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Willie Nelson Has a Bluegrass Album in the Can; Says Trigger Will Carry on After His Death

Willie Nelson has recorded a bluegrass album “with a lot of great bluegrass musicians,” he tells AARP the Magazine.

Nelson didn’t reveal any names, the title or release date for the LP. But one familiar character is not on the record.

“I didn’t play Trigger at all,” Nelson said. “It’s the first album ever that I didn’t play Trigger since I’ve had him.”

Nelson is referring to his rode-hard Martin N-20 acoustic guitar, which has been with Nelson since 1969.

“Trigger has a life and a personality all his own,” Nelson said. “Whenever I die, I’ll let somebody else decide what Trigger does. He should be somewhere where he’s appreciated.”

While Nelson, who turns 90 April 29, will talk about death, don’t ask him about retirement.

“Jokingly, I retire after every tour,” he said. “But I’m always ready to go back again. I like the bus. I have everything I need on the bus. I never have to go into a hotel room anywhere. It’s not that bad.”

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Willie Nelson’s Guitar “Trigger”

Trigger is a Martin N-20 nylon-string acoustic with the serial number 242830. Trigger dates to early 1969, which means it was brand-new when Willie obtained it that same year. Why was Willie in need of a new guitar? Because he had laid his beloved Baldwin 800C acoustic on stage between sets and as the story goes, a drunkard stepped on it.

With Willie's Baldwin broken, he took it to luthier Shot Jackson, who indeed deemed the guitar unsalvageable. Instead, Shot Jackson sold Willie a brand-new Martin N-20 for $750 – which current inflation puts at more than $5,600.

The N-20 was first catalogued in 1969, though Martin began building them in 1968. The model wasn’t a bestseller by any means. Only 262 were made in 1969, making it quite rare.

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A close-up of Willie Nelson and Trigger in 1978.

Trigger The life of a guitar.

The guitar—a Martin N-20 classical, serial number 242830

“Django had actually played a steel-stringed Selmer guitar, but to Willie, its mellow, plucky tone (a product of the tortoiseshell button Django used as a pick) sounded like a gut-string. Like his Martin.”   

“ Willie’s endless party ended—momentarily—in late 1990, when years of unpaid taxes caught up with him. Federal agents invaded his Pedernales ranch and confiscated everything they could get their hands on. One thing they didn’t take—maybe the most valuable thing on the property—was the guitar, which was sitting on Willie’s bus, parked just down the road from the main house. Willie was in Hawaii during the raid, and when he heard that his guitar had been spared, he asked his daughter Lana to send it to him, just to be safe. She grabbed the guitar and got it back to her dad.”                                        

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Dick Evener working years after planning to retire from music business

LANCASTER – Dick Evener is outwardly not the retiring form. The Signature Music retailer proprietor tried to retire in 2016 however that effort solely lasted three weeks.

He returned to work and moved his store to the Shoppes at Honest & Ety at 2249 W. Honest Ave. It had beforehand been at 726 N. Memorial Drive. He repairs musical devices and likewise sells a restricted quantity of them.

Evener additionally sells musical equipment like strings and tuners.

“I have been engaged on devices since 1975,” Evener stated. “Once I thought I would shut down about 5 or 6 years in the past I discovered that I had no different interest aside from music. I am actual completely happy to say that lots of people that I would been engaged on their devices for years have been calling me and saying they wanted their guitars repaired or restrung. So after loads of these I made a decision to reopen.”

He stated another excuse his retirement failed is as a result of he did not plan on what he would do in retirement. He stated he has no quick plans for one more retirement attempt. The one completely different is Evener now works 5 days every week as a substitute of the six or seven he used to work.

Additionally, he was once a Fender and Martin guitar supplier however is not.

“In all probability 80% is adjusting and repairing,” Evener stated. “The opposite 20% is perhaps promoting equipment. It is type of switched round. Years in the past once I had the massive retailer downtown it was in all probability simply the other. The 80% was instrument gross sales and perhaps the stability of that in restore.”

By the years, he is repaired and bought devices to well-known musicians, together with Lancaster resident Bob Harvey. Harvey was the unique bass participant for the Jefferson Airplane.

“I received to fulfill Willie Nelson and all these names,” Evener stated. “However I believe I am nearly equally as happy with the native gamers that are available and I work on their devices. They’re on the market on the weekends enjoying. I am actual happy with doing that for them.”

Evener was closed earlier this 12 months for 2 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However he stated enterprise has gone effectively since he reopened in Could.

“It looks like the gross sales simply got here proper again,” Evener stated. “Lots of repairs. I believe lots of people since they have been inside received the guitars out of the closet and introduced loads of these in for me to restring and get them enjoying once more.”

