[7.Dec.06] :. The effort to share music with fellow travelers and the appreciative Austin audience is a key part of that painful, uncertain effort to reach insight and express meaning through the music.

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Willie Nelson: Songbird

by Steve Horowitz

[31.Oct.06] :. My guess is that anyone familiar with Nelson's music can think of at least one song that makes that person cringe. There's none of those here.

 
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Willie Nelson: You Don’t Know Me: Songs of Cindy Walker

by Dave Heaton

[14.Mar.06] :. Willie sings from the Great American (Country and Western) Songbook.

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Willie Nelson

by Tyler Wilcox

[22.Sep.05] :. 'Good morning, America, how are you?' Gee Willie, since you wanted to know: we're not doing so hot at all. But thanks, it was seriously nice of you to ask...

 

Willie Nelson: Countryman

by Jason MacNeil

[16.Aug.05] :. Nelson can't be faulted for the effort, and there are some good songs, but the 'regguntry' mix sadly is a hit and miss affair.

 

The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.05] :. A series of rowdy antics instead of a sustained storyline, The Dukes of Hazzard is all about the car.

 

Willie Nelson: Songs

by Will Harris

[16.Mar.05] :. Willie Nelson is a country troubadour with few peers, and, as such, it's a virtual impossibility for him to release a best-of collection that's not worth listening to. Unfortunately, there's 'worth listening to', and then there's 'worth owning'.

 

Willie Nelson: The Troublemaker

by Seth Limmer

[1.Nov.04] :. Willie Nelson has always been a populist. Thus, it’s not surprising to find out that so, too, is his Jesus: partially Christ, completely Cowboy. The religious music on The Troublemaker...

 

Willie Nelson: Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin’

by Steven Ward

[18.Jul.03] :. Even though I wasn’t aware of it at the time, I think I fell in love with music sometime when I was kid living in a small apartment in Metairie, Louisiana in the late ‘70s. My father...

 

Willie Nelson: The Essential Willie Nelson

by Mitch Pugh

[16.May.03] :. One the funniest commercials to air during this year’s Super Bowl was undoubtedly Willie Nelson’s spot hawking H&R Block. Due to a tax snafu, troubles which Nelson in real life is...

 

Willie Nelson: The Great Divide

by Andrew Gilstrap

[14.Jan.02] :. The cover of The Great Divide shows Willie Nelson holding his guitar. The guitar is impossibly time-worn. Scars and carved signatures cover its surface, and there’s even a raggedy hole...

 

Willie Nelson: Rainbow Connection

by Jeff Manuel

[11.Jun.01] :. Over the course of a long and winding career, Willie Nelson has been a lot of things: gifted songwriter, outlaw country singer, concept album master, and even a Latin-country genre-buster. But on his...

 

    Willie Nelson: Teatro

by Dainon Moody

[31.Aug.98] :. My ties to Willie Nelson were never all that evident. They barely existed, to tell you the truth. My stepfather owned a Willie Nelson greatest hits CD during my musically formative years and it...

 

The Journeyman (2001)

by Mark Percival

With a final polish, 'The Journeyman' might be a feature debut as important as Robert Rodriguez's 'El Mariachi'. Kick ass.