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I Don't Know A Thing About Love
''I Don't Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard'' is the 73rd solo studio album by Willie Nelson, released on March 3, 2023. Produced by Buddy Cannon, the album is a tribute to the songwriter Harlan Howard. Content The album is a collection of ten songs performed by Nelson and originally written by Harlan Howard. Howard gave Nelson his first job as a songwriter for the publishing company Pamper Music. The album was produced by Buddy Cannon, and features cover art by Nelson's son, Micah. The album was released on March 3, 2023, the 21st anniversary of Howard's death. On January 17, 2023, Nelson released the single " Busted". Critical reception ''I Don't Know A Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard'' received positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 84 out of 100 based on four reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Stephen Thomas E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American country musician. The critical success of the album ''Shotgun Willie'' (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of ''Red Headed Stranger'' (1975) and '' Stardust'' (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana. Born during the Great Depression and raised by his grandparents, Nelson wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the U.S. Air Force but was later discharged d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonnie Wilson
Lonnie Wilson is an American drummer, songwriter, and record producer, known primarily for his work in country music. Born in Monroe, Louisiana, Wilson was originally the lead singer of the band Bandana, which charted ten singles on the Hot Country Songs charts between 1982 and 1986. Wilson quit the band in 1986 to spend time with his family and wife, Donna. Wilson began playing as a session drummer in the early 1990s. One of the first albums to feature his drumming was Brooks & Dunn's debut ''Brand New Man''. Other songs featuring Wilson on drums include "Indian Outlaw" by Tim McGraw, "I Swear" by John Michael Montgomery, "Time Marches On" by Tracy Lawrence, and " This Kiss" by Faith Hill. He was named Drummer of the Year by the Academy of Country Music in 2002 and 2004. In the late 1990s, Wilson co-produced for Joe Diffie on new material for his 1998 ''Greatest Hits'' album and his 1999 studio album '' A Night to Remember''. Wilson is also a songwriter, having written "Ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Raphael
Michael Siegfried "Mickey" Raphael (born November 7, 1951) is an American harmonica player, music producer and actor best known for his work with Willie Nelson, with whom he has toured as part of The Family since 1973. He has performed or recorded with Jason Isbell, Townes Van Zandt, Chris Stapleton, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Morello, Paul Simon, Snoop Dogg, Engelbert Humperdinck, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Leon Bridges, Neil Young, Norah Jones, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Duane Eddy, Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Leon Russell, Lionel Richie, Elton John, Mötley Crüe, Zac Brown Band, Dave Matthews, Blue Öyster Cult, Wynton Marsalis, Lonnie Donnegan, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith, U2, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Don Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Blind Boys of Alabama, Waylon Jennings, Aaron Lewis, Margo Price, Rodney Crowell, Gov't Mule, Supersuckers and Dan Auerbach. Production credits include '' Naked Willie'', a stripped-down remix of Willie Nelson's early RCA catalog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trigger (guitar)
Trigger is the Martin N-20 nylon-string classical acoustic guitar used by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. Early in his career, Nelson tested several guitars by different companies. After his Baldwin guitar was damaged in 1969, he purchased the Martin guitar, but retained the electrical components from the Baldwin guitar. Nelson based his desired style on Django Reinhardt's playing and guitar sound. He opted to amplify the acoustic guitar, resulting in his signature sound. Background As Nelson was an RCA Records artist, several guitar manufacturers would either loan or gift him their instruments to test them. Earlier in his career, Nelson played instruments of the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, with models including the Telecaster, Jaguar, and Jazzmaster. Nelson later moved on to Gibson Guitars. In 1969, before a concert at Panamerican Ballroom near Houston, Texas, Baldwin Company gave Nelson the 800C Classical Acoustic-Electric Guitar model with a Prism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melonie Cannon
Melonie Cannon is an American singer, blending country and bluegrass on her solo albums and session work. Willie Nelson said, "Melonie Cannon is one of the best singers I know." Biography Early years Cannon was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but her family moved to Nashville when she was three years old. She is the daughter of country music songwriter and producer Buddy Cannon, and the sister of songwriter Marla Cannon-Goodman. At age 14, she began singing background vocals for artists such as John Michael Montgomery, George Jones, and Kenny Chesney. At age 16, she recorded a duet of "Cry Cry Darlin'" with Sammy Kershaw. After a stint in the Army, she returned to Nashville to sing demos and help her father with his publishing and production companies. Ronnie Bowman heard her sing at Nashville's Station Inn, and helped her assemble a group of musicians to record with. Solo recordings Her self-titled debut album, released in 2004 on the Skaggs Family record label, was produced by B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Many Rivers
