Willie Nelson will be 75 next year. I used to be a dj in a country bar in San Francisco and he was always a national treasure to me. Great singer, great songwriter, great spirit. He did this duet with Susan Tedeschi on the first of his three 2000 album releases, Milk Cow Blues. I'm not going to Kansas City on this trip, but I thought you might like to see what it looked like.
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May Willie live to be 100+
I would love to smoke weed with Willie :)
A great man he is, but I have to put him third in the list of great country singers:
Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash take the top two
Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vaYOIKWYY
Hear hear, CD. I like Willie. Plus he shares my birthday (not birth year, though).
Anyone who's toked up on the roof of the White House is okay with me.
Years ago I didn't like him.
I didn't like his voice.
Today it sounds pleasent.
Same thing with Geddy Lee.
Willie Nelson - She's Gone, Gone, Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwRfSuzqSL0
lafin gas @ 3:
Thanks for the video. That's my uncle playing bass in the background.
How great was that? Willie Nelson represents all that is good about that lost,one time long ago, America.
Diana Krall, Elvis Costello & Willie Nelson - Crazy (Live)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5BnCEPr7cU
I've heard that smokin bud fights alzheimers...so....I guess this means Willie will never lose his bus huh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aur5KEaNtKc Emmylou and Willie...The Maker
Willie and the Grateful Dead
Kansas City, Arrowhead Stadium
July 1, 1978
To the right of me bikers eating mushrooms
To the left cowboys drinking grain alcohol they had smuggled in with a watermelon
completely diverse crowd and everyone got along
thanks Willie
Robin Williams had a great bit about Willie. Goes something like, "Willie's so mellow, if the Buddha ever met him, he'd be like, 'Whoa, that dude is laid back.'"
I got to see Willie and Emmylou Harris in concert, soon after Red-Headed Stranger was released. When Willie sang, "he cried like a baby, he screamed like a panther in the middle of the night," the men in the audience went wild and roared, as if to say, I know how that feels, I know exactly how that feels.
I'll never forget that night, the way Willie could touch people down to the marrow of their souls.
Yeah, Emmylou was incredible, too.
I don't usually get this far at the late night music club, I guess I'd have to say Willie brought me here. I'm not a member of the WN cult club but I'd like to say I think he's a high quality human.
On some recordings his voice is just not listenable, particular bad digital stuff. "Milk Cow Blues" is an exceptional recording, one which I sometimes pull out when doing equipment comparisons.
In my opinion, "Red Headed Stranger" (I've only heard the original vinyl) has to be one of the top 10 country albums ever.....on any ones list. It is a complete album in every way. The sound of the vinyl is sweet, an audiophile recording.
Others must also have an understanding of his timing that I can't grasp. Sometimes his guitar pickin' throws off my swayin while I'm listening.
I highly recommend the the two albums I've mentioned, to anyone. I hope someone who doesn't know Willie to try some, and I hope he makes a few bucks. I know you don't know me but trust me on this one. willie
I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfgZH8kFAKc
There were 4 posts from the time I started mine until I submitted it(interupted by countdown)
Willie_Dead, Emmy Lou, Robin Williams, Yea!
After getting into the mood with my post.....I felt every one of your posts in my body.
Willie Nelson - 1997 - Funny How Time Slips Away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZaZqx9v3dU
I never got into hardly any country music. But Willie is great. Seems like such a good person and I enjoy his music. This is my all time favorite country song, and these are the guys I consider the cream of the country crop:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_yyY1pe9dU
I was partial to this version.....
love willie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QI-1IYoveM&feature=related
Willie's a treat and so are the regular folks here in KC.. but too many Chamber of Commerce pics in that for my tastes.. so many of the regular folks here are African American and others of color.. I didn't see any in this video so that part was very disappointing and too many of the crazy women just looked like calculating voguettes.. and none of the cowboys and bikers that 'me Says' writes about above.. Folks that just had to be goin' to Kansas City weren't going to the Plaza..12th St. and Vine was wild and diverse, man!
Now thats a real Fuckin american patriot.
pardon the french.
A different kind of propaganda:
Hemp For Victory
Hemp For Victory
Go American Propaganda from Hell!
Reefer Madness
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236
Willie would approve of the above posts. Why? You figure it out.
Well, in particular Wille would never aprove of Reefer Madness but it sure as hell explains a lot of my parents' generation and it sure as hell is pathetic and hilarious and sad as it can possibly get. REEFER MADNESS!
