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Willie Nelson News

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12 hrs ago | New York Post

WILLIE & WYNTON

It's surprising that jazz icon Wynton Marsalis and country legend Willie Nelson have recorded a CD together, and even more surprising that the music is neither jazz nor country.

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Music Review: Willie Nelson - Stardust: 30th Anniversary Legacy Edition

Sit back and enjoy Willie NelsonA's crooning on his swinginA' masterpiece Stardust.

Written by Fantasma el ReyThe story of country music outlaw "Shotgun" Willie Nelson is fairly well known. He wrote a good number of hit songs for other artists while he was a minor vocal player on the country scene but in the early 1970s he came to the forefront along with other outlaws. Willie and friends changed the way that country...

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Sat Jul 05, 2008

KCEN

Country music legend Willie Nelson comes to Central Texas

Updated: Jul 3, 2008 10:52pm The Red Headed Stranger kicked off July 4th celebrations and a preview of Willie Nelson's new concert venue Thursday night in Central Texas.

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Related Topix: Texas, Country, Federal Detention Center, Houston, Federal Prisons, Western, Red Headed Stranger, Carl's Corner, TX

Fri Jul 04, 2008

The Austin American-Statesman

Willie's Place at Carl's Corner hosts pre-opening party

The "Bio Willie" diesel fueling stations won't be operational until at least September, but the music was pumping Thursday as Willie Nelson and friends christened the rebuilt and expanded Willie's Place at ...

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Thu Jul 03, 2008

KUOW-FM Seattle

Amazing Grace: The Story of Willie Nelson

He was abandoned by his parents as a toddler. As a young struggling songwriter, he crisscrossed the country playing honky tonks and selling encyclopedias doortodoor just to feed his family.

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Star-telegram.com

CD reviews: Los Lonely Boys, Willie Nelson, Vanessa Hudgens, Sloan

San Angelo trio Los Lonely Boys burst out of the Lone Star State on the back of inescapable 2004 single Heaven , which brought the Garza brothers acclaim, cash and greater visibility.

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Extreme Mortman

Willie Or Won't He Attend?

Fascinating to see Ron Paul's campaign soliciting Willie Nelson's help for events surrounding the Republican convention: Paul is planning a one-day shadow convention that could be the wildest party of the ...

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Related Topix: Ron Paul, US Politics, US News, Country

PeoriaTimes-Observer

Review: 'Two Men with the Blues,' by Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis

Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis? On the same record? Well, why not? In a time when Ludacris and Motley Crue's Tommy Lee are getting together to save the environment, an album culled from two live shows ...

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Related Topix: Wynton Marsalis, Jazz, Country, Entertainment

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Waco Tribune-Herald

Carl's Corner to open with free music, including Nelson

Texas music legend Willie Nelson officially opens his Willie's Place Theater and Whiskey River Saloon in Carl's Corner next week in true Willie form: big names, free admission, a fluid musical schedule and a ...

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Related Topix: Country, Johnny Bush, Electronics, Carl's Corner, TX, Texas

Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

Lubbockites share favorite Willie songs

From bandanas to braids, Willie Nelson has practically done it all during more than six decades as a singer and songwriter.

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Related Topix: Lubbock Metro, Lubbock, TX, Country, Riders in the Sky, Wilson, TX

Tue Jul 01, 2008

Star-telegram.com

Willie's 'legacy,' Vanessa's vapid vocals, pop...

Willie Nelson Stardust: Legacy Edition *****It should've been the record that killed his career , but instead, 1978's standards-oriented Stardust reinvented Nelson as a timeless icon, a singer removed from ...

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CMT.com

Around the Web: Willie, Farm Aid Deliver Check to Iowa

Willie Nelson's paying up . He and his Farm Aid buddies brought money to Iowa for immediate relief to the flood-damaged farms along the Mississippi River.

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Mon Jun 30, 2008

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Music Review: Willie Nelson - Stardust

If Willie was already a legend, Stardust forever cemented his status as an icon.

Over the short course of the history of popular music (at least as we define it today in the mostly American sense), there are but a handful of artists who stand out as truly iconic figures. These are those rare artists whose appeal transcends boundaries both artistic and generational. Gershwin, Berlin, Sinatra, and Bennett certainly all fall into...

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Chicago Tribune

Life of musical icon Willie Nelson is an incomplete portrait

Not William. Just Willie. That's about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it's a herculean task to put the singer/songwriter into context.

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Related Topix: Abbott, TX, Country, Western, Red Headed Stranger

Sat Jun 28, 2008

The Gazette

Nelson delivers in trademark style

Several hours before his Saturday night concert at the Meskwaki Casino outdoor arena, Willie Nelson and his Farm Aid posse presented an initial $10,000 check to the Iowa Farm Grassroots Coalition for disaster ...

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Thu Jun 26, 2008

TheCelebrityCafe

Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men with the Blues

Alphabetical Listing Home : CD reviews : Blues : Willie Nelson : Wynton Marsalis Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men with the Blues - This is a day I could not have foreseen: Willie Nelson participating in ...

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Tue Jun 24, 2008

WKHX-FM Atlanta

Willie Nelson Brings Farm Aid Relief to Iowa

Willie Nelson has contributed much more to the world than just his legendary music.

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Related Topix: Country, Agriculture, Science

WisInfo

Sold-out show proves there's only one Willie

If Monday night was Willie Nelson at 75, save us a seat for 80. With a stack of songs as deeply engrained in our collective consciousness as the wrinkles on his weathered face, Nelson is a legend, an American ...

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The Courier-Journal

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BuzzMe: Snoop hoopla Johnny Cash is 'a real American gangster,' says Snoop Dogg.

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Sun Jun 22, 2008

Lansing State Journal

Too many facts weigh down new Willie Nelson biography

Willie Nelson's first name really is Willie. Not William. Just Willie. That's about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it's a Herculean task to put the singer-songwriter ...

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