^I was thinking along the same lines but also that it's probably related to 'legal weed' as well as the easy proximity/access for musicians on the bill, the larger outdoor venue size for that time of year, etc.
Ah, yes. There he is, right at the top. Attention to detail is what I'm known for.
And honestly, it's almost certainly happening at the Hollywood Bowl with all those acts because someone at Blackbird Presents had the idea and pitched it to Live Nation, who threw a ton of dough at Willie to be there.
I still think it would be funny if Willie didn't show up and played in some bar in Austin.
Still, however glitzed up this deal is, it's nice they're doing it while he's still alive. So often these type of events happen as memorials.
Doolittle, that's what I was thinking. Most of his friends have passed on, but many remain. They just aren't big concert draws at this point.
I'm thinking this will be a lot like the Bob Dylan 30th show in '92, lots of bands coming and going, playing Willie covers, with him playing a short set at the end. Probably less like the 4th of July Picnics, where he comes out and plays with every band- not sure he has the stamina for that. But, if he does, it will be "Dope AF", as the kids say.
A little rich for my budget and schedule, but if it gets streamed, I'll custy up.
Stagecoach is the SAME weekend, Turtle. Proximity clause out the window? Competing or same promotor(s)? Many of the artists on the bill will already be in the area but also odd that the target audience is basically the same for both events. It may have made sense to simply add Willie to Stagecoach. Oh, that's right - Money Honey.
"Willie Nelson to celebrate 90th birthday with Los Angeles concerts during Stagecoach"
I stand corrected - looks like that $600 or so is per night, plus $120/ticket in fees. If you try to buy a single they put you in some Platinum section that is $2500.
Happy upcoming 90th to your Dad, Doc! Keep on Truckin'!
A friend went to the box office Saturday and was told single day tickets would be available on February 10, so they must still be holding back tickets. The box office did not know if daily lineups would be announced by then.
I lucked out in the Capital One pre-sale and got a pair of tickets for $780 all in. they are up there.....section M2......but given what i am seeing on StubHub and elsewhere I am pretty happy.
We are seeing Willie one week from tonight at the Frost on Stanford campus--minus all those other cats. I will say, I went to the Meadowlands on Labor Day 1978 with the NRPS, Wille and the Dead and Weir and Donna came out an joined Wille's band on Whiskey River--that was fun
(incomplete, missed a few THANK YOU FOR LIVESTREAMING CHARLIE MILLER ) Norah Jones piano tribute to Bobbie Nelson, NJ Ain't it Funny How Time Slips away, WH Midnight Rider, Roseanne Cash Loving Her Was Easier with Kris Kristofferson, Lukas Nelson Angel Flying Too Close Too The Ground, Owen Wilson talking about Willie, Leon Bridges and Eric Johnson on guitar Night Life (ain't no good life), Texas Flood Eric Johnson, more OW, Jack Johnson Willie Got Me Stoned And Took All My Money, Tyler Childers Healing Hands of Time, Ty Time of the Preacher Theme, Ziggy Marley Still is Still Moving to Me, Helen Mirrin intros-> Tom Jones Opportunity to Cry, Jaimey Johnson Live Forever, Bob Weir Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain with BMFS, Jennifer Garner announcing->The Chicks Bloody Mary Morning, Ethan Hawke intros Lumineers A Song for You, Nathaniel Rateliff The City of New Orleans, Sturgill Simpson I'd Have to Be Crazy, Miranda Lambert Mammas Don't Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, Chris Stapleton Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning-->CM's battery died don't know what we missed but Neil Young Long May You Run, For What It's Worth Stephen Stills and Young, Willie Micah NY and Stills Are There Any More Real Cowboys, Happy birthday Willie, Nelson Fam Band(?)Willie and George Straitt Sing One With Willie, Pancho and Lefty GS/WN, Snoop and Willie Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, On The Road Again with Lukas & Micah, everyone Will The Circle Be Unbroken, I'll Fly Away everyone, Oh Lord It's Hard to Be Humble>good night
Willie Nelson inhales the love at 90th birthday concert
By ANDREW DALTON
April 30, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Are there any more real cowboys?” Neil Young sang Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl on a rare evening when he was neither the headliner nor, at age 77, even close to the oldest artist on the bill.
