Saturday, February 9, 2008

Willie Nelson


Tonight I bring you a modern rebel, one of the outlaw country western idols.

Willie Nelson has long been know for bucking the system. His life has seen him in trouble for tax evasion and marijuana possession yet he perseveres in his messages of peace and kindness.

An activist in the rescuing of America’s wild horses and anti-war spokesman, he also is one of the founders of the Farm Aid project. Over the years he has brought a series of music festivals featuring a large number of artists to raise money to aid struggling family farmers.

Tonight’s opening song is the one which brought Willie to my attention. It was the guitar playing that did it – simply amazing. I swear Willie will be playing that same guitar even after it has fallen to pieces!

Here then is one fine guitar player and his unique cowboy style solo and joined by his many friends.



Willie Nelson Website ...... Willie Wiki


Links to the videos:

Whiskey River, Always On My Mind, Blue Eyes Crying In the Rain, Funny How Time Slips Away, I Never Cared For You, She’s Gone, Bloody Mary Morning, You Don’t Know Me, Angel Flying Too Close To the Ground, On the Road Again, If I Can Find a Clean Shirt, Pancho and Lefty, She Loves My Automobile, A Song For You, Crazy, Seven Spanish Angels, To All the Girls, Forever and For Always, Nightlife, Ring of Fire, Highway Man, Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer), You Win Again, The Harder They Come, Georgia On My Mind, Sweet Memories, Heartbreak Hotel, Gravedigger, Jimmy’s Road, Blue Skies, Amazing Grace


Willie the Activist:

Wild Horses

On Dennis Kucinich

On Biodiesel

More on Biodiesel

Hemp

On His Commitments

9/11 and the Iraq War

Willie Nelson Peace Project - Video

Willie Nelson Peace Project - Website


Peaceful Solution:

There is a peaceful solution. It’s called a peace revolution.
Now let’s take back America.
There’s a war and we’re in it, but I know we can win it.
So let’s take back America.

It’s a dream, so believe it.
Now get ready to receive it.
And let’s take back America.

And when the war is over and we’ve won it
let’s remember how we done it so we don’t have to do it again.

There is a peaceful solution. It’s called a peace revolution.
Now let’s take back America.
There’s a war and we’re in it, but I know we can win it.
Now let’s take back America.

There was a peace resolution
and a peaceful revolution
and the peaceful solution saved America


Thanks Willie!
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