Willie Nelson

WILLIE NELSON – 90-Year Old Country Icon Gears Up For His 75th Solo Album Titled ‘THE BORDER’

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New striking strokes

19 March 2024

Imperishable, non-stop 90-year-old country music-maker WILLIE NELSON has
his 75th solo album (his 152nd overall, including collaborations, soundtracks, and
compilations) recorded. It’s named THE BORDER and is slated for release on May 31.
One month (29 April) following his 91st birthday.


Album artwork

Willie Nelson recorded the album with producer and longtime collaborator Buddy Cannon. It includes four new songs that they wrote together, as well as some new ones written by songwriters that Nelson admires, including Shawn Camp, Mike Reid, and Bobby Tomberlin.

On the other hand the first single and title track isn’t a new song. It’s one composed by Rodney Crowell, another Texan country veteran, first released five years ago. It’s a smooth, romantic musing, it’s Willie Nelson alright.

THE BORDER

No rest for Nelson.

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Soulful Sunday With The 151st (Yes, 151) WILLIE NELSON Longplayer ‘BLUEGRASS’

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Lazy music for the laziest day of the week

17 September 2023

The Texan country icon WILLIE NELSON
celebrated his 90th birthday last April.

And last Friday, the imperishable songsmith star released his 151st LP, yes 151.
I guess this must be a Guinness World Record (note to myself: look it up). His very
first LP, titled …And Then I Wrote appeared in 1962. That means that, the new one included, Nelson released 2,5 albums a year in his career. One wonders how he still
had the time to love so many girls.

Anyway. The new LP is titled BLUEGRASS. It features
12 bluegrass interpretations of 12 of his own classics.

It’s Sunday, the day my ears want to recover from the noise
they had to endure all week long. Enter Willie Nelson.

Time to relax.

WILLIE NELSON: Discography – Website

Soulful Sunday With Living Country Legend WILLIE NELSON Who Celebrates His 90th Birthday

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

30 April 2023

Living country legend WILLIE HUGH NELSON was
born on 29 April 1933 in Abbott, Texas. Happy 90!

Nelson was also political activist. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country,
a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Big name stars praised/praise
Nelson for his music and his humanist vision.

He recorded/released no less than 73 albums (so far) with I Don’t Know A Thing
About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard that came out last March (steam below).

One of his biggest hits was the splendiferous
1961 ballad CRAZY (covered by countless artists).

Happy B. Willie!

WN: Bio – Discography – Website

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(Image on top: the cover of his 1996 album ‘Spirit’)

Almost 90 And WILLIE NELSON Is ‘BUSTED’

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18 January 2023

Next April country-pop-rock-folk-blues icon WILLIE NELSON turns 90 but no signs
to slow down. On the contrary, he will celebrate his birthday with a new longplayer,
named I DON’T KNOW A THING ABOUT LOVE.

A tribute album, to an old peer, the late country star HARLAN HOWARD with
Nelson covering 10 of his songs. His son Micah designed the LP’s artwork.

The first taster is BUSTED, a 1961 Howard penned tune.

Tap your feet, nod your head and get lazy to the blues.

Original

WILLIE NELSON: Facebook – Website

(Image: cover of his ‘Spirit’ LP)

Goosebumps When THE KILLS Cover 1961 WILLIE NELSON Pearl

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13 July 2021

Band: THE KILLS
Song: CRAZY
Written: by country legend Willie Nelson in 1961.
Patsy Cline was the first artist (many followed) to
record the ballad and to score a hit with it in 1961.

Here’s the goosebumps version of The Kills…

The first artist who covered the beauty…

The author’s – Willie Nelson – version…

KAREN O And WILLIE NELSON Team Up UNDER PRESSURE And Sound Totally Bewitching

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1 November 2020

WILLIE NELSON and KAREN O joined the
daily list of artists covering other artists.

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ frontwoman was overwhelmed
when she heard that country legend Willie Nelson agreed
to do a duet.

“At this point my mind was melting but I had to focus and pull a song
out of the ether that was worthy of a living legend and spoke to the people
in troubled times, not an easy assignment. Like a bolt out of the blue ‘Under
Pressure’ came to mind. I’ve heard this song countless times without processing
the gravity of what Bowie and Freddie were singing about, maybe because their
performances are so exhilarating you get swept away in the high of that duet.”

It’s the terror of knowing what the world is about
Watching some good friends screaming
“Let me out!”
Pray tomorrow gets me higher
Pressure on people, people on streets

KAREN O: Facebook