Django and Jimmie Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard

• 1 Django and Jimmie 02:53
• 2 It's All Going to Pot 02:57
• 3 Unfair Weather Friend 04:14
• 4 Missing Ol' Johnny Cash 03:27
• 5 Live This Long 03:35
• 6 Alice In Hulaland 03:02
• 7 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright 04:11
• 8 Family Bible 03:37
• 9 It's Only Money 03:56
• 10 Swinging Doors 02:51
• 11 Where Dreams Come to Die 03:19
• 12 Somewhere Between 03:24
• 13 Driving the Herd 02:50
• 14 The Only Man Wilder Than Me 02:34
• Total Runtime 46:50

Info for Django and Jimmie

Zwei der größten Country-Stars der letzten 50 Jahre, Willie Nelson und Merle Haggard, haben erneut ein gemeinsames Studioalbum aufgenommen. Das Album entstand innerhalb nur weniger Tage im vergangenen November im Studio und präsentiert sich als echte Labor of Love mit 14 großartigen Titeln: Soloaufnahmen der beiden Country-Legenden ebenso wie gemeinsame Duette, Neuaufnahmen von eigenen Klassikern, eine herausragende Cover-Version des Dylan-Klassikers „Don›t Think Twice, It‹s Alright“ sowie neue Originalaufnahmen wie das titelgebende „Django and Jimmie“ oder die von Merle Haggard geschriebene Hommage an Johnny Cash „Missing Ol' Johnny Cash“.

Mit dem Albumtitel »Django And Jimmie« verneigen sich die beiden Country-Legenden vor ihren großen Vorbildern – dem Jazz-Gitarristen Django Reinhardt, der ganz wesentlich Willie Nelsons Gitarrenspiel beeinflusst hat, und Jimmie Rodgers, einem der Urväter der Country-Musik, dessen Songs vor allem Merle Haggard (wie Generationen von Country-Musikern) inspiriert haben.

Produced by Buddy Cannon

Willie Nelson
With a six-decade career and a catalog of more than 200 albums to his credit, the iconic Texas singer-songwriter Willie Nelsonhas earned a permanent position in pop music’s pantheon with songs combining the sophistication of Tin Pan Alley with the rough-and-tumble grit and emotional honesty of country music. He brought pop and country together on the radio in the early 1960s with unforgettable songs like “Crazy” (Patsy Cline), “Hello Walls” (Faron Young), “Funny How Time Slips Away” (Billy Walker), “Night Life” (Ray Price) and others and, by the mid-1970s, had become a superstar in his own right as a prime mover of a revolutionary and thriving outlaw country music scene. The Red Headed Stranger, Willie’s first album for Columbia Records in 1975, catapulted the artist to the front ranks of popularity, making his a name familiar in country and city households across America and around-the-world.

A seven-time Grammy Award winner, Willie Nelson has received numerous accolades including American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, Country Music Association Awards and others. He is a co-founder of Farm Aid, an annual series of fundraising events which began as an all-star benefit concert in 1985 to raise money for American family farmers. He continues to lobby against horse slaughter and produces his own blend of biodiesel fuel. An old-school road-dog troubadour with new school wheels, Willie plays concerts year-round, tirelessly touring on Honeysuckle Rose III (he rode his first two buses into the ground), taking his music and fans to places that are always worth the ride.

The very first musician to perform on the premiere episode of Austin City Limits in 1974, Willie Nelson was inducted into the inaugural class of the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame by fellow Texan Matthew McConaughey on Saturday, April 26, 2014. “There would be no Austin City Limits without Willie Nelson,” McConaughey told the audience assembled at the University of Texas at Austin, the original home of what is now America’s longest-running televised music program.

Willie Nelson, who turned 81 on April 29/April 30, is an American original, a sublime singer, master tunesmith and outlaw country’s most enduring archetype.

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