Providing an instant answer, Willie Nelson, wearing a cowboy hat and red-white-and-blue guitar strap, slowly strolled on to the stage on his 90th birthday, bringing the crowd of more than 17,000 to its feet.
Nelson sat in a chair — one of the few onstage concessions he's made to age — and joined Young for the rest of their 1985 duet, “Are There Any More Real Cowboys?”
“I want to thank all the artists who came out tonight to help celebrate whatever it is we're celebrating,” said Nelson, feigning senility and getting a laugh.
The moment came three hours into the first of a two-night celebration of the country legend at the open-air Los Angeles amphitheater, where generations of stars sang his songs in tribute.
“As a kid growing up in Texas, it seemed like there was nothing bigger than Willie Nelson,” said Owen Wilson, one of the evening's emcees along with Helen Mirren, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Garner. “And looking out at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, it still feels like there's nothing bigger than Willie Nelson.”
After Young, Nelson brought out George Strait, a country superstar of the following generation, for their self-referential duet, “Sing One With Willie,” followed by the Willie perennial, “Pancho and Lefty,” with Strait singing the part once played by the late Merle Haggard.
Nelson then shouted, “Come out and roll one with me Snoop!”
Strutting out came rapper Snoop Dogg, sitting next to Nelson as they launched into their stoner anthem, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die." Perhaps fittingly, each seemed to forget the words at times. The two friends looked too happy to care.
“Somebody make some noise for the legend Mr. Willie Nelson!” Snoop shouted mid-song.
The parade of partners illustrated one of the night's themes: Willie brings people together.
“All of the sudden, it didn't matter if you were a hillbilly or a hippie, everyone was a Willie Nelson fan," Wilson said of Nelson's late-blooming emergence as a singing superstar when he left Nashville, Tennessee, and returned to his native Texas in the 1970s. “Even the Dalai Lama is a Willie Nelson fan. It's true."
The crowd, which ranged from small children to seniors, illustrated the point. The stands were dotted with cowboy hats while hippies danced in the aisles and weed smoke wafted in the air.
Miranda Lambert thrilled them with a rousing, sing-along version of “Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” Nelson's 1978 hit with Waylon Jennings. The Chicks blazed through 1970's “Bloody Mary Morning” at the same break-neck pace that Willie and his Family Band played it live in their prime.
Nelson has outlived nearly every member of that band, which backed him for decades of constant touring and recording. His little sister and piano player, Bobbie Nelson, died last year. She got her own tribute from Norah Jones, who banged the keys through the younger Nelson's saloon-style solo song, “Down Yonder,” from Willie Nelson's definitive 1975 album, “Red Headed Stranger.”
While many of the women who took the stage played rousing rockers, most of the men went in for quiet emotion.
Chris Stapleton kept his guitar at his side through a soft, reflective rendition of “Always on My Mind," Nelson's biggest solo hit of the 1980s. Nelson's son Lukas sang “Angel Flying Too Close to The Ground” alone with his acoustic guitar, his voice a dead ringer for his dad's.
Another surviving member of the Family Band, harmonica master Mickey Raphael, was part of the weekend's house band, led by Don Was, which backed almost everyone.
Nelson also has outlived most of his classic collaborators. But an essential one, his 86-year-old Highwaymen bandmate Kris Kristofferson, made it to the stage to join Rosanne Cash, the daughter of another Highwayman: Johnny Cash.
Rosanne Cash was singing Nelson's “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)” when Kristofferson, who wrote the song, came out and harmonized with her on the choruses.
Nelson's musical diversity was another evening theme.
“He blends and bends genres," Mirren said from the stage. “His timing and categories are his own.”
Leon Bridges' “Night Life” showed off Nelson's affinity for the blues, as did Jones' jazzy trip through “Funny How Time Slips Away” from 1961, when Nelson was known primarily as a songwriter of hits for others.
