Willie Nelson

April’s Got All-star Jams, Willie Nelson, ‘the Son’ And

... Strahovski, a very creepy Joseph Fiennes, Samira Wiley and more. Three episodes launch the show; the rest arrive weekly on Wednesdays. One suspects that this might be the future of streaming: a balance between binging and weekly waits, which both gives the show time to build an audience and prevents folks from watching all of it at once and the show having less overall impact as a result. (April 26). 19. Feist, “Pleasure” (Interscope). She’s back! It’s her first album since 2011 and her fifth overall. Expect a whole mess of emotional, intense song craft. Who doesn’t like Leslie Feist? (April 28). 20. Willie Nelson, “God’s Problem Child” (Legacy Recordings). Another seven months, another Willie Nelson album (the last one came out in September). Many songs were written by Nelson and producer Buddy Cannon. Also looks for songs by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe White, vocals from the late Leon Russell, a song about the 2016 election called “Delete and Fast-Forward” and a tribute to Merle Haggard called “He ...

This Week On Sunday Morning April 2

... tundra, holds more than half a billion seeds. Tim E White, Getty Images/Cultura Exclusive. There are 1,700 seed banks worldwide of varied size and state of repair. But this one in Norway is known as the “Doomsday Vault” - a back-up for the whole system, designed to last for thousands of years, protecting humanity should natural disaster or war imperil mankind’s food supply. So when a typhoon tore through a seed bank in the Philippines, or when war destroyed seed banks in Iraq and Syria, all was not lost. Seth Doane reports from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. For more info. “Sunday Morning” remembers Gilbert Baker, creator of the rainbow banner of the gay rights movement, and New Yorker cartoonist Jack Ziegler. Actor Alec Baldwin with correspondent Rita Braver. CBS News. SUNDAY PROFILE: Actor and memoirist Alec Baldwin is having the time of his life | Watch Video. The 59-year-old Oscar-nominated actor has won ...

Miranda Lambert Channels Country Music Legend Willie Nelson

... light denim jacket over a black shirt with crisscross straps over her decolletage. Dolled up: Crimson lip gloss, and subtle eye make-up ensured the songstress was ready for her turn on the red carpet. Perhaps most notably, she styled her blonde tresses into dual braids, which she controlled with a floral-print headband. Of course country superstar and marijuana advocate Willie Nelson, 83, pioneered the unique look. The similarities became even more noticeable when she took the stage to begin her set, complete with just a simple acoustic guitar. Coincidence? Perhaps most notably, she styled her blonde tresses into dual braids, which she controlled with a floral-print headband, not unlike legend Willie Nelson, 84 (right). All smiles! Aside from the rehearsal, she also had a short interview on the red carpet with XM Radio's Storme Warren, who hosted for The Highway Channel broadcast from the event. Aside from the rehearsal, she had a short interview on the red carpet with XM Radio's Storme Warren, who hosted for The Highway Channel broadcast from the event. And come evening, the starlet did some more entertaining, ...

Willie Nelson Treats Rodeo Crowd To Something Special

... it’s hard to imagine anyone of his age and reputation still out there doing what he does. In recent years especially, Nelson has not been shy about canceling a show if he wasn’t feeling up to it. But when he does show up, fans still expect him to be “Willie,” and here it gives me great pleasure to report that he’s still not dead again today. Not that Saturday set was flawless, nor should it have been. Live, Nelson has long sailed through his repertoire in a meter of his own, lyrics most of all. And the way he attacked his guitar during opener “Whiskey River” and parts of “Still Is Still Moving to Me” resembled pulling the ignition cord of a lawn mower or chainsaw — it may take a few yanks to really catch, but once it does it can cover a lot of ground. It’s exactly these sort of ...

Watch Willie Nelson's Latest Video, 'it Gets Easier,' From 'god's Problem Child' Album

... gently blowing in the wind and the sun on the horizon. Nelson channels a sense of freedom that comes with advancing years and the inevitability of certain regrets as he continues, “I don’t have to do/ One damn thing I don’t want to do/ Except for missing you/ And that won’t go away.”. The outdoor scenes are interwoven with footage of Nelson seated in a recording studio before a microphone, gently singing the song using his signature elastic phrasing, no unnecessary frills in his wispy-around-the-edges vocal. “We weren’t planning on making a concept record or anything,” Cannon told music journalist Mikal Gilmore in an essay about the album that’s expected to be posted on Nelson’s website , “but it kind of turned out like that.”. Along with “It Gets Easier,” Nelson and Cannon wrote eight other songs for the collection, the most Nelson has composed for an album in years. The title track was written by Jamey Johnson and Tony Joe ...

Willie Nelson Declares He's 'still Not Dead

... AP). 23078 CONNECT TWEET 22 LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. The rumors of Willie Nelson's imminent demise have been exaggerated, his publicist says, disputing reports the country music icon is on death's door. "He's perfectly fine," Elaine Schock told the Associated Press on Wednesday, attempting to finally shut down rumors sparked by a March 13 Radar Online story that described the 83-year-old as "deathly ill" and said his lungs weren't strong enough to perform. A "bad cold"  forced Nelson to cancel several shows in January and February, but he was back onstage by Feb. 16, when he played at a San Antonio rodeo. And last week he performed at a Houston stadiumfor 75,000 fans, where he appeared to be in good health and had no problems singing. Nelson's death has been erroneously reported so many times that he addresses the problem on his new album, God's Problem Child, due in April. A sample lyric from Still Not Dead: "The Internet said I had passed away, ...

Tragic Willie Nelson Fighting To Breathe

... glitzy Venetian Resort, says a source. The 83-year-old pothead has been ravaged by emphysema and pneumonia in recent years, now sources say he’s weak as a baby. “Willie’s been so frail and gaunt… a pale shadow of the man he used to be,” a source tells Radar. “He’s never fully recovered from the last time when he was deathly ill, more than a year ago. It’s now come back to hit him like a ton of bricks. PHOTOS: Flirting With Disaster! Selena’s Fling With The Weeknd Leaves Closest Friends ‘Worried’. “If he can’t get a deep breath in and his voice is a croak — there’s no way he can sing.”. The music icon’s reps ­apologized for his no-shows on his Facebook page, ­sending regrets for axing performances “due to recent illness” and announcing the shows “will not be rescheduled.”. Willie also cancelled gigs in late 2015 to undergo a stem cell treatment, saying: “It’s supposed to help the lungs. Over the years I’ve smoked a lot of cigarettes, and I’ve had emphysema and pneumonia four or five times, so my lungs were really screwed up.”. PHOTOS: ...

Willie Nelson Is, As The Song Goes, Still Not Dead

... When he’s not traveling on his bus to one of the more than 100 shows he stills does every year, Nelson splits his time between a home in Maui (where he hangs with friends like Woody Harrelson), and his ranch outside Austin, complete with an Old West town he named Luck, Texas. Correspondent Bob Schieffer and Willie Nelson in Luck, Texas. CBS News. When Schieffer dropped by, 3,000 fans filled the town for the Luck Reunion, the brainchild of Willie’s great niece, Bobbie’s granddaughter, Ellee. “I had grown up on this property,” Ellee Fletcher told Schieffer. “Basically this is my backyard.”. She said the Luck Reunion had started as a one-day event: “Celebrating singers and songwriters who were kind of forging their path in the same kind of vein as Willie is. Just, you know, doing their own thing without compromise.”. “A lot of ...