Willie Nelson
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For more than 40 years, Willie Nelson has been a national treasure, contributing many memorable songs to our musical canon. His impact, however, extends far beyond the scope of his music. A champion of family farms, Nelson has helped mobilize support for the American farmer, both as a founder of Farm Aid and more recently as one of the nation's most knowledgeable and recognized advocates of the use of biodiesel-a clean-burning, renewable fuel made...
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Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing we have to the poet laureate of America's heart and the heartland. Told with frankness, warmth and earthy humor, here is Willie's story: his depression ere childhood, his stormy marriages, his will experiences with drugs, booze and women, his long rise to stardom, his musical and personal experiences with...
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Willie Willie Nelson reads six and one is fully dramatized by Nelson, the late Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and the late Waylon Jennings, who together were known as The Highwaymen. The collection includes: Riding for the Brand, The Black Rock Coffin Makers, Dutchman's Flat, The Nester and the Piute, Mistakes Can Kill You, Trail to Pie Town, and Big Medicine.
10) Mission Bell
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Amos Lee's 2011 album displays both range and cohesion as well as a range of emotions unified by Lee's eclectic taste and distinctive vocals. Along with production from Calexico's Joey Burns, the album includes guest appearances from Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, and Iron & Wine's Sam Beam. It also features the track El Camino.
13) Highwayman
14) Broken bridges
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The death of a loved one brings fading country music star Bo Price back to his hometown where he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart and meets his 16-year-old-daughter for the first time.
15) The journeyman
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In the wild west at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older boy while a priest takes in the younger one. Thirteen years later these two brothers will cross paths again as they both seek revenge, each in their own way.
17) Tuskegee
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This compilation by Lionel Richie takes his greatest hits and transverses musical genres with the help of various country artists.