I don't like Country but I like Willie Nelson - Am I so wrong?

He just does it with....um, style...

Style you don't see in Brooks and Dunn, or any other generic Country and Western band

...I grew up with country music but only took to certain people like Willie Nelson, whom I've seen twice live, once with his full band and the other time just him and his old guitar. Incredible on so many levels, a beautiful artist and performer.

I always thought it was a shame he and the dead never toured together...

The kind with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and of course Willie!


I even like Garth!

check out soma.fm, the boot liquor channel, great mix of old and alternative

http://somafm.com/play/bootliquor

I love Dale Watson and Wayne Hancock

They play all kinds of music I like, including old country and, appropriately, Lounge :D

Not on the same station, but on one of the channels...My favs are Drone Zone, Space Station, Digitalis, Suburbs of Goa, Boot Liquor or "American Roots Rock", they also play John Doe.

then I would not have found you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfBxfltYD0

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Hard to post this.. it.. uhh.. well..

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...kind of in the same way that Jerry Garcia wasn;t a "rock and roll guitar player" and the Grateful Dead were not / are not a "rock and roll band."

A good example is his "Stardust" album, filled with songs by Hoagy Carmichael, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, George & Ira Gershwin...

...certainly not a "Country" album, but long considered one of his most successful genre-hopping experiments.

I saw him in concert, with Emmylou Harris as his opening act. At the time he had a couple of other similarities to the Grateful Dead...L-O-N-G sets (he played for three hours) and these "medleys" that weren't really medleys in the strict sense, because he'd take a half dozen songs and segue them together, each played in its entirety.

I'd have to say that "liking Country music" isn't a prerequisite for appreciating Willie. In his world, it's a launching pad, npot a quality that defines him in black and white terms.

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...Willie's version with Merle has long been a favorite. I love Emmylou's version, too, but Willie took ownership of this song in the same way that Hendrix took ownership of "All Along The Watchtower."



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...and as much as I hate to admit it, Townes...in his lifetime...was under my radar as a performer. I knew the name, I knew the songs, and the first time I heard him was a few years ago, on cable, when they showed "Be Here To Love Me"...

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4MjgxNjU4M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjUwMTkzMQ@@._V1._SX270_SY400_.jpg

I probably would have been a fan of Townes in his lifetime in the same way that I was a fan of Gram Parsons, but the direct exposure never happened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtzgwNDZAs4&feature=related
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...they once had an amazing performance of Chet Atkins backing Cheryl Wheeler and a male vocalist I don;t remember on the Nino Tempo-April Stevens hit "Deep Purple"...it was one of those "hair stands up on the back of the arms" performances, and for my money, "American Music Shop" was probably the single finest showcase for this kind of music at the time.

So the chances of my having seen this clip when it originally aired are pretty good.

I also noticed that directly to the right of the clip is the link for Steve Earle's version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPOOE02sovk

...and a second Earle performance of the song, "From the in store performance at Cactus Records in Houston on 5/16/09"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIsuNgdap84

...and again, 5-18-09 Austin at Waterloo Records in Austin, cd release show for "Townes"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfygO7NfIDU

...and Steve Earle & Emmylou's duet on Townes' "If I Needed You"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SysBazd50D8

...and finally, a more recent Emmylou performance of "Pancho" from Mountain Winery in Saratoga, 7-27-08... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3xRw1RBmFI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63A__INJecI

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Sorry, Colbert, but Willie's is better!

It is one of the most soulless genres of music out there (next to pop and christian rock). It's music for people that hate music and enjoy commercial crap.

There are very few Country artists that even deserve to be recorded.

country has been music for white suburban soccer moms that used to be into Winger. Sentimental arena rock with twang and the occasional fiddle or pedal steel.

It definitely wakes me up in a heartbeat and I know that I'm not going to roll over and fall asleep listening to it. I'm going to get up and turn that damn crap off! No snooze alarmm either. I don't want to hear it go off more than once.

-- Tim Wilson

by a great many so called music 'lovers' in this country. You, my friend, show great taste and sophistication in your choice to admire Willie! :toast:

live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-wJNpWgss8
studio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq5X-p2C0Y&feature=related

Willie Nelson stated on the 1993 documentary Remembering Patsy that Cline's version of "Crazy" was his favorite song of his that anybody had ever recorded because it "was a lot of magic."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_%28Willie_Nelson_song%29

...Waylon and Willie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbcIF1J_jnI

Miss you, Waylon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVM2MgJnwgc

Outlaw country
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_country

I like Willie Nelson too, but I don't like C&W.

Willie's rendition of "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" in The Electric Horseman was superb. :thumbsup:

There are plenty more good ones where Willie came from. IMO the golden age of country was roughly the same years as the golden age of rock-n-roll, 50s and early 60s. A show like Town Hall Party from that era featured both kinds of music, often with a blurred distinction.

actually, I think much of it is wonderful poetry (NOT the "I killed my dog & my granny is in prison, and my pickup is cool, etc)

Can you say Trisha Yearwood? Kim Richey? Mary Chapin Carpenter?

And hey, Brookes & Dunn are GOOD, terrific rockers and makers of great dance music.

But I'm from Oklahoma. Whaddya expect?

I've seen him in concert a few times. The last time I went with my daughter and she was really surprised to learn how many songs he had written for other performers. He's a classic.