Ziggy Marley sang “Still Is Still Moving To Me,” which Nelson recorded in 1993 and later sang with Toots and the Maytals in one of his occasional forays into reggae. Marley shouted “Wee-lay!” in his Jamaican accent during the song.
Sunday's night show will feature a whole different range of acts including Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow and Emmylou Harris.
Young first took the stage with his early collaborator Stephen Stills. The pair played a revved up version of “For What It's Worth,” swapping guitar solos on the classic hit they made as members of Buffalo Springfield in 1966.
Nelson brought out all the evening's artists to join him for the Carter Family's 1935 song, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” a longtime live favorite of his and the classic closing song for all of country music.
It was clearly intended to be the end, as Hawke took the mic and started to thank everyone for coming.
But the 90-year-old wasn't ready to stop. He interrupted and broke into Mac Davis' “It’s Hard to Be Humble,” which Nelson and his sons recorded in 2019.
It was a funny choice for a final song, but its chorus was a perfect comic coda for a man who had been drowned in adoration all night:
“To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble. But I'm doing the best that I can."
I really do think Willie Nelson is one of the very most important musicians of our lifetime. Maybe there are two or three others at most that could be in this discussion
The man is completely self made. He has recorded albums across seven decades now, smashing barriers and expectations every time along the way
His songwriting is as American as the Declaration of Independence. His songs are on every radio, in every genre, in every town, and will always be sung by someone, somewhere, forever
In the future; (country) musicians will be measured by either having played, or not having played with Willie Nelson
> His little sister and piano player, Bobbie Nelson, died last year.
If you haven't read Me and Sister Bobbie by Willie and Bobbie, I highly recommend it. It's written in chapters that alternate between the siblings, and Bobbie's story is as compelling as Willie's.
Doh! Make that Shaver's "Live Forever". That's what happens when I have that extra pint at the brewpub to celebrate the Kraken's decisive Game 7 win over the Avalanche. Sorry Colorado Zoner family.
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wow willie
wow willie
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It looks like going one night
It looks like going one night is not an option.
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It looks like going one night
It looks like going one night is not an option.
How could it be with that lineup?
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Right!!
Right!!
Anybody want to split a travel package?
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There goes $500. Maybe it'll
There goes $500. Maybe it'll be streamed too.
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> There goes $500.
> There goes $500.
That's what I was thinking. For two nights in a cheap seat.
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This will be Neil Young's
This will be Neil Young's first show since COVID, unless there is some sort of tribute show for David Crosby in the works.
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Haha I just posted that in
Haha I just posted that in the other thread. I didn't realize
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vibes to all the custys who
vibes to all the custys who already blew their April wad on that one festival
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It's a little odd to me that
It's a little odd to me that this is happening in Hollywood. Nothing says Willie Nelson & country music like Snoop Dogg in Hollywood.
It also doesn't say anywhere that Willie will be there. I suppose that's assumed. It would be funny if he didn't show up.
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Willie Nelson is the first
Willie Nelson is the first performer on the list.
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^I was thinking along the
^I was thinking along the same lines but also that it's probably related to 'legal weed' as well as the easy proximity/access for musicians on the bill, the larger outdoor venue size for that time of year, etc.
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Ah, yes. There he is, right
Ah, yes. There he is, right at the top. Attention to detail is what I'm known for.
And honestly, it's almost certainly happening at the Hollywood Bowl with all those acts because someone at Blackbird Presents had the idea and pitched it to Live Nation, who threw a ton of dough at Willie to be there.
I still think it would be funny if Willie didn't show up and played in some bar in Austin.
Still, however glitzed up this deal is, it's nice they're doing it while he's still alive. So often these type of events happen as memorials.
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Um, Willie and Snoop are
Um, Willie and Snoop are personal friends and multiple time recording partners
carry on
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Lotta people close to Willie
Lotta people close to Willie not on that list.
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stagecoach is around the same
stagecoach is around the same time. all these artists come through and usually have gigs in the areas as well.
that is why it is here.
ps. Willie rocked a Dodgers jersey last Hollywood Bowl show.
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Doolittle, that's what I was
Doolittle, that's what I was thinking. Most of his friends have passed on, but many remain. They just aren't big concert draws at this point.
I'm thinking this will be a lot like the Bob Dylan 30th show in '92, lots of bands coming and going, playing Willie covers, with him playing a short set at the end. Probably less like the 4th of July Picnics, where he comes out and plays with every band- not sure he has the stamina for that. But, if he does, it will be "Dope AF", as the kids say.
A little rich for my budget and schedule, but if it gets streamed, I'll custy up.
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Proximity clause out the
Stagecoach is the SAME weekend, Turtle. Proximity clause out the window? Competing or same promotor(s)? Many of the artists on the bill will already be in the area but also odd that the target audience is basically the same for both events. It may have made sense to simply add Willie to Stagecoach. Oh, that's right - Money Honey.
"Willie Nelson to celebrate 90th birthday with Los Angeles concerts during Stagecoach"
https://news.yahoo.com/willie-nelson-celebrate-90th-birthday-012020597.html
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How about those insane ticket
How about those insane ticket prices?
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Name a heavier hitting lineup
Name a heavier hitting lineup
and still more to be announced?
It's $400 (not including the $500+ ticket) just to sleep in your car at the grateful dead bar band fest
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Currently $624 is the lowest
Currently $624 is the lowest price for a set (both nights) @ 'Verified Resale'
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My fathers 90th is May 30th.
My fathers 90th is May 30th.
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StubHub has tickets for $500
StubHub has tickets for $500 in the top section, and they have some down front for about $12k.
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I stand corrected - looks
I stand corrected - looks like that $600 or so is per night, plus $120/ticket in fees. If you try to buy a single they put you in some Platinum section that is $2500.
Happy upcoming 90th to your Dad, Doc! Keep on Truckin'!
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Happy 90th to your Dad, Doc.
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A friend went to the box
A friend went to the box office Saturday and was told single day tickets would be available on February 10, so they must still be holding back tickets. The box office did not know if daily lineups would be announced by then.
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I lucked out in the Capital
I lucked out in the Capital One pre-sale and got a pair of tickets for $780 all in. they are up there.....section M2......but given what i am seeing on StubHub and elsewhere I am pretty happy.
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> The box office did not know
> The box office did not know if daily lineups would be announced by then.
When I got the first notification of this from Billy Strings, the only date mentioned was the first night, April 29th.
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^that was what Weir's page
^that was what Weir's page showed initially but now it shows both dates
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Willie Nelson is way bigger
Willie Nelson is way bigger than country music.
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Indeed.
Indeed.
I think this event could be the kind of thing people will tell their kids about one day.
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Single day tickets are
Single day tickets are finally about to be released.
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i'd really like to see the
i'd really like to see the childers/crockett show in SB...but is way sold out and super expensive like this and is on a W night.
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Good luck, turts. TC is a
Good luck, turts. TC is a superstar. I wish I'd seen him perform live before he got short haired, sober, and jesusy.
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Hmm, I'll be in SoCal that
Hmm, I'll be in SoCal that weekend, we shall see if the stars align..
Who has an extra for Sat nite?
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love this, and him
love this, and him
(((((((90!)))))))))
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We are seeing Willie one week
We are seeing Willie one week from tonight at the Frost on Stanford campus--minus all those other cats. I will say, I went to the Meadowlands on Labor Day 1978 with the NRPS, Wille and the Dead and Weir and Donna came out an joined Wille's band on Whiskey River--that was fun
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maybe Billy String will swing
maybe Billy Strings will swing by the Frost and play with Willie.. on his way to LA?
a girl can dream..
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Nancy, dream big or go home-
Nancy, dream big or go home--maybe Molly Tuttle and Willie at the Frost......
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Ok! I'll take them both. And
Ok! I'll take them both. And each have nothing listed for that date on their tour schedule.
