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Willie has just announced a new round of dates! Fan club members get first access to tickets, secure your ticket to the show with a membership to Club Luck! Already a member? Grab your presale code from your Account page after login, then head to the tour page for the presale link.

Club Luck Members can access Presale Tickets starting on Tuesday, Nov. 14^th @ 10am local time by using your unique fan club password.

Fri. Jan. 5^th, 2018
Desert Diamond Casino in Sahuarita, AZ
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/24
PRESALE LINK

Wed. Jan. 10^th, 2018
Graton Resort and Casino in Rohnert Park, CA
With special guest Lukas Nelson
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/17
PRESALE LINK

Wed. Feb. 7^th, 2018
Macon City Auditorium in Macon, GA
With special guest Los Lonely Boys
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/17
PRESALE LINK

Sat. Feb. 10^th, 2018
Marina Civic Center in Panama City, FL
With special guest Los Lonely Boys
Presale begins: Wed. 11/15 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/17
PRESALE LINK

Mon. Feb. 12^th, 2018
Germain Arena in Estero, FL
With special guest Los Lonely Boys
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/17
PRESALE LINK

Tue. Feb. 13^th, 2018
Pompano Beach Amphitheater in Pompano Beach, FL
With special guest Los Lonely Boys
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/17
PRESALE LINK

Thu. Feb. 15^th, 2018
Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, FL
With special guest Los Lonely Boys
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/18
PRESALE LINK

Sun. Feb. 18^th, 2018
St. Augustine Amphitheatre in St. Augustine, FL
With special guest Los Lonely Boys
Presale begins: Tue. 11/14 @ 10am
Public onsale: Tue. 11/17
PRESALE LINK

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's new collaboration album

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's new collaboration album 'Django and Jimmie'

HITS STORES JUNE 2ND!

14 fresh studio tracks including the title track about Django Reindhardt and Jimmie Rodgers.

Helmed by Willie's longtime producer, collaborator and friend Buddy Cannon, Django and Jimmie premieres 14 brand-new studio recordings including: "Django and Jimmie," a dual tribute to jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers, country music's mythic "Singing Brakeman"; the reflective and meditative "Live This Long"; "Missing Ol' Johnny Cash," an homage to country music's original Man in Black featuring guest vocals from Bobby Bare; a sublime interpretation of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright"; and the future outlaw country classic "Unfair Weather Friend," written by rising songsmiths Marla Cannon-Goodman (Buddy Cannon's daughter) and Ward Davis.

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
Django and Jimmie

Django and Jimmie – written by Jimmy Melton and Jeff Prince
It's All Going To Pot – written by Buddy Cannon, Jamey Johnson and Larry Shell
Unfair Weather Friend - written by Marla Cannon-Goodman and Ward Davis
Missing Ol' Johnny Cash - written by Merle Haggard
Live This Long – written by Shawn Camp and Marv Green
Alice In Hulaland - written by Willie Nelson and Buddy Cannon
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - written by Bob Dylan
Family Bible – written by Walter M. Breeland, Paul F. Buskirk, and Claude Gray
It's Only Money - written by Willie Nelson and Buddy Cannon
Swinging Doors - written by Merle Haggard
Where Dreams Come To Die - written by Willie Nelson and Buddy Cannon
Somewhere Between – written by Merle Haggard
Driving The Herd - written by Willie Nelson and Buddy Cannon

The Only Man Wilder Than Me - written by Merle Haggard

Willie Nelson and Family - All Of Me

* This post was suggested by journalist Anna Carolina Campello

Willie Nelson has been ....

Willie Nelson has been a prolific singer and recording artist since the 1970s, but the songwriter who penned hits for Ray Price, Patsy Cline, Billy Walker, and Johnny Cash, among others, hasn't issued an album of predominantly original material since 1996. Band of Brothers ends the drought. Its 14 selections include nine new songs by Nelson (with producer Buddy Cannon) and a handful of fine covers. Opener "Bring It On" is a honky tonk waltz that offers wisdom by someone who has lived through plenty as he looks eternity squarely in the eye.

