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Concert films, Film, Willie Nelson

Video of the day: Willie Nelson The Big Six-0 concert 1993


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In 1993, Willie Nelson joined with his friends for a fantastic birthday concert with Paul Simon, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Kris Kristofferson, Marty Stuart, B.B. King, Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris, Edie Brickell and Neil Young.

we get  Willie Nelson and a dazzling array of stars for a superb birthday concert, celebrating the life and music of one America’s most popular singer/songwriters. Filled with power-packed performances, unforgettable songs and candid interviews with Willie and many of the superstars he’s influenced! It was out on VHS and Laserdisc but has not been released on DVD (yet…)

The concert film also has statements and messages from his friends, like Lesley Ann Warren, Sydney Pollack, Dennis Hopper and Lou Diamond Phillips and Bill Clinton, all talking about the man and artist. The songs are wonderful in this big party for Willie Nelson.

Set-list:

  1. Graceland – Willie Nelson and Paul Simon
  2. Whiskey River — Willie Nelson
  3. Getting Over You — Willie Nelson and Bonnie Raitt
  4. Seven Spanish Angels — Ray Charles and Willie Nelson
  5. Pancho and Lefty – Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan
  6. Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys — Willie Nelson and Waylon Jenning
  7. On The Road Again — Willie Nelson
  8. Song for You — Ray Charles
  9. Old OUtlaws Like Us — Travis Tritt
  10. How Do You Feel About Fooling Around? — Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson
  11. Way More’s Blues — Marty Stuart & Waylon Jennings
  12. Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line — Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Travis Tritt, Marty Stuart
  13. Night Life — Bonnie Raitt and B.B. King
  14. Funny How Time Slips Away — Lyle Lovett
  15. Crazy — EmmyLou Harris
  16. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain — Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Edie Brickell
  17. Valentine — Willie Nelson
  18. Are There Any More Real Cowboys? — Willie Nelson and Neil Young
  19. Hard Times, Come Again No More — Bob Dylan
  20. American Tune — Willie Nelson and Paul Simon
  21. Always On My Mind — Willie Nelson
  22. Whiskey River — Willie Nelson and Family, Don Was and the Healing Hands of Time Band

– Hallgeir

List, Sound

Best albums of 2012: number 21 to 25

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21. Mumford & Sons – Babel

I think it’s a great story, the story of Babel. I think anyone can direct it as an analogy for a lot of different situations. ….. It’s such a human thing. As humans, we’re such a discontented species. We’re always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon and then it’s just discontent. You want to go to Mars.
~Ted Dwane (rollingstone.com interv. – Aug. 2012)

The music is: uplifting, lively, intense, rootsy, Appalachian/bluegrass’ish… and driving rock @ heart (wild @ heart 😉

Reminds me of: The Avett Brothers, The Pogues & Bon Iver on steroids & a helluva string backing….

-Egil

Highlights:

  • Egil:  I Will Wait, Hopeless Wanderer & Babel
  • Hallgeir: Babel, Lover of the light and Broken Crown

 

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22. Darrell Scott – Long Ride Home

“…even Jesus couldn’t help me today”

Darrell Scott is one of the best songwriters i know of. I am relatively new to his work, and discovered him when he was nominated for a Grammy for, Hank Williams’ Ghost in 2007. He has since toured with Buddy Miller and Robert Plant, those men do not pick people (for the Band of Joy)  that doesn’t know what they’re doing, trust me Darrell Scott is the real deal.

Long Ride Home is his seventh album. This is great music and he some very special guests on this album, Rodney Crowell, Guy Clark, Patty Griffin and many more. These are his peers, he fits nicely in this company and that says something. The songs are incredibly strong and constantly interesting. The hour flies by.

This is storytelling at it’s richest and best.

Heartache, lost love and temptation.

– Hallgeir

Highlights:

  • Egil: It Must Be Sunday, Out In The Parking Lot & The Country Boy
  • Hallgeir: Someday, Candle for a Cowboy and Out in the parking lot (with Guy Clark)

 

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23. Marty Stuart -Nashville, volume 1: Tear the Woodpile down

Marty Stuart is back with this fabulous, but short, 30 minute album of traditional styled country. He runs through a fine bunch of songs with his touring band and some great guests, Hank3, Kenny Lovelace, Buck Trent and more. The Topics are hard core country themes: truck driving, love and loneliness. This is pure country but not slick Nashville, I think it is better to call it country & western music, and it is clearly a project that is close to Marty Stuart’s heart.

Traditional but fresh and with tremendeous technical skill

– Hallgeir

Highlights:

  • Egil: The Lonely Kind, Tear the Woodpile Down, Sundown in Nashville
  • Hallgeir: A Matter of Time, Holding on to nothing and Truck Driver’s Blues

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24. Bobby Womack – The Bravest Man  in the Universe

Bobby Womack has given us this aptly titled album this year, it is one of his best albums, and that says a lot! He has certainly been dealt a rough hand by life and he has come out triumphantly, he is a survivor, a soul survivor.

Damon Albarn plays a big role in Womack’s resurrection, first by including him on two Gorillaz albums and now by producing (along with Richard Russel) this record. He seems to have pushed Womack in the right direction and fed his creativity more than anybody has for very many years.

This is classic Bobby Womack but with a spacious, trip-hoppy sound.

– Hallgeir

Highlights:

  • Egil: Please Forgive My Heart, Dayglo Reflection, Love Is Gonna Lift You Up
  • Hallgeir: Please forgive my heart, The Bravest Man in The Universe and Whatever happened to the times

 

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25. Sharon Van Etten – Tramp

“I’m traveling, I’m female, I’m strong.”
~Sharon Van Etten (on why – Tramp)

The music is: Naked, raw, truthful, mesmerizing, demanding & often beautiful.

Reminds me of: early PJ Harvey, Liz Phair & even Emmylou Harris.

-Egil

Highlights:

  • Egil:  Give Out, All I Can & Magic Chords
  • Hallgeir: In Line, All I Can and Serpents

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