Song Review: Willie Nelson and Friends - “On the Road Again” and “Happy Birthday” (Live, April 30, 2023)
Just when it seems the world can’t possibly use another version of “On the Road Again,” Willie Nelson releases an “On the Road Again” the world didn’t know it needed.
Recorded April 30, 2023, at the Hollywood Bowl with a bunch of friends - the Avett Brothers, Sheryl Crow, Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson, Lyle Lovett, the Lumineers, Lukas Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Jack Johnson, Rosanne Cash, Beck and Charley Crockett among them - and paired with “Happy Birthday,” this iteration is full of irresistible joy and wobbly harmony.
Despite the number of singers and players, Nelson, who turned 90 that day, remains in charge, singing the words strongly and coaxing yet another behind-the-beat solo from his trusty sidekick, Trigger. Everyone sings along lustily before it careens to a close and a raucous “Happy Birthday” emerges in its wake.
The cut follows Avetts’ take on “Pick up the Tempo” and Dave Matthews’ performance of “Funny How Time Slips Away” from “WIllie Nelson 90: Live at the Hollywood Bowl,” which will be released Dec. 15 in audio and video formats.
Grade card: Willie Nelson and Friends - “One the Road Again” and “Happy Birthday” (Live - 4/30/23) - A+
12/7/23
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Grand Ole Opry@opry We’re gonna be thinking about this performance from @TaylorHicks and @jamey_johnson for quite some time!!
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Today the new John Prine Memorial Park will be dedicated on the Green River in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. So here are Jamey Johnson and Kelsey Waldon covering Prine’s song “Paradise”. I have previously posted Prine’s performance of “Paradise”.
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Paradise
Songwriter: John Prine
When I was a child, my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where paradise lay?
Well, I’m sorry, my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I’ll be halfway to Heaven with paradise waitin’
Just five miles away from wherever I am
And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the green river where paradise lay?
Well, I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away
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Jamey Johnson - In Color (Live at Farm Aid 2021)
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Y’all this John Anderson Tribute album !!
I am in LOVE.
My favorite on it is I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal(But I’m Gonna Be A Diamond Some Day) covered by Jamey Johnson
Attached is the John Anderson version of the song because no matter how much I love Jamey Johnson, NOBODY does it like John Anderson
also, the hate on Luke Combs cover of Seminole Wind is not necessary. It is a TRIBUTE album.
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Jamey Johnson - In Color (Official Video)
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Wednesday, December 13, 2023 1pm ET: New Music Show
New music this week from: Brandy Clarke, Shins, Fantasia, Keb’ Mo’, Warren Haynes, Jamey Johnson, Eric Church, Brenda Lee, Steve Perry, Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Gabriel and more . . .
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Album Review: Tommy Emmanuel - Accomplice Two
A veritable mix tape of some of Tommy Emmanuel’s favorite songs as recorded with some of his best musical friends, Tommy Emmanuel’s Accomplice Two is itself fodder for an Emmanuel fan’s playlist.
Ricocheting across an hour of various artists playing varying styles of music, Accomplice Two is the sonic equivalent of a drive on a hilly country road as the musicians recast their own songs or play Emmanuel originals alongside covers from the likes of Doc Watson, Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, the Rev. Gary Davis and others.
There’s high-test bluegrass both instrumental (“Doc’s Guitar/Black Mountain Rag” with Billy Strings; “Precious Time” with Sierra Hull) and vocal, as when Emmanuel joins forces with Molly Tuttle and Little Feat with Sam Bush for “White Freight Liner Blues” and “Cajun Girl,” respectively.
Jamey Johnson brings weepy, formulaic country on “Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man);” Michael McDonald serves up soul of the blue-eyed variety with “Someone Like You;” and Raul Malo ends the LP on a weird, Lawrence Welk note with “Faraway Places.”
Being a certified guitar player, Emmanuel does best when collaborating with other guitar players including Jorma Kaukonen (“Another Man Done a Full Go Around”), Yasmin Williams (“Mombasa”) and Larry Campbell, who sings “Everybody Loves You” with his wife, Teresa Williams.
Richard Smith, Jerry Douglas, the Del McCoury Band, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and David Grisman also hop in the passenger seat for this up-and-down voyage with Emmanuel. Sound Bites found some legs unpleasant; others worth retracing again and again.
Your mileage may vary.
Grad card: Tommy Emmanuel - Accomplice Two - B-
5/10/23
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if it looks like we were acared to death, like a couple kids just tryin to save each other, uou shoulda seen it in color
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Megan Maroney & Jamey Johnson - cover “Angel From Montgomery” by John Prine
When you was a young girl
I was just an old cowboy
Wasn't much to look at
Just a free ramblin' man
That was a long time
And no matter how I tried
Them years just flow by
Like a broken down dam
Gotta love live music
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From Taylor's Instagram:
What a night… thank you to the @opry for having me and thanks to @jameyjohnsonofficial for letting me sit in!
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God's Problem Child by Willie Nelson (Feat. Tony Joe White, Leon Russell & Jamey Johnson)
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I hope that I won't be that wrong anymore
And maybe I've learned this time
I hope that I find what I'm reaching for
The way that it is in my mind
Someday I'll get over you
I'll live to see it all through
But I'll always miss
Dreaming my dreams with you
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Bruh this song gives me chills
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