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upper seats 4 bones...
top of the bowl, 4 bones...
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Willie just added a bunch of
Willie just added a bunch of new dates to the Outlaw Festival, including a bunch with the Wolf Bros., Los Lobos, and SCI:
https://www.jambase.com/article/willie-nelson-outlaw-music-festival-tour...
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Live stream from off FB
Live stream from off FB
https://www.facebook.com/charliemiller87/videos/1085778648857288
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Needs a FB login. :-(
Needs a FB login. :-(
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Yea boy
Yea boy
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https://www.facebook.com
https://www.facebook.com/charliemiller87/videos/1664674177384724
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Live updates:
Live updates:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-04-29/willie...
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(incomplete, missed a few
(incomplete, missed a few THANK YOU FOR LIVESTREAMING CHARLIE MILLER ) Norah Jones piano tribute to Bobbie Nelson, NJ Ain't it Funny How Time Slips away, WH Midnight Rider, Roseanne Cash Loving Her Was Easier with Kris Kristofferson, Lukas Nelson Angel Flying Too Close Too The Ground, Owen Wilson talking about Willie, Leon Bridges and Eric Johnson on guitar Night Life (ain't no good life), Texas Flood Eric Johnson, more OW, Jack Johnson Willie Got Me Stoned And Took All My Money, Tyler Childers Healing Hands of Time, Ty Time of the Preacher Theme, Ziggy Marley Still is Still Moving to Me, Helen Mirrin intros-> Tom Jones Opportunity to Cry, Jaimey Johnson Live Forever, Bob Weir Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain with BMFS, Jennifer Garner announcing->The Chicks Bloody Mary Morning, Ethan Hawke intros Lumineers A Song for You, Nathaniel Rateliff The City of New Orleans, Sturgill Simpson I'd Have to Be Crazy, Miranda Lambert Mammas Don't Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, Chris Stapleton Last Thing I Needed First Thing This Morning-->CM's battery died don't know what we missed but Neil Young Long May You Run, For What It's Worth Stephen Stills and Young, Willie Micah NY and Stills Are There Any More Real Cowboys, Happy birthday Willie, Nelson Fam Band(?)Willie and George Straitt Sing One With Willie, Pancho and Lefty GS/WN, Snoop and Willie Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, On The Road Again with Lukas & Micah, everyone Will The Circle Be Unbroken, I'll Fly Away everyone, Oh Lord It's Hard to Be Humble>good night
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bobby crushed it
bobby crushed it
https://youtu.be/JA644rSZX1A
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Bob Weir
Bob Weir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlodV1WSP0M
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Billy Strings Whiskey River
Billy Strings Whiskey River
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1w8PjYW7w086DAWKTNuJLsPsFo8rzmXvB...
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Willie + Snoop
Willie + Snoop
Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die
https://youtu.be/UPLmKaIHBzI
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Willie Nelson inhales the love at 90th birthday concert
By ANDREW DALTON
April 30, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Are there any more real cowboys?” Neil Young sang Saturday night at the Hollywood Bowl on a rare evening when he was neither the headliner nor, at age 77, even close to the oldest artist on the bill.
Providing an instant answer, Willie Nelson, wearing a cowboy hat and red-white-and-blue guitar strap, slowly strolled on to the stage on his 90th birthday, bringing the crowd of more than 17,000 to its feet.
Nelson sat in a chair — one of the few onstage concessions he's made to age — and joined Young for the rest of their 1985 duet, “Are There Any More Real Cowboys?”
“I want to thank all the artists who came out tonight to help celebrate whatever it is we're celebrating,” said Nelson, feigning senility and getting a laugh.
The moment came three hours into the first of a two-night celebration of the country legend at the open-air Los Angeles amphitheater, where generations of stars sang his songs in tribute.
“As a kid growing up in Texas, it seemed like there was nothing bigger than Willie Nelson,” said Owen Wilson, one of the evening's emcees along with Helen Mirren, Ethan Hawke and Jennifer Garner. “And looking out at the Hollywood Bowl tonight, it still feels like there's nothing bigger than Willie Nelson.”
