Willie Nelson & Son (duet) Covers "Just Breathe"

Veddernarian

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LIVE MUSIC
TBT
NOT JUST A REDHEADED STEPCHILD; Like his old man Willie, Lukas Nelson is a free spirit with an independent mind.
PATRICK FLANARY
tbt* correspondent
11 February 2011
St. Petersburg Times
STPT
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At 22, a lot of years stand between Lukas Nelson and his 77-year-old father, Willie. But the two are a tight bunch, and they even recorded an album of duets together, set for release next year.

In December, Lukas and his band, Promise of the Real, independently released their self-titled debut, a record that encompasses country, reggae and Maggie's Farm-era Dylan. "There's no type of music that I don't like," he said on the phone from San Clemente, Calif. "I won't ever avert my ears."

We caught Lukas during a break from touring, and talked singing and surfing(!) with father Willie.

I've always wanted to try surfing, but I'm too old. I'm 30.

S---, 30? Are you kiddin'? I was just out there and there were 80-year-old people runnin' me over! There's 80-year-old longboarders just kickin' my ass out there.

Have you ever gotten your dad on a surfboard?

He's been up a few times. He used to paddle out on a wave kayak, but it's been awhile.

Did you and your dad ever discuss your musical independence from his notoriety?

No, there was never that talk. I don't really think that heavily into the whole idea that he's independent and I'm independent. We know that; that's a given. But we love to play music together. We just want to have fun and enjoy our time on the earth together because it's limited, just like everything.

Do musicians like Ziggy Marley, Jakob Dylan and Justin Townes Earle - each great in his own right - face certain additional pressures due to the success of their fathers?

Not really. I think that some people take it worse than others. I've always been taught what defines you is not what happens to you, but how you react to it.

What's your feeling on country music's pop direction today?

There's always gonna be fluff, everywhere you go. And it's always been this way, but you have to kind of look a little harder to see where the good s--- is, you know?

Where do you look?

I'm gonna get a little esoteric here, but I think it finds you. I think that if you are looking for good music and if you're open to it and you're accepting that it does exist, I think it'll present itself to you. ... I think Pearl Jam's latest record (Backspacer) was really, really great. Me and my dad did a cover of Just Breathe together. Me and my dad just did a record together with a producer from Nashville named Buddy Cannon. And we did 21 duets together. So that should come out in the next year or so.

Care to name some other duets?

I did another version of The Sound of Your Memory. I wrote a song called Every Time He Drinks He Thinks of Her. And then we did a bunch of Hank Williams songs, a few Hank Cochran songs, Hank Snow, some of my dad's ...

And Pearl Jam.

I think Eddie Vedder wrote the best song of the year. I really love that band.

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Willie Nelson

Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real will open for his dad at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ruth Eckerd Hall, 1111 McMullen-Booth Road, Clearwater. $42.50-$88. (727) 791-7400.

PHOTO - Publicity: Promise of the Real (with Lukas Nelson, second from right) will open for Lukas' dad, Willie Nelson, Wednesday at Ruth Eckerd Hall. With Lukas are fellow band members Anthony LoGerfo, Tato Melgar and Corey McCormick.

H.Chinaski

nice.

GS163319

Lukas is great. Good player. And really, really down to earth.

I saw him a year or two ago at a great Colorado venue, the Mishawaka (it's up a canyon, on a river). He was playing in the dirt with a random child all day before his set. Incredibly refreshing.

cbrunelle783

Wasn't there a video of Eddie talking about a country version of the song? I want to say it was filmed in Europe this summer but of course I can't find it.

randallanddarcy

cbrunelle783 wrote:

Wasn't there a video of Eddie talking about a country version of the song? I want to say it was filmed in Europe this summer but of course I can't find it.

That was Hyde Park.

cbrunelle783

randallanddarcy wrote:

cbrunelle783 wrote:

Wasn't there a video of Eddie talking about a country version of the song? I want to say it was filmed in Europe this summer but of course I can't find it.

That was Hyde Park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Llo-r22vvww&playnext=1&list=PL23AFAF30583A4C7C

haha "it was almost like seeing your parents naked" 4 minutes in

Empty Glass

I haven't heard it yet, but do they change the words to

"Let's just inhale"







ok, not all jokes are winners

BigGameCaptain

Mike was over here on Maui and played with Lucas at Willie's bar in Paia. Lots of faces were melted off that night!

Check out Lucas's Facebook page.

justam

Wow! That was nice of him to say that he thinks Ed wrote the best song of the year.

helplessdancer

ilovewillie

LikeAnOcean

justam wrote:

Wow! That was nice of him to say that he thinks Ed wrote the best song of the year.

Bono said the same thing about Marker in the Sand back in '06.. Glad to see PJ get the respect they deserve.

usamamasan1

Super tyt.
Lionel Richie and Willie got a duet of "easy like Sunday morning" dropping soon

TunnelThroughDenial

Did this cover ever get released?