Willie Nelson

                                                           

When I was younger, I had very little respect for my elders, as I'm sure most of you didn't as well. Alot of great things really fell by the wayside in those times simply because my parents or other older, more experienced people told me something was cool. Being young and full of hate, I refused to even consider giving respect to alot of things that later in life I've totally grown to appreciate. To be more specific, although my parents were serious music lovers and opened the gates of my mind to Kiss, ZZ Top, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, and countless other bands, I always refused to give in to the temptations of country music. I had lots of reasons, most of which make little sense now, but the main one that sticks out in my memory is that I was seriously on a mission. A serious supremely dedicated die-hard mission to find the heaviest, fastest, most hell spawned evil bands that ever burdened the earth. At that time Country music was exactly the opposite of what I needed to find, and in time I did find exactly what I was looking for. By going through the now all-to-familiar channels... Kiss-Ozzy-Metallica-Anthrax-Slayer- next thing you know, Im there. Filling my head with "Sacrificial Suicide" by Deicide or "Desecrator" by Exhorder, or even "History Of Hell" by Burning Witch. The list became almost infinite of blasphemous grind and satanic doom. 

It wasn't until much later, at the end of the 90's, that by living with one of my best friends and fellow Rwake member, Reid, that I started to learn the scale of how much I had really missed while blindly hunting the most evil of metals. Reid has always been one of the most dedicated music lovers I know and through his extensive collection of classic country and through many bottles of whiskey, I realized that alot of the heaviness and some of the evil I was looking for was not just in the savage metal bands I had found, but in alot of the earlier Hank, Waylon, Merle, George, and Willie records.  One of the most intense records I heard back then has to be "Red-Headed Stranger" by Willie Nelson. The movie is brilliant too, but the songs still stand out in my opinion as some of my favorite classic country tunes. The album has become a staple in our home, favored by B and I. 

 While on tour, we stopped at the Charlie Daniels Museum in Nashville and I bought a Willie Nelson doll for Charlie. At the time I was scrutinized because B thought it would be unappreciated by Charlie and at the time it was. But now, years later, it has become a very important part of his "going bye-bye" ritual. I pick him up and we hold Willie together and Wille and I sing "Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground"  to him and he genuinely loves it, making him the newest Willie fan in the family. If only I was as open-minded as he is when I was younger.   

Here is a killer live Willie Nelson album from Roadhouse 

Feb. 1975 - Fort Worth, TX

CD1:
01 Whiskey River
02 Stay All Night
03 Well, Hello There
04 Crazy / Night Life
05 Bloody Mary Morning
06 Pine Top's Boogie Woogie
07 Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother
08 Me And Paul
09 Truck Drivin Man
10 Goin Fishin
11 Okie From Muskogee
12 Shotgun Willie
13 Mr. Record Man
14 Hello Walls
15 One Day At A Time
16 Touch Me
17 Medley
18 Song For You
19 Big Balls In Cowtown
20 Sad Songs And Waltzes
21 After The Fire Is Gone
22 Will The Circle Be Unbroken

CD2:
01 Proud Mary
02 Pick Up The Tempo
03 Good Hearted Woman In Love With A Good Timin Man
04 The Last Letter
05 Half A Man
06 Remember Me
07 Bandera
08 Devil In A Sleeping Bag
09 Whiskey River
10 That's Where My House Lives
11 I Never Cared For You
12 Milk Cow Blues
13 Bubbles In My Beer
14 Stay All Night
15 When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
16 Jambalaya
17 Rollin In My Sweet Baby's Arms
18 Don't Say Love or Nothin
19 Can I Sleep In Your Arms Tonight Lady
20 The Party's Over
21 What'd I Say
22 Mountain Dew
23 Pretty Paper
24 Will The Circle Be Unbroken

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