Willie Nelson Sings The Blues is what they're calling the performer's New York City concert in mid-January.
Their occasional clients include country music star Willie Nelson, who fills up his tour bus when passing through.
There were few dry eyes during Willie Nelson's rendition of Ray Charles' signature hit, Georgia On My Mind.
Willie Nelson, a local country crooner, has even started BioWillie, a biofuel firm.
In late May producers were dumbstruck by the sudden appearance of Willie Nelson's braided head on one of the screens.
He stumbled on the stuff in Hawaii, fell in love and now is a partner in the Willie Nelson Biodiesel Co.
The eighth point, if you really want to drive the price of gas down this summer, become a roadie for Willie Nelson.
While Willie Nelson sang "Me and Bobby McGee, " Will and I enjoyed talking to former 49ers quarterback Steve Young and IBM CEO Sam Palmisano.
This far in, it's obvious what to expect: pickin'-party songs, bar-band basics enlivened by loose, easygoing solos that traverse Western swing and Stardust-era Willie Nelson.
It took on Willie Nelson as a director when it licensed his name for "Bio Willie" (he gets a royalty of a penny a gallon).
Bettye LaVette has a favor to ask: "Somebody Pick Up My Pieces, " she pleads in a heartbreaking Willie Nelson song on her new album, Scene of the Crime.
Biodiesel has some powerful backers, among them singer Willie Nelson.
We get some twenty-five songs in all, plus testimony from Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, the benignly indiscreet Guy Clark, and Emmylou Harris (who gives every sign of being immortal).
His latest album, Just Across the River, features a series of duets with some of the singers he wrote for, including Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams and Vince Gill.
Earth Biofuels, the Dallas green-energy firm he founded with the help of A-listers like Willie Nelson, Morgan Freeman and Julia Roberts, has been hit with an involuntary bankruptcy petition in Delaware.
He has even suggested appointing as energy czar his friend Willie Nelson, a green country singer who fuels his tour bus with biodiesel and sells the stuff at petrol stations in Texas.
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The two performances were the latest in an annual series of benefit concerts with pop-rock performers to support Jazz at Lincoln Center, which in previous years has featured Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson and Paul Simon.
That was a letdown for investors who bought stock in the ill-fated Earth Biofuels after hearing about the company from former celebrity backers Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson and onetime cheerleader Julia Roberts. (See "Willie Nelson And Star Dust").
As Preston rose to vice president of BMI Nashville in 1964, and then to president and CEO of all of BMI (based in New York) in 1986, she would enable some songwriters (Willie Nelson and Hank Cochran were two) to buy publishing companies with advances on future song royalties, or to set up such companies of their own.
Freeman was a director and Nelson promoted Earth's "Bio-Willie" ethanol fuel mix.
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