Evener additionally performs guitar and was within the native band the Mavericks for greater than 20 years. A couple of 12 months in the past he joined Brandy 1976, however the pandemic has mainly put a halt to reside performances.

Evener is well-versed in basic rock and country-rock.

Alongside along with his musical profession, Evener was the town’s sanitation director within the Nineties.

“It was a fantastic job,” he stated. “I did loads of budgets and metropolis council on Monday nights. It was actually Monday via Saturday, six days every week. I ran the switch station and I began the curbside recycling, which labored fairly effectively for some time.”

However he left his metropolis job to open his music retailer.

Evener began the enterprise on the Plaza Procuring Heart earlier than transferring to the Columbian constructing on Most important Avenue for eight years. He then moved to a Honest Avenue location for 3 years, then moved to the Memorial Drive location earlier than transferring to his present location.

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Willie Nelson’s Martin N-20 Guitar

In his book, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to Happiness in Your Heart, Nelson described the influence of the guitar in his style: "One of the secrets to my sound is almost beyond explanation. My battered old Martin guitar, Trigger, has the greatest tone I've ever heard from a guitar. ... If I picked up the finest guitar made this year and tried to play my solos exactly the way you heard them on the radio or even at last night's show, I'd always be a copy of myself and we'd all end up bored. But if I play an instrument that is now a part of me, and do it according to the way that feels right for me ... I'll always be an original".

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Vidéo : Willie Nelson interprète son nouveau titre, Me and You, en studio

La chanson apparaît sur le prochain album de « l’Étranger au bandeau rouge », Last Man Standing.

Willie Nelson aura 85 ans le 30 avril, trois jours seulement après la sortie de son prochain album, Last Man Standing. La chanson du même nom, publiée dans un clip en février dernier, narre les décès d’amis et de partenaires musicaux, où la longévité du roi de l’Outlaw country fait figure d’épée à double tranchant – en somme, survivre à ses pairs est une peine indéfinissable. Mais dans Me and You, le dernier morceau sorti de la nouvelle collection, il semble regretter la perte d’amis avec lesquels il a rompu les liens pour divergence politique. Me and You prend ces divergences à contre-courant, célébrant la solidarité dans une amitié qui transcende, voire évite totalement, ces abîmes idéologiques.

Last Man Standing a été produit par le copain de longue date de Nelson et collaborateur fréquent, Buddy Cannon, qui est vu dans le clip ci-dessus avec lui, donnant au titre de la chanson une couleur particulière. Trigger, la fidèle guitare Martin N-20 de Nelson et l’harmonica de Mickey Raphael, un incontournable de la production musicale de Nelson pendant des décennies, sont également présents.

Nelson a récemment annoncé la programmation de son festival à Austin, le 4th of July Picnic. Il est également à la tête de l’Outlaw Music Festival Tour de cet été, avec des artistes comme Sturgill Simpson, Elvis Costello et Brandi Carlile.

Écrit par Stephen L.Betts, traduit par Baptiste Manzinali

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Martin N 20 With Prismatone Pickup (haiku) "Annual wellness - exam and patch up for a - guitar named Trigger" Repairing Willie Nelson's Trigger

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Great Acoustics: 1958 Martin 00-18G

From the February 2018 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY GREG OLWELL While many people are familiar with the tattered nylon-string Martin N-20 Willie Nelson calls Trigger, few seem to know about the other guitars Martin built with an internal stamp that reads, “Made for gut or nylon strings.” Martin produced a few classical models by attaching a wide, 12-fret neck […] from Acoustic Guitar http://ift.tt/2m6aS1i via http://ift.tt/1OigGcV

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The Sound (Bites) of Live Music - 2017 in Review

It was another fabulous year in live music.

Concerts big and small; acts Sound Bites has seen scads of times and acts that broke his Sound cherry; festivals and “an evening with;” old timers and newcomers. These concerts were the sound of live music in 2017 and Sound Bites has the best of them below.

Shows are ranked in the approximate oder of quality with the number of times seen in parentheses. The concerts took place in Columbus, Ohio, unless otherwise noted and are ranked by grade. Any shows that merited a B+ or lower are excluded.

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Rhiannon Giddens/Steep Canyon Rangers (6)/Pokey LaFarge/Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Music Hall, Cincinnati, Nov. 12: The third of three concerts/recording sessions took place on a Sunday afternoon as Giddens, the Rangers and LaFarge focused on post-World War I American compositions. A sublime mixture of classical music and Americana’s best contemporary artists and the show of the year. It’ll be released sometime in 2018 as the second in an ongoing series.

Punch Brothers (3)/I’m With Her/Julian Lage, Taft Theatre, Cincinnati, Aug. 12 Playing alone, together and in various combinations on the American Acoustic tour, the co-headliners slayed the audience with originals and covers of everyone from Adele to Randy Newman.

