“I saw the light from heaven shining all around.” –Dry Bones, traditional, as performed by Graham Lindsey This weekend we endured the shortest day of the year — all about the darkness and all about the light. The glass is […]
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The work of creating a Best-of-the-Year list can be a strange experience. In a phone interview today with Keb’ Mo’ we moaned together about how to respond to these year-end lists. Of course, he has a lot of room to moan […]
Someday, somebody with great taste, and no desire to be all things to all markets, is going to put together a Best Of Willie Nelson box. Because nobody’s taste is absolute, fans like me and you will question some of […]
Willie Nelson’s willingness to record anything with anyone at any time can yield stunning results, most notably his recent Last Of The Breed collaboration with Merle Haggard and Ray Price, and similar team efforts with peers. Results on other occasions […]
Beyond the accurate (if somewhat pretentious) title of this two-CD set is a fetching homage to Texas music by three icons — two Texans and one Bakersfielder whose music is so steeped in Texas he might as well be a […]
Let’s just say Willie Nelson is no stranger to collaboration. His rolodex extends from Bob Dylan to Toby Keith. The 73-year-old troubadour is as active as ever, having released the quietly charming Cindy Walker tribute You Don’t Know Me earlier […]
Willie Nelson had completed eight frustrating, hit-and-miss years with RCA in 1972 when a chance meeting with a longtime fan, Atlantic’s legendary vice-president/producer Jerry Wexler, who loved all things country, changed everything. With Atlantic opening a country division, Willie would […]
Nineteen forty-one was Cindy Walker’s year. The 23-year-old Texas singer-songwriter moved to Hollywood, where Bing Crosby recorded one of her songs and Decca Records signed her as a vocalist. Hearing that Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys were in town […]
When Willie Nelson dueted with Toots Hibbert on “Still Is Still Moving To Me”, a tune written by Nelson but performed on Toots & the Maytals’ 2004 album True Love, it wasn’t merely an occasion to wonder which singer brought […]
Ray Price’s greatest commercial success came in the late 1960s, riding the fading swell of the countrypolitan sound that emerged out of Nashville studios in the late ’50s and threatened to take what was then known as country & western […]
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