"Too Many Rivers" is a Harlan Howard composition which was a 1965 hit single for Brenda Lee. Brenda Lee version Brenda Lee recorded "Too Many Rivers" in a January 29, 1964 recording session at Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, TN overseen by producer Owen Bradley. The song was not released until May 1965 and then as the B-side of the single " No One". However, airplay favored "Too Many Rivers", which entered the Hot 100 in ''Billboard'' dated May 29, 1965 at #96, besting the #98 debut of "No One", which then dropped off the chart. "Too Many Rivers" continued to climb up the charts, and eventually ascended to a #13 peak on the Hot 100 dated July 13, 1965. "Too Many Rivers" also reached #22 on the UK chart, affording Lee her final UK hit. Other versions The first evident release of "Too Many Rivers" had been a single release for C&W singer Claude Gray whose version had also been recorded at Columbia Recording Studio Nashville, its session occurring on September 17, 1964. Subseq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Called Me Baby
"She Called Me Baby" is a country song written in 1961 by Harlan Howard. Background The song was first recorded by Howard for his September 1961 album release ''Harlan Howard Sings Harlan Howard''. The track was released as a single in January 1962 and became a breakout hit in Texas where, according to his widow Melanie Howard, Harlan Howard spent two weeks doing promotion before returning home to Nashville and refusing to do further promotion re his singing career as it interfered with his primary musical focus: songwriting. Charlie Rich Recording Charlie Rich recorded "She Called Me Baby" at one of a series of sessions produced by Chet Atkins at RCA Victor Studio in Nashville which occurred between March 1964 and February 1965. Like many Atkins-produced tracks of this era, "She Called Me Baby" featured choral backing and strings, a style prominent on other Rich recordings of the time. Despite a number of recorded versions, "She Called Me Baby" did not appear in the Top 20 of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tompall Glaser
Thomas Paul "Tompall" Glaser (September 3, 1933 – August 12, 2013) was an American outlaw country music artist. Biography Glaser was born in Spalding, Nebraska, the son of Alice Harriet Marie (née Davis) and Louis Nicholas Glaser. He was raised on a farm. In the 1950s, he recorded as a solo artist. He later formed a trio with brothers Chuck and Jim called Tompall & the Glaser Brothers. Tompall and his brothers shared the bill with Patsy Cline at The Mint casino in Las Vegas, in November–December 1962. Tompall Glaser's highest-charting solo single was Shel Silverstein's "Put Another Log on the Fire", which peaked at No. 21 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles (now Hot Country Songs) charts in 1975. Tompall appeared with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Jessi Colter on the album ''Wanted! The Outlaws''. In the 1970s his Nashville recording studio, dubbed "Hillbilly Central," was considered the nerve center of the nascent Outlaw country movement. Glaser, W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Streets Of Baltimore
"Streets of Baltimore" is a heavily covered country song written by Tompall Glaser and Harlan Howard in 1966. Although Glaser co-wrote the song, his group, Tompall Glaser & The Glaser Brothers, were not the first to record the song. Bobby Bare released his Chet Atkins-produced version in June 1966; the Glasers recorded theirs in September 1966. The singer tells us he left his home to take his wife to where she wanted to be: Baltimore. After working hard and trying to make a home, and despite feeling proud to give his woman what she was longing for as well as kind of liking said streets, he finds out his wife loves the Baltimore night life more than she loves him, so he returns to his Tennessee farm without her. Gram Parsons' version of the song has been featured on the HBO series ''The Wire'', which is set in Baltimore. Pitchfork said, "Gram Parsons may have made it famous, but "Streets of Baltimore" belongs to Bobby Bare. From his album of the same name, it is a relic of Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Don't Know A Thing About Love (The Moon Song)
"I Don't Know a Thing About Love (The Moon Song)" is a song written by Harlan Howard and recorded by the American country music artist, Conway Twitty, with backing vocals by Twitty's daughter Joni Lee Joni Lee Ryles ( née Jenkins; born July 2, 1957) is an American country music singer. The daughter of Conway Twitty, she recorded several singles as Joni Penn. Her most successful solo single was "I'm Sorry Charlie", which peaked at number 16 on .... It was released in July 1984, as the second single from the album '' By Heart''. The song was Twitty's 48th number-one overall country hit. In the US, the single went to number one for one week and spent a total of 14 weeks on the country chart. Cover version The song was covered by the American country music artist, Cody Johnson, for his 2021 album, '' Human: The Double Album''. Willie Nelson chose it as the title track to his Harlan Howard tribute album in 2023. Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts References 1984 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Turned Her That Way
"Life Turned Her That Way" is a song written by Harlan Howard and first recorded by American country music artist Little Jimmy Dickens in 1965. Mel Tillis recorded it in 1967 and released it as a single in February and was his seventh chart entry. Ricky Van Shelton would also later record it and release it as a single. It was the fourth single released from his debut album, ''Wild-Eyed Dream''. Released in late 1987, it was his second number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in early 1988. Covers This song was recorded by Little Jimmy Dickens (1965). In the 1960s, it was covered in 1967 by Mel Tillis and released as a single where it went to No. 11, Charley Pride (1967), George Jones (1967), James Carr (1968), Sonny Strickland (Unknown year), and Ernest Tubb (1968). Many more famous country acts would cover the song such as Sleepy LaBeef, Willie Nelson and Conway Twitty. Soul singer James Carr recorded it in 1968. Charts Mel Tillis Ricky Van Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
