Willie & The Wheel

It’s a match made in honky-tonk heaven. Outlaw-country icon Willie Nelson and Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel have teamed up for an album, “Willie and the Wheel,” which comes out today, and will kick off a joint tour February 11, 2009.
The album was conceived by legendary R&B producer Jerry Wexler, who got to hear the finished product before he passed away in August. Wexler first tried to make a Western swing album with Nelson in the ’70s, when Nelson was recording for Wexler’s label, Atlantic. The project was shelved when Nelson moved to the Columbia label, but revived after Nelson toured with Merle Haggard, Ray Price and Asleep at the Wheel in 2007.
info & album available HERE

The Lost Highway Men

Colbert Christmas on DVD…that was fast!

This is, hands down, the best Christmas special ever. It is so unlike all those blasphemous things that have passed as Christmas specials, on network TV in the past. Great songs; great guests; all around a great time. Guests included Elvis Costello, Feist, Toby Keith, John Legend, Willie Nelson and Jon Stewart.
This Stephen Colbert’s Christmas Special, upholds the Judeo-Christian traditions, like no other show has done before AND it uses goats in ways that less imaginative minds could not fathom.
A great family treat, if your family enjoys the conservative traditions of Christmas like my family does. A must have. A must buy.
video HERE
DVD available HERE