Subject: Willie Nelson

• Drenched In Blog: We Wanna Get High, So High

  August 10, 2007

• The Houston 100: From Guy Clark to Don Williams

  September 26, 2007

• Hey, Look Over There

  September 26, 2007

• Bartender, Pour the Wine: Ten Great Country Breakup Songs

  February 14, 2008

• Joe Nick Patoski's Willie Nelson biography signings

  May 12, 2008

• Re-Scattering Willie Nelson's Stardust, 30 Years Later

  July 5, 2008

• Houston Press Music Awards 2000

  Your guide to the Music Awards Showcase

  July 13, 2000

• More Willie Nelson Tickets Released

  October 31, 2008

• Aftermath: Cheech & Chong at Verizon Wireless Theater; Willie Nelson at House of Blues

  November 3, 2008

• An Algae Farm Near The Ship Channel? Why The Hell Not?

  You know what the Ship Channel area needs?Besides a whole lot less pollution, we mean.It needs a good farm. An algae farm, in fact. That's the thinking of a Nevada company, which has announced plans to build a 20-acre algae farm near the Channel if it can get some financing from the federal governement.

  November 25, 2008

• November 2008 in Photos

  Over the past few weeks, we've seen the National, Usher, Baby Bash, Metallica, Madonna and Willie Nelson, not to mention voting, posing, drawing, partying, bikinis and face paint. And now you can see it all in one place. Yep, it's that time of the month.   -- Keith Plocek

  November 26, 2008

• What to Get a Texas Beer Lover for Christmas?

  The Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner celebrates its 100th birthday next year and while we'll have to wait until January for the anniversary beer to be released, a new book on the history of the brewery has already hit the bookstores--just in time for Christmas. The hefty coffee table book (beer table book?) is packed with archival photos, old Shiner beer advertising, and tales of Kosmos Spoetzl.

  December 2, 2008

• Aftermath Extra: The Best Concerts of the Year, Part 8

  Cheech & Chong/Willie Nelson, Verizon Wireless Theater/House of Blues, October 31: "This morning Aftermath thought his notes had vanished entirely before realizing he had simply mistook the back cover of his notebook for the front. Halloween 2008 was high times indeed." Randy Weeks, Discovery Green, November 6: "New songs like 'Fine Way To Treat Me,' 'Hard To Believe' [and] 'Just A Little Bit of Sleep" all melded perfectly with Weeks' previous material and a funky cover of 'Down Home Gir

  January 2, 2009

• Full Nelson

  June 29, 1995

• Rotation

  January 11, 1996

• Devilish Boys

  February 15, 1996

• Rotation

  July 18, 1996

• Press Picks

  October 31, 1996

• Chart Check: Texans on Amazon.com

  [Rocks Off scrolled through the various Top Sellers lists on Amazon.com this afternoon to see which albums by Texas artists are moving, and where.] Top Sellers Overall 2. Steve Martin, The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo 7. Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel, Willie and the Wheel 14. Buddy Holly, Memorial Collection Top 40 2. Beyonce, I Am... Sasha Fierce 8. Jamie Foxx, Intuition MP3 Downloads 5. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" 30. Beyonce, "If I Were a Boy"

  February 4, 2009

• Aftermath: Willie Nelson, Wynton Marsalis and Norah Jones at Jazz at Lincoln Center

  Photos by Frank Stewart/ Jazz at Lincoln Center When Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis first shared the stage at New York's Allen Room for Jazz at Lincoln Center almost exactly two years ago, the concert was simply billed as "Willie Nelson Sings the Blues." There was no hint that music history was about to be made, but the pairing resulted in one of the best releases of 2008, the CD/DVD Two Men with the Blues. For their second concert together Tuesday night, Marsalis and Nelson chose not

  February 11, 2009

• Album of the Day: Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel's Willie and the Wheel

  Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel Willie and the Wheel www.willieandthewheel.com The late Jerry Wexler, who passed away last August at age 91, was best known as an advocate and producer for top R&B and soul artists like Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Wilson Pickett. But Wexler was also a huge fan of country music, dating back to the days the kid who spent his teenage nights in Harlem jazz clubs discovered Western Swing in Kansas City while in college. Credited as executive produ

  February 13, 2009

• Burying the Brakeman

  September 11, 1997

• Rotation

  September 10, 1998

• RIP Bob Dylan?

