''Two Men with the Blues'' is a live album by

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'' (197 ...

and

Wynton Marsalis Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awar ...

. It was released on July 8, 2008 by

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and sold 22,000 copies in it first week of release. It was recorded on January 12–13, 2007, at

Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center in New York City. The organization was founded in 1987 and opened at Time Warner Center in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orches ...

in New York City.

Track listing

Personnel

– trumpet and vocals *

– vocals and guitar * Walter Blanding – saxophone *

Dan Nimmer Dan Nimmer (born 1982) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Early life Nimmer was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1982. He started playing the piano by ear.Keogh, Tom (June 28, 2008"Jazz Pianist Dan Nimmer Shares the Key to His Success" ...

– piano *

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 reco ...

– harmonica * Carlos Henriquez – bass * Ali Jackson – drums

Charts

The album held the number one position in the ''Billboard'' Jazz Albums chart for four weeks. It spent a total of 67 weeks on that chart. It peaked at number 20 on both the ''Billboard'' 200 and the ''Billboard''

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charts, spending eight weeks and one week on the charts respectively.

References

External links

Official site

Willie Nelson's official website

Wynton Marsalis's official website
Wynton Marsalis live albums Collaborative albums Live blues albums 2008 live albums Live jazz albums Willie Nelson live albums Blue Note Records live albums Albums recorded at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts {{blues-album-stub