He is in excellent voice as Mickey Raphael's harmonica moans to underscore his lyric. Nelson delivers his first guitar solo on Trigger (his nylon-stringed instrument). His playing, with its unique phrasing, has always been underrated and here it evokes the blues. His love songs have always been highlights in his catalog. "I Thought I Left You" is in 4/4, with a slow processional pace adorned with slippery steel and piano.

The lost romance portrayed in the waltz "Send Me a Picture" is another clear standout; a sighing pedal steel and Raphael's mid-register wail echo every sung line. Nelson can still write first-rate, irreverent barroom tunes as well. "Wives and Girlfriends" is a swaggering honky tonker, with wiseass lines and a punchy groove.

The title track is a midtempo full-band anthem that celebrates the itinerant musician's life. (It pairs thematically with a righteous cover of Bill Anderson's "The Songwriters.") The choogling Western swing he employs in "Used to Her" updates not only Bob Wills, but Ray Benson. "The Wall" is a killer confessional, though in its rear-view mirror reflections, fueled by a strolling Rhodes piano, Travis-style guitars, and a two-step bassline, it's also a road song. Nelson covers two tunes by Billy Joe Shaver.
read more: https://itunes.apple.com/br/album/band-of-brothers/id868687537

More 2011 Show Date....

02/20/2011 - The Moon - Talahassee, FL

Advantage Sale & Premium Package Sales begins 1/25 at 10am Venue Time on Club Luck Ticketing Site.

03/10/2011 - The Cotillion- Witchita, KS

Pre-Sale & Premium Package Sales begins 1/27 at 10am Venue Time on Club Luck Ticketing Site.

03/11/2011 - Orpheum Theater - Omaha, NE

Pre-Sale & Premium Package Sales begins 1/25 at 10am Venue Time on Club Luck Ticketing Site.

03/13/2011 - Adler Theater - Davenport, IN

Pre-Sale & Premium Package Sales begins 1/25 at 10am Venue Time on Ticketmaster.

03/20/2011 - Morris Performing Arts Center - Southbend, IN

Pre-Sale & Premium Package Sales begins 1/26 at 10am Venue Time on Club Luck Ticketing Site.

Willie Nelson - New 2011 Show Dates Announcing

New tour dates for 2011 and we are working hard to pull the pre-sales together for our Club Luck Members! Many shows confirming as of this email, and we may not be able to send an eblast for every single pre-sale launching over the next week.

Please be sure to check the website for the most up to date information concerning these upcoming pre-sales.   Below is the current list confirmed and a preview of what is coming soon.  
Pre-Sales Confirmed:

1/16/2011 - Pechanga Resort - Temecula, CA

Pre-sale begins 11/17 at 10am Venue Time on

Club Luck Ticketing Site.

2/4/2011 - Verizon Wireless - Houston, TX
Pre-sale begins 11/17 at 10am Venue Time on Ticketmaster.

1/19/2011 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
Pre-sale begins 11/17 at 10am Venue Time on Club Luck Ticketing Site.

2/11/2011 - IP Casino Resort & Spa - Biloxi, MS
Pre-sale begins 11/18 at 10:00 am Venue Time on Ticketmaster.

Email us at support@willienelson.com, for any issues.

Willie Nelson - Asleep at the Wheel....

Album: Willie and the Wheel [Deluxe Edition]
Song: Hesitation Blues
Hipster Rejection Scale: 5 of 10.
Factors: vintage tunes; Letterman loves 'em; polished but authentic.

This is no retro kitsch. For more than 30 years, it was the dream of producer Jerry Wexler to have Willie Nelson cover the masterworks of Western swing, backed by Ray Benson and his gang of modern swingmasters in Asleep at the Wheel. Wexler lived just long enough to see this happen: a collection that defines the best of the genre. Favorites such as "Corrine, Corrina" come across as bouncy and relevant as when Spade Cooley and Bob Wills ruled the airwaves. In the case of Americana hit "Hesitation Blues," there's a sense of joy and casually impeccable musicianship that's rare and refreshing. An instant classic, 30 years in the making. — David Brown.

Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson may be America's greatest balladeer, capable of making any song sound like a standard. For all his genius, Nelson can be kind of lazy, and this disc — a sequel of sorts to his beloved 1978 standards collection, Stardust — he only occasionally sounds like he's trying. Nelson wrings pathos out of "Come Rain or Come Shine" and plays the dirty old man to perfection in "Baby, It's Cold Outside," drawling come-ons to Norah Jones.
But his band pushes the music into airless cocktail-jazz territory, and Nelson often sounds glib and unengaged. Nelson can swing a tune like "Fly Me to the Moon" in his sleep — and here, alas, he does.
JODY ROSEN
http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/29497594/review/29716116/american_classic

Willie Nelson

Willie Nelson was one of the original outlaws of country music, and one of its most influential songwriters. He began playing in the 1960s, writing "Crazy" for Patsy Cline and "Hello Walls" for Faron Young. Nelson's career as a performer flourished in the mid-1970s when he joined up with Waylon Jennings and released the crossover, chart-topping Red Headed Stranger.
It was the hit "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" that perpetuated the then-popular image of the longhaired country boy. Willie Nelson had arrived as a country superstar. His folky, nasal inflections carried his voice through many different genres of music, including Western Swing, traditional pop, jazz, Traditional Country, Cowboy country songs, Honky-Tonk, rock 'n' roll, folk music and of course, the blues.
Nelson's success lasted until the late 1980s, when some trouble with the IRS landed him in a number of stuffed-crust pizza commercials and a cameo role in the film Half Baked smoking his beloved joints. When the day is done, Nelson can easily be considered a bona fide legend.
- Eric Shea
http://www.rhapsody.com/willie-nelson

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis: Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis
Live From Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
Eagle Rock Entertainment
2008

Singer Willie Nelson, country music outlaw, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, jazz music ideologist, may well have seemed strange bedfellows when it came to performing together. This DVD of their concerts at the Lincoln Center perishes that notion.
Nelson has long been a singer without fetters. He interprets songs uniquely, his phrasing drawing every little emotion out of a word. Jazz may not have come his way, but that did not stop him from getting right into the groove with Marsalis and his band. He sings, as always, with a country twang and a low register drawl that almost dips into spoken word.

In one of the interviews that intersect the performances, Marsalis says that all music comes from the blues and demonstrates the rhythmic patterns to show how. His analysis is sound and he moves that into his arrangements, core to making the collaboration successful.
Marsalis's band comprising Dan Nimmer (piano), Carlos Henriquez (bass), Ali Jackson Jr. (drums) and Walter Blanding (tenor and soprano saxophones) is spontaneous in its execution. But the big surprise is Mickey Raphael (harmonica), who has long worked with Nelson. He references his playing with a resolute understanding of the idiom adding an edginess that jumps up from the guts.

Both country and jazz standards went into the programme filmed over two nights at the Allen Room of the Frederick P. Rose Hall. The two streams flow side by side and converge, without losing their impact.
"Georgia On My Mind" is a slow blues with Nimmer lighting the first glow on the piano. Nelson takes it down a country road but his timing fits right into the deliberate blues groove. If there was any doubt about Nelson's ability to get into a jazz frame, it is dispelled by "Basin street Blues." His interpretation and his sense of time and phrase are just delightful. Two blues tunes, two approaches, both successful in their adaptation, show how musical genres can be assimilated successfully.

Marsalis and Nelson have fun singing on "Ain't Nobody's Business" and on the country gospel "That's All." By the time "Down By The Riverside" comes around, the whole group has created a happy, exhilarating atmosphere.
This was an exceptional event. It worked because both Marsalis and Nelson were willing to look beyond the obvious—and they had a band who felt that wholeheartedly as well.

Tracks:
Rainy Day Blues; Georgia On My Mind; Bright Lights Big City; Basin street Blues; Caldonia; Night Life; Stardust; My Bucket's Got A Hole In It; Ain't Nobody's Business; Don't Get Around Much Anymore; Sweet Georgia Brown; That's All; Down By The Riverside.

Personnel:
Willie Nelson: guitar;
Wynton Marsalis: trumpet;
Mickey Raphael: harmonica;
Dan Nimmer: piano;
Carlos Henriquez: bass;
Ali Jackson: drums;
Walter Blanding: saxophone.

Production Notes: 85 minutes. Recorded: January 12 & 13, 2007.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32982