After Young, Nelson brought out George Strait, a country superstar of the following generation, for their self-referential duet, “Sing One With Willie,” followed by the Willie perennial, “Pancho and Lefty,” with Strait singing the part once played by the late Merle Haggard.
Nelson then shouted, “Come out and roll one with me Snoop!”
Strutting out came rapper Snoop Dogg, sitting next to Nelson as they launched into their stoner anthem, “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die." Perhaps fittingly, each seemed to forget the words at times. The two friends looked too happy to care.
“Somebody make some noise for the legend Mr. Willie Nelson!” Snoop shouted mid-song.
The parade of partners illustrated one of the night's themes: Willie brings people together.
“All of the sudden, it didn't matter if you were a hillbilly or a hippie, everyone was a Willie Nelson fan," Wilson said of Nelson's late-blooming emergence as a singing superstar when he left Nashville, Tennessee, and returned to his native Texas in the 1970s. “Even the Dalai Lama is a Willie Nelson fan. It's true."
The crowd, which ranged from small children to seniors, illustrated the point. The stands were dotted with cowboy hats while hippies danced in the aisles and weed smoke wafted in the air.
Miranda Lambert thrilled them with a rousing, sing-along version of “Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” Nelson's 1978 hit with Waylon Jennings. The Chicks blazed through 1970's “Bloody Mary Morning” at the same break-neck pace that Willie and his Family Band played it live in their prime.
Nelson has outlived nearly every member of that band, which backed him for decades of constant touring and recording. His little sister and piano player, Bobbie Nelson, died last year. She got her own tribute from Norah Jones, who banged the keys through the younger Nelson's saloon-style solo song, “Down Yonder,” from Willie Nelson's definitive 1975 album, “Red Headed Stranger.”
While many of the women who took the stage played rousing rockers, most of the men went in for quiet emotion.
Chris Stapleton kept his guitar at his side through a soft, reflective rendition of “Always on My Mind," Nelson's biggest solo hit of the 1980s. Nelson's son Lukas sang “Angel Flying Too Close to The Ground” alone with his acoustic guitar, his voice a dead ringer for his dad's.
Another surviving member of the Family Band, harmonica master Mickey Raphael, was part of the weekend's house band, led by Don Was, which backed almost everyone.
Nelson also has outlived most of his classic collaborators. But an essential one, his 86-year-old Highwaymen bandmate Kris Kristofferson, made it to the stage to join Rosanne Cash, the daughter of another Highwayman: Johnny Cash.
Rosanne Cash was singing Nelson's “Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)” when Kristofferson, who wrote the song, came out and harmonized with her on the choruses.
Nelson's musical diversity was another evening theme.
“He blends and bends genres," Mirren said from the stage. “His timing and categories are his own.”
Leon Bridges' “Night Life” showed off Nelson's affinity for the blues, as did Jones' jazzy trip through “Funny How Time Slips Away” from 1961, when Nelson was known primarily as a songwriter of hits for others.
Ziggy Marley sang “Still Is Still Moving To Me,” which Nelson recorded in 1993 and later sang with Toots and the Maytals in one of his occasional forays into reggae. Marley shouted “Wee-lay!” in his Jamaican accent during the song.
Sunday's night show will feature a whole different range of acts including Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow and Emmylou Harris.
Young first took the stage with his early collaborator Stephen Stills. The pair played a revved up version of “For What It's Worth,” swapping guitar solos on the classic hit they made as members of Buffalo Springfield in 1966.
Nelson brought out all the evening's artists to join him for the Carter Family's 1935 song, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” a longtime live favorite of his and the classic closing song for all of country music.
It was clearly intended to be the end, as Hawke took the mic and started to thank everyone for coming.
But the 90-year-old wasn't ready to stop. He interrupted and broke into Mac Davis' “It’s Hard to Be Humble,” which Nelson and his sons recorded in 2019.
