Category: Roots Music Safari

So today is Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday, Happy Birthday Willie! What can you say about this Americana Music Icon, way back when Willie, Waylon and a few others left the Nashville music scene behind for “Outlaw Music”. They blazed their own trails and music is the better for it! I picked up his career after the success of The Red-headed Stranger and Phases and Stages. the soundtrack for Honeysuckle Rose, Willie Nelson and Family Live, Stardust and many other albums are in my collection. I could go on and on about the albums with Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard and The Highway Men albums with Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon and Willie and all the great songs from “Crazy” , “On the Road Again”, “To All the Girls I Loved”, “Bloody Mary Morning” I could keep on going but I know there are lots of places on the web, including Wikipedia, where you can read about them. So I’ll just say again, Happy 80th Willie, we’re all hoping and expecting many more!!  With all the songs I could post a million videos, but I’ll go with the combination of Willie, Merle and Townes Van Zandt and “Pancho and Lefty”! Read More

So the other night I was listening to some music from the progressive bluegrass band Head for the Hills a four man band from Fort Collins, Colorado. From their Facebook page Read More

Ok so this morning was a folkie Texas Country music morning! I listened to the new album by a band called Left Arm Tan (which I usually have), Alticana and last years release from Texas singer-songwriter Matt Harlan and the Sentimentals Bow and Be Simple. You’ll be reading more about both of these great album in the near future, but for now let’s listen to some lunchtime music from Left Arm Tan.”The Ghost of Lila Pearl” from a previous album! Good Stuff! Read More