Tommy Emmanuel and David Grisman, Speaker Jo Anne Davidson Theater, Nov. 10: Emmanuel played an opening solo-acoustic set before appearing with Grisman for songs from their duet LP, Pickin’, and other selections. Pure, jaw-dropping virtuosity.

Roger Waters (2), Nationwide Arena, July 20: A left-wing, multi-media assault on the senses that found Waters revisiting politically minded tracks spanning from Pink Floyd’s Meddle to his own Is This the Life We Really Want?

Steve Martin (2)/Martin Short/Steep Canyon Rangers (5), PNC Pavilion, Cincinnati, Sept. 16: Mostly a comedy show - and one so hilarious Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites walked out with sore throats and tummies from laughing so hard - this concert also featured the Rangers playing bluegrass alone and with their patron, Martin. And when Short danced across the stage in drag and with humongous fake boobies during “Pretty Little One,” the two art forms merged in perfection.

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Willie Nelson (11)/Van Morrison (3)/Avett Brothers, et al. Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, Pa., Oct. 10: At the Hershey stop of Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival, Nelson was in top form with an expanded, guest-filled band; Morrison played a spellbinding concert that was the best of the three the Sound Biteses saw this year; and the Avetts proved all the fuss is legit.

Brian Wilson, Palace Theatre, April 21: Backed by an enormous band that included former Beach Boys Al Jardine and Blondie Chapman, Wilson revisited Pet Sounds and surrounded it with big hits (“I Get Around”) and deep cuts (“California Saga”). Sublime doesn’t touch it.

Van Morrison (2), Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Fla, Jan. 18: After seeing Morrison for the first time the night before and thinking nothing could be better, the man came back and proved Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites wrong, playing a different set and wailing away on saxophone, guitar and harp.

Van Morrison, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Fla., Jan 17: The only thing better than seeing Morrison for the first time is seeing him subsequently.

Los Lobos (13), Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, March 31: The band played Kiko in its entirety and stretched it to two hours, keeping the essence of their high-watermark album while futzing with the arrangements enough to keep things interesting for those of us who have the LP tattooed on our brains from repeated listenings over the past 25 years.

David Crosby & Friends, Kent Stage, Kent, Ohio, Nov. 5: Sound Bites endured a solo, three-plus-hour drive through thunderstorms and a tornado warning and arrived at the Kent Stage stressed out, soaking wet and with just minutes to spare. The bad vibes melted away about 40 seconds after Crosby and his stellar band took the stage with “In My Dreams” and the ride home was just fine after an amazing performance from rock’s premier male singer.

Tedeschi Trucks Band (8)/Wood Brothers (3)/Hot Tuna (7), Rose Music Center, Huber Heights, Ohio, July 22: All three bands were in top form on this stop on the Wheels of Soul tour, even if the Woods and Hot Tuna didn’t get enough stage time. All was forgiven when each band joined in during Tedeschi Trucks’ typically searing headlining set, which featured high-test originals and covers and made Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites wish they had attended the previous evening in Cincinnati.

Chicago (12), Rose Music Center, Huber Heights, Ohio, May 20: Playing a set short on schlock and long on tracks from the Terry Kath era, Chicago played the best of the dozen concerts Sound Bites has seen of the band since 1982. Chicago was a rock band at first and it is a rock band now.

Robert Cray Band (8), Midland Theatre, Newark, Ohio, Sept. 29: Cray doesn’t mess around - he plays his songs in a workmanlike manner, plays them well and still sounds almost exactly like the guy who first came on to the scene nearly four decades ago. Ageless. And timeless.

Wood Brothers (4) Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, Ohio, Nov. 9: Debuting tracks from their forthcoming album and playing old favorites, the Woods played the best of the four concerts Sound Bites has been lucky enough to see from the band. Though their named after brothers Oliver and Chris, multi-instrumentalist Jano Rix is the trio’s secret weapon.

Martin Barre (2), Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza, May 3: Playing acoustic and electric sets, Barre and his spectacular, three-piece band nailed Jethro Tull songs from across the band’s catalog, mixing them in with periodic selections from Barre’s solo career.

Rosanne Cash (2), Kuss Auditorium, Springfield, Ohio, Feb. 11: Performing in an acoustic-duo setting with husband John Levanthal, Cash showed herself a better singer live than in studio and Leventhal’s arrangements made her songs sparkle in the sparse, in-concert setting.

Dweezil Zappa (6), Express Live!, Jan. 22: Fomerly known as Zappa Plays Zappa, Dweezil and his crack band somehow managed to pull off Daddy’s songs in a way that was both appropriately reverent and appropriately irreverent. Don’t think of Dweezil and company as a tribute group. Think of them as a rock ‘n’ roll symphony interpreting one of the 20th century’s most-important composers.

