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An American Icon Returns to Tunica
TUNICA, MS – – Country music legend Willie Nelson is coming to Grand Casino Resort on Friday, February 9, 2007 at 9:00 PM. Tickets are $75 and $65 and are available through Ticketmaster at 901-525-1515, or at ticketmaster.com. Guests must be 21 or older. When the tireless Willie Nelson is not penning books, opening themed-restaurant franchises or marketing fossil-fuel alternatives, he hits the road to do what he does best – perform hit after chart-topping hit. Nelson is on tour supporting his latest album, Songbird, for which he enlisted Alt-Country Star Ryan Adams to produce. This 11-track album mixes revved-up rocking versions of Nelson’s originals with remade classics like Gram Parsons’ “$1000 Wedding,” Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” Jerry Garcia’s “Stella Blue” and a perfectly bittersweet Adams original “Blue Hotel.” The albums acclaim has music reviewers labeling it the best album in 2006. Born in 1933 in the tiny Central Texas farming community of Abbott, Nelson grew up in a world permeated with music: the gospel songs of the grandparents who raised him; the blues and Mexican corridas that eased the labor of the cotton fields; the country and Western Swing hits filling the airwaves from Nashville and Fort Worth...and the inner music was inside of him. "I was raised and worked in the cotton fields around Abbott with a lot of African-Americans and a lot of Mexican-Americans, and we listened to their music all the time. I guess that's why I was influenced a lot by those around me--there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields," Nelson said. Since releasing his first single in 1957, he has given birth to concept albums, gospel albums, jazz albums, movie soundtracks, myriad duet projects, Christmas albums, live albums, and an album of standards (1978's Stardust), which has become a standard in itself. His around-the-beat blues-flavored vocals set the Nashville musical establishment on its ear. His spare-sounding breakthrough album, 1975's Red-Headed Stranger, went so against the Music City grain of the day that his record company president first thought Nelson had presented him with a demo. His early-70s merger of the traditional country and long-haired hippie audiences was called suicidal at the time, but has since come to be regarded as visionary. Outside the recording studio, Nelson established himself as a champion for the family farmer with his annual Farm Aid concerts. His Fourth of July picnics have for the past quarter-century served as a rite of musical passage in Texas. His films include The Electric Horseman (with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda), Songwriter (with Kris Kristofferson), Wag the Dog (with Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman), and many others.
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