[Dixielandjazz] Willie Nelson - Western Swing - Dixieland?

[Steven Holzer]

Stephen G Barbone wrote:
> Willie Nelson has a neat Western Swing album out, with Asleep at the 
> Wheel. They'll be touring soon also. Starting Feb 11 in Red Bank NJ. 
> Complete with a kick ass horn section.
>
> Some familiar tunes include:
>
> Right or Wrong
> South
> Corrine Corrina
> South
> Hesitation Blues
> I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of my Jelly Roll.
>
>
> "Asleep at the Wheel's take on Western swing should be especially 
> interesting to fans of early 20th-century American popular music. 
> Their fidelity to the source material means that traces of jazz swing, 
> ragtime and Dixieland are preserved as if in amber, sounding much as 
> they did in the '30s and '40s." - Washington Times
>
> Well, the album may not be Dixieland like the Post says, but the tour, 
> with multiple horns may be. Then again, the out chorus of Hesitation 
> on the album sure sounds like Dixieland to me. And the in chorus of 
> Jelly Roll does too. <grin>
>
> Hear them all ( and a neat clarinet player) at:
>
> http://www.willieandthewheel.com/
>
> Hmmm, Western Swing and Dixieland prospered in the last big depression 
> (1929).  Do you suppose. . . ?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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I wonder if anybody else has noticed the apparent affinity between Wilie 
Nelson and songs previously made famous by Nat King Cole. Their voices 
are worlds apart, but they seem to do well by the same material.

Steve Holzer