Bluegrass Willie Nelson

• 1 No Love Around 03:13
• 2 Somebody Pick Up My Pieces 05:12
• 3 A Good Hearted Woman 04:58
• 4 Sad Songs and Waltzes 03:38
• 5 Home Motel 04:26
• 6 You Left Me A Long, Long Time Ago 04:18
• 7 Yesterday's Wine 03:27
• 8 Bloody Mary Morning 03:04
• 9 Slow Down Old World 02:14
• 10 Still Is Still Moving To Me 04:00
• 11 On the Road Again 02:40
• 12 Man With the Blues 02:22
• Total Runtime 43:32

Info for Bluegrass

Bluegrass ist ein brandneues Studioalbum, das ein Dutzend klassische Willie Nelson-Kompositionen – darunter „On the Road Again“, „Yesterday’s Wine“, „Still is Still Moving to Me“, „Good Hearted Woman“ und mehr – frisch interpretiert einfängt von Willie und einem Ensemble von Spitzenspielern. In seiner sieben Jahrzehnte währenden Karriere, in der er Genres von einem Ende des musikalischen Spektrums bis zum anderen erkundet hat, ist dies sein erstes vollständiges Album, das sich diesem Genre widmet. Willie und sein langjähriger Produzent Buddy Cannon wählten persönliche und von Fans bevorzugte Kompositionen aus seiner gesamten Karriere aus, um sie für diese Hommage an die Streichorchestermusik der alten Appalachen, die Willies Sensibilität für das Songwriting und die Richtung der amerikanischen Country-Musik im Allgemeinen tiefgreifend beeinflusste, erneut aufzuführen. Willie nutzte seinen eigenen Katalog als Ausgangsmaterial und wählte Lieder aus, die starke Melodien, einprägsame Handlungsstränge und ein enges Ensemble-Zusammenspiel vereinen, wie man sie in traditionellen Bluegrass-Interpretationen der Wurzeln amerikanischer Volkslieder findet. Mit Bluegrass entdeckt Willie neue Wahrheiten in seinen eigenen Songs.

Willie Nelson, Lead-Gesang
Barry Bales, Kontrabass
Ron Block, Banjo
Aubrey Haynie, Geige
Rob Ickes, Dobro
Josh Martin, Akustikgitarre
Mickey Raphael, Mundharmonika
Seth Taylor, Mandoline
Bobby Terry, Akustikgitarre, Darmsaitengitarre
Dan Tyminski, Mandoline
Wyatt Beard, Hintergrundgesang
Buddy Cannon, Hintergrundgesang
Melonie Cannon, Hintergrundgesang

Willie Nelson
With a six-decade career and a catalog of more than 200 albums to his credit, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelsonhas earned a permanent position in pop music’s pantheon with songs combining the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. He brought pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s with unforgettable songs like “Crazy” (Patsy Cline), “Hello Walls” (Faron Young), “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker), “Night Life” (Ray Price) and others and, by the mid-1970s, had become a superstar in his own right as a prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger, Willie’s first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist to the front ranks of popularity, making his a name familiar in country and city households across America and around-the-world.

A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert in 1985 to raise money for American family farmers. He continues to lobby against horse slaughter and produces his own blend of biodiesel fuel. An old-school road-dog troubadour with new school wheels, Willie plays concerts year-round, tirelessly touring on Honeysuckle Rose III (he rode his first two buses into the ground), taking his music and fans to places that are always worth the ride.

The very first musician to perform on the premiere episode of Austin City Limits in 1974, Willie Nelson was inducted into the inaugural class of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame by fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey on Saturday, April 26, 2014. “There would be no Austin City Limits without Willie Nelson,” McConaughey told the audience assembled at the University of Texas at Austin, the original home of what is now America’s longest-running televised music program.

Willie Nelson, who turned 81 on April 29/April 30, is an American original, a sublime singer, master tunesmith and outlaw country’s most enduring archetype.

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