It was a funny choice for a final song, but its chorus was a perfect comic coda for a man who had been drowned in adoration all night:
“To know me is to love me, I must be a hell of a man. Oh lord, it's hard to be humble. But I'm doing the best that I can."
[apnews.com]
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Absolutely stunning concert.
Absolutely stunning concert. Once in a lifetime experience! Looking forward to tonight!
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Hoping for a more
Hoping for a more professional recording. Most of these youtube clips are sub-standard sound quality.
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I do think Willie Nelson is
I really do think Willie Nelson is one of the very most important musicians of our lifetime. Maybe there are two or three others at most that could be in this discussion
The man is completely self made. He has recorded albums across seven decades now, smashing barriers and expectations every time along the way
His songwriting is as American as the Declaration of Independence. His songs are on every radio, in every genre, in every town, and will always be sung by someone, somewhere, forever
In the future; (country) musicians will be measured by either having played, or not having played with Willie Nelson
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>Hoping for a more
>Hoping for a more professional recording
Custie up for the forthcoming DVD
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Keith Richards appearing
Keith Richards appearing tonight?
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thanks for the fb link.
thanks for the fb link.
kinda a lot of down time between artists.
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can't even hear tyler over
can't even hear tyler over the drunkin' chatter. la on a sat night...
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> His little sister and piano
> His little sister and piano player, Bobbie Nelson, died last year.
If you haven't read Me and Sister Bobbie by Willie and Bobbie, I highly recommend it. It's written in chapters that alternate between the siblings, and Bobbie's story is as compelling as Willie's.
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Yes, thanks for the link,
Yes, thanks for the link, Noodler. Some annoying chatter but mostly sounded good. Is that from THE Charlie Miller?
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Keith Richards appearing
Keith Richards appearing tonight?
He's slated for 9:35 tonight
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Wow.
Wow.
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Heads Up, Charlie Miller is
Heads Up, Charlie Miller is live NOW again tonight
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https://www.facebook.com
https://www.facebook.com/100000611949788/videos/739253734658674/
link to Charlie's FB stream
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Looks like he's only
Looks like he's only streaming a tune at a time
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Woody Harrelson, Bob Weir and
Woody Harrelson, Bob Weir and Billy Strings
https://www.facebook.com/100000611949788/videos/242086231816850/
( ^ Saw that he'd posted that on FB earlier)
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Keef on next?
Keef on next?
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Night 2 live updates:
Night 2 live updates:
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2023-04-30/willie...
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Dueting on Waylon Jennings' "We Had It All".
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Willie and Keith on Waylon's
Willie and Keith on Waylon's "We Had It All" and Billy Joe Shaver's "We Had It All:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAZ2ZxBeh8&pp=ygU5d2lsbGllIG5lbHNvbiA5MHR...
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Doh! Make that Shaver's
Doh! Make that Shaver's "Live Forever". That's what happens when I have that extra pint at the brewpub to celebrate the Kraken's decisive Game 7 win over the Avalanche. Sorry Colorado Zoner family.
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Keith Richards and Willy
Keith Richards and Willy
https://www.facebook.com/vickiabelson/videos/1433378914076162
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Keith looked like he was having a great time last night, and sounded magnificent. So cool to see him looking so healthy.
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Billy + Willie
Billy + Willie
California Sober
https://youtu.be/DoeEEHcp85Q
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Every track for the most part
Every track for the most part reminded me of how great Willie is as is as I didn’t hear one performance that rose to his level.
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Gorgeous. Striking photo,
Gorgeous. Striking photo, just exactly perfect.
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2 THUMBS Up All Around.
2 THUMBS Up All Around.
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This is great
This is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTPd2qTovSQ
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Jay Blakesberg pics and story
Jay Blakesberg pics and story on Insta... more Keef shots
https://www.instagram.com/p/Crymj1WuPht/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
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What a great thread, Lots of
What a great thread, Lots of cool photos. And thanks for that article above Herbal Dave. It was great.
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https:/
https://willienelson90experience.com/?fbclid=IwAR2yLyDsPuF6oGMVjN2RvhWiH...