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Stars & Guitars - Live -- CD

Willie Nelson & Friends

2002 Lost Highway Records

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An A-list of musically diverse acolytes surrounds the venerable country icon on this concert recording, which pays richer dividends than its studio-album predecessor, The Great Divide. Artists from Sheryl Crow to Norah Jones and Vince Gill to Keith Richards help celebrate one of the richest legacies in American music. Though some hit-and-miss is inevitable, the teaming with Richards, Ryan Adams, and Hank Williams III on "Dead Flowers" romps all over the Rolling Stones' original, while the duet with mentor Ray Price, who enjoyed an early hit with Nelson's "Night Life," shows a sense of history too often missing from such demographic-driven projects. Other highlights include the sweet-voiced balladry of Jones on "Lonestar" and a luminous rendition of "Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain" by Gill. As for the misfires: Adams and Nelson sound like they're in different keys on Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come"; Toby Keith isn't even a poor man's Waylon Jennings on "Good Hearted Woman"; and the very idea of Matchbox Twenty singing "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" is ludicrous. Even when the material and guest vocalists don't mesh, Nelson's guitar punctuation remains an understated (and underrated) delight. --Don McLeese

1. "Whiskey River" (Johnny Bush, Paul Stroud) - 2:39
* duet with Sheryl Crow
2. "Good Hearted Woman" (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson) - 4:09
* duet with Toby Keith
3. "Maria (Shut Up and Kiss Me)" (Rob Thomas) - 4:01
* duet with Rob Thomas
4. "Mendocino County Line" (Matt Serletic, Bernie Taupin) - 4:30
* duet with Lee Ann Womack
5. "Always on My Mind" (Johnny Christopher, Mark James, Wayne Carson Thompson) - 3:53
* duet with Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora
6. "Night Life" (Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, Nelson) - 4:25
* duet with Ray Price
7. "Dead Flowers" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 4:55
* duet with Ryan Adams and Hank Williams III
8. "Lonestar" (Lee Alexander) - 3:33
* duet with Norah Jones
9. "Stardust" (Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish) - 4:17
* duet with Aaron Neville
10. "Don't Fade Away" (Kevin Kadish, Serletic) - 4:27
* duet with Brian McKnight
11. "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" (Nelson) - 4:26
* duet with Patty Griffin
12. "For What It's Worth" (Steve Stills) - 4:25
* duet with Sheryl Crow
13. "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce) - 4:26
* duet with Matchbox Twenty
14. "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose) - 3:09
* duet with Vince Gill
15. "Till I Gain Control Again" (Rodney Crowell) - 5:48
* duet with Emmylou Harris
16. "The Harder They Come" (Jimmy Cliff) - 4:26
* duet with Ryan Adams
17. "On the Road Again" (Nelson) - 2:27
18. "Move It On Over" (Hank Williams) - 4:58
 
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar on Takoma Records

as it's Sunday, there is also a new A Prairie Home Companion to listen to, and I will as I do every week. there is always some great home-grown music on the program.
 
Greg Brown -"The Live One"
Maybe closer to folk than Americana. Has this great line:
"Me, I'm a hick, and I dance like one, I just kind of jump around and grin."
 
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar on Takoma Records

as it's Sunday, there is also a new A Prairie Home Companion to listen to, and I will as I do every week. there is always some great home-grown music on the program.

I miss Takoma Records. They were Americana before American was cool.
 
Leo Kottke - 6 and 12 String Guitar on Takoma Records

as it's Sunday, there is also a new A Prairie Home Companion to listen to, and I will as I do every week. there is always some great home-grown music on the program.

Takoma was such a great label. They were Americana before Americana was cool.
 
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