• Teatro: My attempt at winning the Willie Nelson Contest.

    Taylor W. Rushing Posted On August 8, 2009
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    The perfect mixture:

    1 part Daniel Lanois. Known as the acclaimed sound man behind Joshua Tree and Wrecking Ball, this homegrown maestro fills his tunes with scripted walls of noise laced with quip and layered vocal harmonies.

    1 part Emmylou Harris. The silver laden priestess of country armed with a wild, haunting voice.

    2parts Willie.

    Roll it all up together in an abandoned California movie theater and you have Teatro.

    With Trigger (his aged Spanish guitar) in one hand and a fresh spliff in the other, Nelson departed from




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