  At first, when Rocks Off saw this flyer (right) come over ye olde MySpace, we didn't really give it much thought. It looked like a decent night of tunes from a bunch of dead rockers - maybe some "Lithium", a little "Purple Haze." After all, the night is dedicated to rockers who have gone on to the big festival in the sky, right? But when did Bob Dylan die? You know, Jakob Dylan's dad. The old dude from those "Victoria's Secret ads" a few years back, whose album due in April has a song about

  March 5, 2009

• Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson, Naked and Clothed

  www.mickeyraphael.comFor a disarmingly large number of his worldwide fans, Willie Nelson burst onto the country music scene in the mid-'70s, fully hirsute, sporting an earring and proclaiming the joys of being on the road again. Real aficionados know that his "overnight success" came only after decades of struggling as a songwriter (hitting big with "Crazy" and "Night Life") and climbing even greater obstacles as a performer. For much of the 1960s, Nelson recorded for RCA at a time when t

  March 18, 2009

• Phosphorescent

  March 19, 2009

• Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel: Willie and the Wheel

  February 19, 2009

• Willie Nelson

  October 30, 2008

• Larry McMurtry and Willie Nelson in Houston

  May 1, 2008

• Willie Nelson: One Hell of a Ride

  May 1, 2008

• Willie Nelson: A Moment of Forever

  March 20, 2008

• Elana James

  Fiddle with this

  December 6, 2007

• The Scene Is Dead. Long Live the Scene!

  Ideas toward a Houston-style musical Day of the Dead

  October 25, 2007

• Houston's Very Best Songs Ever

  September 27, 2007

• Go for Brogue

  January 19, 2006

• Wheel Good Time

  March 30, 2006

• For the Children

  June 29, 2006

• The Full Nelson

  A Rhino rerelease celebrates Willie's new concept for country

  July 6, 2006

• Scenes from a Picnic

  Willie, Dylan, Kinky and the Ghost of Bob Willis descends on Fort Worth. Wack is there too.

  July 21, 2005

• Dwight Yoakam

  Thursday, August 21

  August 21, 2003

• Los Lonely Boys

  August 7, 2003

• Willie Nelson

  Crazy: The Demo Sessions (Sugar Hill Records)

  February 27, 2003

• Playbill

  Willie Nelson's Family Picnic

  August 9, 2001

• Billy Joe's Blues

  Billy Joe Shaver has known great blessings and great curses

  July 26, 2001

• It's a Family Affair

  Willie Nelson brings along his pals for his annual musical picnic

  July 29, 1999

• Lonesome Onry and Mean: R.I.P. Poodie Locke

  www.stillisstillmoving.comJohn Belushi (left) and Poodie Locke, date unknownWord has reached Lonesome, Onry and Mean that longtime Willie Nelson stage manager Poodie Locke passed away shortly after 3 p.m. this afternoon. The cause of death is said to be a "massive heart attack." Reports of Locke's passing have just gone up on Austin360.com, and Nelson has informed fans via his Web site and Twitter. LOM's source, who asked not to be named, said she learned via a phone call from a member of Locke

  May 6, 2009

• Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp

  July 30, 2009

• Big Willie Style: The Red Headed Stranger at the Movies

  Honeysuckle Rose This weekend at the Woodlands comes one of the most prolific trios of artists to ever appear on the same bill. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp converge on the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion for what looks to be one of those landmark shows people brag about catching, kind of like the Dylan/Paul Simon gig out there about a decade ago. Nelson is so ingrained into the state psyche that if we ever decided to make our own musical Mount Rushmore in West Texas, he would b

  July 29, 2009

• Aftermath: Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/cosmopolitician/​Sunday night's Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Bob Dylan gig out at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion was an exhibition for an artist in his comfortable twilight, another on the cusp of a new revolution and the last one stoically fighting the violent currents of the wake he created nearly six decades before. Lately we have been studying the longevity and aging of popular rockers, mainly because so many seem to be darkening Houston's doors as of la

  August 3, 2009

• Eyeballin': The Willie Nelson Special featuring Ray Charles

  ​This 1985 TV special was filmed at the Austin Opry House, and finds the two music icons sharing the stage - and a lot of laughs - for part of the proceedings in a 14-song set. Not surprisingly, it's the tunes with both of them side-by-side at the piano, that shine. An emotional "Angel Eyes," epic "Seven Spanish Angels" and rollicking "Mountain Dew" stand out, the ebullient Charles stealing the show and a grinning Nelson all too happy to let him do it. The two also trade verses on "Georgia On

  October 27, 2009