Los Lobos (14), Music Box Supper Club, Cleveland, April 1: With Kiko in the rear view, a looser Lobos took the stage the following evening with a retrospective set of originals and covers that found the band members switching instruments, taking requests and inviting up a local ringer on stage to shred with the wolf pack. On any given night, Los Lobos are capable to going places only a few bands can go - this was one of them.

Leo Kottke (4), Thirty One West, Newark, Ohio, Oct. 24: All by his lonesome but sounding like a quartet, Kottke showed once again why, like Tigger, he’s the only one.

Old Crow Medicine Show (2), Express Live!, May 31: Playing Bob Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde from front to back, the Crows put a new twist on an old standby, adding a bunch and taking away nothing. There was a nice tribute to the recently departed Gregg Allman via “Midnight Rider” in the encore, which also featured (natch) the Dylan co-write “Wagon Wheel.”

Bruce Hornsby (10), Midland Theatre, Newark, Ohio, Sept. 22: If there’s anyone more versatile than Hornsby, Sound Bites is yet to meet him. This solo-piano workout took the concept of recital to a whole ‘nother level.

Southern Culture on the Skids (2), Skully’s Music Diner, May 9: “Too Much Pork for Just one Fork.” “House of Bamboo.” The only thing that outshines SCOT’s sense of humor is SCOT’s musicianship. Flying fried chicken and fans dancing onstage only add to the shenanigans when they come to town.

Bob Weir & the Campfire Band, Proctor & Gamble Hall, Cincinnati, Jan. 12: Backed by members of the National in an acoustic-centric set that was heavy on songs from Blue Mountain, Weir put on the best performance Sound Bites has seen out of him in a decade or more and proved he should do more shows that move away from his Grateful Dead legacy. When “Oh Boy” popped out of “Dark Star,” all was right with the universe.

Del McCoury Band (2), Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, Ohio, March 4: There’s bluegrass. And then there’s the Del McCoury Band.

The HillBenders, Fur Peace Ranch, Pomeroy, Ohio, Aug. 5: The Who’s Tommy is even creepier when performed in a bluegrass setting. The HillBenders opened for themselves with a set of originals before diving into the tale of the deaf, dumb and blind kid. If this tour comes to your town, go.

Tedeschi Trucks Band (7), Palace Theatre, Jan. 23: This was the weakest TTB show Sound Bites has ever seen. It was astounding.

Lake Street Dive, Newport Music Hall, Aug. 10: Rachael Price is mesmerizing - impossible to take your eyes and ears off. The rest of the band is just as potent and Lake Street Dive is probably the only band in the world that could make Sound Bites shake his tail feather to George Michael’s “Faith.” Their version of Wings’ “Let Me Roll It” - like the rest of their performance - also did not suck.

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Ray Wiley Hubbard (2), Woodlands Tavern, June 23: Hubbard likes to call his music “an acquired taste.” It takes about three seconds to realize this guy should be at the top of everyone’s must-see list.

Elizabeth Cook (2), Rumba Cafe, Oct. 23: At turns funny and heartbreaking, Cook possesses a gorgeous voice and an irresistible, smart-ass stage presence. She’s like Todd Snider in drag and her solo-acoustic show is anything but a drag.

Todd Snider (9), Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, Ohio, Feb. 4: At turns funny and heartbreaking, Snider possesses a laconic voice and an irresistible, smart-ass stage presence. He’s like Elizabeth Cook in jeans and his solo-acoustic show is a terrific mix of music and comedy.

Jerry Douglas Band, Thirty One West, Newark, Ohio, Aug. 15: Eschewing bluegrass for jazz, the Dobro player extraordinaire brought a huge band to Newark and nullified any disappointment by delivering a barnburner of a concert that made you wonder why he didn’t do this sooner.

Los Lobos (15), Stuart’s Opera House, Nelsonville, Ohio, Aug. 20: With bassist Conrad Lazano and guitarist Cesar Rosas MIA, the Wolves nevertheless delivered with a set heavy on rarities and covers. The pit was packed with dancers for most of the second set, proving a short-handed Los Lobos is still among the country’s best live acts.

Yonder Mountain String Band (2), A&R Music Bar, July 6: Adding more heat to an already sweaty and packed bar, YMSB proved there is life after Jeff Austin.

Holly Bowling (2), Woodlands Tavern, Feb. 10: The classical pianist who specializes in Phish and Grateful Dead covers delivered two sets of Phish and Grateful Dead covers arranged for classical piano and knocked off plenty of socks in the process.

Steel Wheels (2), King Center for the Arts, Dec. 9: When a bluegrass band features a drum solo early in the concert, you know you’re in for something different. The Steel Wheels are something different. And they’re something else as well.

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