NOT.
!
http://www.secretcowboys.com/
Gosh, Golly Gee Willakers. Heavens to Mergatroid. Watch and freak.
Or realize how propaganda makes older and more naive generations run around like iediots..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6696582420128930236
Banning the growing of hemp is a crime against humanity.
You know why? Hemp doesn't even get you high. It's an all versital weed that can be used for almost anything from soap to clothes.
This isn't even talking about the tiniest percentage of THC to get someone high.
So let's keep growing clothes and goods in plastics! That translates to a form of petroleum! But hey!
Don't get high! Take xanex, klonopin, zoloft, ritalin, vitalin and lots and lots of cocaine, GHP, heroine, opium, liquer and avoid pot at all costs.
Do it! Big Pharma will love you!
War Vets Fighting Addiction
Ray Charles Leon Russell Willie Nelson - A Song For You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sXGT0WhFnU
willie nelson and los lonely boys - war's very own cisco kid on skippy's late nite music club a few months ago.
Oh Willie. One of my favorite moments of the '06 campaign was when Willie Nelson stopped by Missouri, endorsed Claire McCaskill, and took a picture with her. So awesome =)
Makes me miss my lovely KC home...can't wait to go back soon!
I guess I misinterpreted Neil Young's song, "No Wonder," with the line "Willie stopped singing."
I thought, wow, Willie stopped singing? Too bad.
Glad to hear I was jumping to conclusions.
budda @ 2:
Country SINGERS? If you don't put Loretta Lynn ahead of him in your list, it's bullshit. She could sing the socks off of Willie, and he'd readily admit that.
Kansas City is one of the most anti marijuana cities in the nation. You can't buy paraphernalia, it's hard to even find rolling papers.
It's a cradle of neo-cons and it's a bad place to be.
Best advice to all is to avoid that place, seriously.
Cash and Nelson, song writers of renown. Singers they are not. Just like Kristofferson, Neil Young, and Dylan are not. Merle Haggard writer and singer. Jerry Garcia writer not a singer. Emmy Lou singer. Loretta Lynn More writer than singer. Dianna Krall singer. Robin Williams writer, singer, and sweet guitarist.
The confusion seems to be between a song writer and a song singer.
alex valgus @ 36 "Loretta Lynn More writer than singer."
What?
You are in the lower percentile of opinion on that, alex.
Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter singing," her vocalizing, is an internationally recognized icon of country music.
alex valgus @ 36:
They have been both stupendous singers, iconic singers. Johnny Cash's voice is known from farthest Tahiti to the cold frigid depths of Siberia.
Willie Nelson is a different kettle of fish because his voice is so strange. But his top songs are sung with such a unique tone that the instant correlary is Neil Young. Neither has the kind of voice that you'd think would be melodious. And yet....
willie nelson and ray charles seven spanish angels
Pancho and Lefty: Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson
Women In Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs
Willie Nelson - Maria (Shut Up And Kiss Me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWp3NTUqlg
Delerium - Aria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTJc3Kw_mlM
Delerium - Incantation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRL4DLqKmY&feature=related
Why are there so many songs about rainbows?
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions. But only illusions and rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know theyre wrong wait and see.
Someday you will find it...the rainbow Connection.. the lovers, the dreamers and me..
Willie Nelson - Rainbow Connection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX9E_D_HjBo
Listen to "Phases and Stages".
That's Willie at his finest.
Willie is a survivor, to be sure. Especially for someone who made a pretty decent career as a pop singer and couldn't sing a note in tune if his supply of ice cream depended on it.
lafin gas @ 18:
Now THERES a Youtube guitar lesson!!!
kulshan @ 22:
...and a Kucinich supporter to boot!
Kucinich '08!
Boy, not one comment about the great Susan Tedeschi? Willie is the man, of course, but Susan- alongside her superb guitarist/husband Derek Trucks- is a bona fide treasure as well.
budda @ 2:
Whoa there young fella, you mentioned some great ones but left out folks like Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frissell, Buck Owens, Patsy Cline, George Jones,... well I could go on and on. As you can see Merle, Johnny, and Willie have some fabulous company they keep.
MarkusB @ 4:
If for no other reason history will remember Willie as outlaw legend for that. :lol:
AbbeyHoffmansGhost @ 51:
Don't forget Waylon!
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