Willie Nelson

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Willie Nelson Says Pot Saved His Life

Willie Nelson, king hippie of country music and walking THC repository, was recently asked a question about legalizing marijuana. And guess what? He's for it. The fact that ol' Willie thinks weed oughta be legal and taxed is about as surprising as hearing that Ted Nugent acquired his dinner with a ... More >>

Occupy This Album Is as Massive, Inconsistent, and Powerful as Occupy Itself

Remember all the hand-wringing last year over the so-called disappearance of protest music? As the Occupy movement hit its peak, capturing the attention of the country, commentators and older musicians were accusing contemporary artists of failing to grapple with the major struggles of their time in ... More >>

Willie Nelson: Show Preview

Remember all the hand-wringing last year over the so-called disappearance of protest music? As the Occupy movement hit its peak, capturing the attention of the country, commentators and older musicians were accusing contemporary artists of failing to grapple with the major struggles of their time in ... More >>

Occupy Our Food Supply ... Today

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Bank of America, Occupy San Francisco -- now occupy your diet, too. Today is Occupy Our Food Supply Day, a nationwide series of actions and articles hoping to raise awareness about how corporate interests have taken over the world's food supply. As Anna Moore Lappé and ... More >>

Mountain Winery 2011: Huey Lewis! Grace Potter! Neko Case! Yacht Rock!

The Mountain Winery​Sorry for all the exclamations, but there's a lot of shows here we're going to make our parents take us to. The Mountain Winery recently announced its schedule for 2011, and there are some most notable artists coming. Among them, a five-day period this September in which b ... More >>

Trippy Beer Ballet

The Mountain Winery​Sorry for all the exclamations, but there's a lot of shows here we're going to make our parents take us to. The Mountain Winery recently announced its schedule for 2011, and there are some most notable artists coming. Among them, a five-day period this September in which b ... More >>

Willie Nelson and Family Deliver Life Lessons in Song at the Fillmore

Richard HaickWillie Nelson at the Fillmore last night.​Willie Nelson & FamilyJanuary 10, 2011@ The FillmoreBetter than: Less notorious ways of living.Welcome to life lessons with Willie Nelson and Family. Tonight's lecture will be divided into seven themes. Please don't be afraid to speak very ... More >>

Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote

Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracy​So you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>

Don't Fear the Dark

Bouncer finds friends in Pittsburgh's Pub

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Jakob Dylan and Three Legs

​Rarely has a great songwriter, a man who is an icon and a joy to behold, been very nearly outclassed by his backup singers. The only other example we know is the early work of Gram Parsons and his tiny white-hot sidekick, Emmylou Harris. Jakob Dylan's new record, Women and Country, draws inspirat ... More >>

Powerful Backup

​Rarely has a great songwriter, a man who is an icon and a joy to behold, been very nearly outclassed by his backup singers. The only other example we know is the early work of Gram Parsons and his tiny white-hot sidekick, Emmylou Harris. Jakob Dylan's new record, Women and Country, draws inspirat ... More >>

Listomania: Top Americana Picks For 2009

We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favorit ... More >>

Traveling Spinal Circus Hits San Francisco

Joe EskenaziHooray! The spinal circus is in town!​In the very same AT&T Parking Lot that was last year graced by the trailers of the acrobats, clowns, and ringmaster of Circus Vargas -- the latter, Ted McRae, ended up staying alone in the lot for days after his RV broke down -- Big Top tents h ... More >>

List: How to tell if you're living next to a marijuana grow house

Joe EskenaziHooray! The spinal circus is in town!​In the very same AT&T Parking Lot that was last year graced by the trailers of the acrobats, clowns, and ringmaster of Circus Vargas -- the latter, Ted McRae, ended up staying alone in the lot for days after his RV broke down -- Big Top tents h ... More >>

10 Things Under $10 To Do This Weekend

It's that time again. While we all hold our breaths waiting for some of that economic stimulus package to end up in our personal bank accounts (yeah right), it's all about being cheap...or, ahem, price conscious. We refuse to let you stay home this weekend to cry into your little brother's broken pi ... More >>

Phosphorescent

To Willie (Dead Oceans)

Morrissey

Years of Refusal (Lost Highway/Attack)

Friday Night: Willie Nelson at the Fillmore

Willie Nelson/Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real The Fillmore Review by Jonathan Kiefer January, 16, 2009 Better Than: The last eight years?It happened maybe three-quarters of the way through the evening, during that one loose-vamping instrumental interlude, when the red and the blue light ... More >>

Boyz II Men, Willie Nelson, and Meat Puppets: Your Monday Morning Hangover

On Friday, Willie Nelson and son Lukas graced the Fillmore with their presence (they'll be doing so till tomorrow, Jan. 20, if you missed out). All Shook Down correspondent Jonathan Kiefer waxed poetic in his review of the evening, painting Nelson in red and blue lights such that he resembled Shepar ... More >>

Willie Nelson: The Herbal Hillbilly Sinatra

On Friday, Willie Nelson and son Lukas graced the Fillmore with their presence (they'll be doing so till tomorrow, Jan. 20, if you missed out). All Shook Down correspondent Jonathan Kiefer waxed poetic in his review of the evening, painting Nelson in red and blue lights such that he resembled Shepar ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Dysfunctional Family Re-Opens Fancy-Schmancy Restaurant

By Meredith Brody You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Co ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Willie Nelson at the Fillmore in Jan.

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Free Booker T. Jones Concert Tomorrow

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Hardly Strictly's outlaws hold a S.F. roundtable

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Austin City Limits

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

They Don't Really

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price

Last of the Breed (Lost Highway)

Smuin Cracks Christmas

Last of the Breed (Lost Highway)

Willie on my mind; Dropping acid

Last of the Breed (Lost Highway)

Alt-Pride

Let's go to a fair on parade day! It seemed like a good idea.

Anthrax and Willie Nelson in the same week? How will fans of both decide?

Let's go to a fair on parade day! It seemed like a good idea.

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on March 2, 2005

Fantasia

Free Yourself

Hear This

Old Crow Medicine Show: not your average bluegrass band. The Eagles of Death Metal: not a death metal band at all.

Hear This

Brother Danielson plays quirky spirituals, and dresses as a tree; the Supersuckers blow through town with three nights of country-fried rawk

Hear This

It may be "Hardly" Strictly Bluegrass, but it's free and there are big names you won't want to miss

Willie and Family/Willie Nelson & Friends

Live/Honeysuckle Rose/San Antonio Rose (Sony Legacy) / Run That By Me One More Time/Stars & Guitars/Live and Kickin' (Lost Highway)

The Only Way From L.A. to S.F.

One definition of heaven: A week, a t-top Camaro, and the Pacific Coast Highway.

Townes Van Zandt

For the Sake of the Song | Our Mother the Mountain

Hear This

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

Night + Day

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

Reviews

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

Reviews

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

That Giant Sucking Sound

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

The Albanian Candidate

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

Recordings

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

Suspicious Minds

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson

Recordings

The many moods of country icon Willie Nelson