{"id":572565,"date":"2023-05-01T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/willie-nelson-turns-90-keith-richards-joins-hollywood-bowl-bash\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T08:12:44","slug":"willie-nelson-turns-90-keith-richards-joins-hollywood-bowl-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/willie-nelson-turns-90-keith-richards-joins-hollywood-bowl-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"#Willie Nelson Turns 90: Keith Richards Joins Hollywood Bowl Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Just call them the Rolling Stoners.<\/p>\n

\n You know you are music royalty when Keith Richards shows up to pay his respects. And the Rolling Stones icon was on hand Sunday for the second and final night of Willie Nelson\u2019s epic, 90th birthday concert at the Hollywood Bowl.<\/p>\n

\n At 79, Richards was the youngster in this pairing of living legends, and the two harmonized sweetly on two songs: Waylon Jennings\u2019 \u201cWe Had It All\u201d and the late outlaw Billy Joe Shaver\u2019s \u201cLive Forever,\u201d particularly poignant with its refrain, \u201cJust like the songs I leave behind me \/ I\u2019m gonna live forever, now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The Richards surprise came shortly after 10:00 p.m. on this cool, overcast night in the hills above Hollywood, nearly three-and-a-half hours into the evening\u2019s celebration.<\/p>\n

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\"Keith<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>

Keith Richards<\/span><\/p>\n

Randall Michelson<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Earlier in the set, giant plumes of smoke were projected against the Bowl bandshell as Jack Johnson regaled the crowd with tales of losing poker game<\/a>s to Nelson in his home state of Hawaii, a memory that inspired him to write the song \u201cWillie Got Me Stoned and Took All My Money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Marijuana would be a common theme<\/a> throughout the night. Dave Matthews, who admitted to be nervous in the presence of so many musical titans, recalled meeting Nelson 30 years ago while playing at Farm Aid, then being invited to join the country legend on his tour bus for a marathon smoking session.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen I thought it couldn\u2019t go on any longer, it had only just begun,\u201d Matthews said. (A photo commemorating the moment adorns his proud mother\u2019s mantel.) He then performed a gorgeous rendition of Nelson\u2019s \u201cFunny How Time Slips Away.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Woody Harrelson, too, was on hand in a cowboy hat to introduce a couple of marquee names \u2014 Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead \u2014 who performed the Western swing classic \u201cStay a Little Longer\u201d \u2014 and, later, Willie himself, who snuck up on him from behind. <\/p>\n

\n (The White House Plumbers<\/em> star couldn\u2019t resist getting in a plug for his West Hollywood weed dispensary, The Woods, just as he did during his Saturday Night Live<\/em> monologue in February.)<\/p>\n

\n Ethan Hawke, in a suit of peach satin, and Helen Mirren, sporting Nelson\u2019s own cowboy hat, also popped up from time to time to introduce performers as disparate as Beck, Tom Jones, Emmylou Harris and Norah Jones (who performed a touching duet with Kris Kristofferson, 86, on Kristofferson\u2019s popular romantic ballad \u201cHelp Me Make it Through the Night\u201d), and Sheryl Crow.<\/p>\n

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\"Kris<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>

Kris Kristofferson and Norah Jones<\/span><\/p>\n

Randall Michelson<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Crow recalled Kristofferson\u2019s advice to her, whispered backstage at New York\u2019s Beacon Theatre 27 years ago, to shining alongside Nelson: \u201cDon\u2019t try to sing with him \u2014\u00a0just sing louder than him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Other sparkling moments involved next-generation (just don\u2019t call them nepo-babies) country stars Shooter Jennings, a dead ringer for his father Waylon, and Lukas Nelson, Willie\u2019s boy, who dueted on \u201cGood Hearted Woman,\u201d written by their dads in 1971. <\/p>\n

\n The boys emerged again a little later along with Micah Nelson, Willie\u2019s youngest, and Rosanne Cash, daughter of Johnny Cash, for a rendition of \u201cHighwayman,\u201d the song which in 1985 inspired the founding of the supergroup The Highwaymen by their respective fathers and Kristofferson.<\/p>\n

\n By the time everyone emerged for \u201cOn the Road Again\u201d and then a sing-along of \u201cHappy Birthday to You,\u201d the Bowl bandshell emblazoned in a projection of Old Glory, it was a rare moment of patriotic pride in a true national treasure.<\/p>\n

\n Nelson deserves nothing less.<\/p>\n

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\"Emmylou<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>

Emmylou Harris<\/span><\/p>\n

Randall Michelson<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n