Willie Nelson Busted

[drowlins]

I thought the highwaymen were a good group. (Willie, Johnny, Kris, and Waylon).

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Any Leonard Cohen fans out there? Maybe Coastie. He's weird enough.

 

[West R Lee]

Darryl,

That's the song I was talking about. The one about reincarnation. I can't remember the name. Somebody help!

Dredster,

You're right about Prine missing the list. Should have been there I suppose, but you know, all kidding aside, most of the guys were some of the best songwriters of all time. Some of their music is timeless.

Mark,

:lol: Tiny rocked, don't you think? Even if he had a small one.

West

 

[Guildmark]

I don't know, West. Maybe we should ask Miss Vicky. :twisted:

 

[West R Lee]

:lol:

 

[Squawk]

Nowadays, Miss Vicky runs an antiques-type store in South Jersey - want me to ask her next time I'm in the neighborhood?

 

[coastie99]

Darryl.

No Leonard Cohen for me (I did try); - far too dark !

There was a typo in your last post. I'm sure you meant to say "Coastie's wired", not weird !!

 

[West R Lee]

:lol: Well Coaster, with all of those empties around your lawn chair, I can see how you'd be wired! In fact, you're even beginning to get a pinkish color to you.

West

 

[coastie99]

That's what drinking too much Magnolia wine does to ya !!

 

[Jeff]

Miss Vicky runs an antiques-type store in South Jersey - want me to ask her next time I'm in the neighborhood?

No, the kindest thing to do is just let Miss Vickie be. She has demons enough to deal with.

It's best no further mention is made of Tiny Teem, Good Lord Bless His poor departed soul. Soon !!!

 

[guildzilla]

I'll bite on West's challenge.

1 Young, Dylan, Cash (tie because great is the best anyone can be)

4 Nelson

5 Kristofferson

6 Tiny Tim

 

[Cypress Knee]

I saw Willie twice this summer. He was opening for John Fogerty. Fogerty blew him away both times.

And I am not a rocker...John Denverite, James Taylor, Simon&Garfunkle, Jim Croce, etc.

But Willie does have a great and wonderful catalogue of songs that define the era that many of us grew up in...whether he sang them or someone else covered them, they are part of our collective conscious from that time. And even today it is an experience to here him sing them live.

Maybe it was a self-fulfilling prophecy this time - he was covering Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee" this tour:

"Busted flat in Baton Rouge..."

Though it was really closer to Lafayette.

And as one Louisianian told me, "Well, the state trooper probably wanted his autograph, and figured the only to get it was to pull him over so he could write him up."

CK

(PS - Did you know that the Cajuns think that DamYankee Land starts at the northern median of I-10?)

 

[coastie99]

West mentions

Willie songs.

I was going to list some ( like for example, "Crawling Kingsnake"), but since we now have at least one sister here, I resisted the temptation !!

All in the best possible taste ! ( Did you Americans ever get The Kenny Everett Show ?)

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Also in the singer-songwriter vein besides Prine, Dylan, Cohen: Merle Haggard, Tom Waits, Dan Hicks, George Jones, Emmylou Harris, Gordon Lightverse, Junior Brown, Yoni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, Hank Williams, Dwight Yokum, Marty Stuart, John Stewart.

With rock, blues, and jazz, there are too many to mention. But here are all of my favorites in rap:

 

[Mr. P ~]

Two of my favorites are Darrell Scott and Walt Wilkins.
Darrell is best known for a song recorded by the Dixie Chicks (gag a magott) titled "Long Time Gone"

http://www.darrellscott.com/

http://www.myspace.com/darrellscottmusic

Walt Wilkins has had several songs coverd by Pat Green recently such as "Mustang Island" and "Wrapped"



http://www.highway29records.com/1/hwy29/index.asp

http://www.waltwilkins.com/wilkins/home.htm

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Coastie,

Your response to Cohen was my response to the Maori who wanted to make music with her putatara and my koauau.

 

[coastie99]

Speaking of The Kenny Everett Show, those who'd like to see characters like Sid Snot, Gizzard Puke and Cupid Stunt ( and who doesn't ? ), go here..................

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/kennyeverett/

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

This is the end of civilization as we have known it. Thank god. And Coastie. To the extent that we can tell the difference.

 

[Jeff]

[/quote]Sid Snot, Gizzard Puke and Cupid Stunt

Ethnic humor is just plain wrong. I abhor it.

 

[Mr. P ~]

Eschew Obfuscation! :lol: