{"id":73066,"date":"2020-04-14T09:50:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T07:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=73066"},"modified":"2020-07-30T01:42:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T01:42:07","slug":"ae-celebrates-the-career-of-willie-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/14\/ae-celebrates-the-career-of-willie-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"A&E Celebrates The Career Of Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A&E Celebrates Career Of Willie Nelson<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\u2018American Outlaw\u2019 This Was An Incredible Show!<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A&E celebrated the career of country performer\u00a0Willie Nelson\u00a0on last night\u2019s (4\/12) concert program,\u00a0American Outlaw<\/em>. Previously filmed at Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena and emceed by actor Ed Helms, artist friends who joined the legend onstage included\u00a0Jamey Johnson,\u00a0Chris Stapleton,\u00a0Sheryl Crow,\u00a0Eric Church, The Avett Brothers,\u00a0Jimmy Buffett,\u00a0Vince Gill, and others. Additionally, celebrity friends and family members told their own memories about the outlaw singer, including Nelson\u2019s sons Micah and Lukas Nelson.<\/p>\n

One appearance, however, that made the telecast the most memorable was\u00a0George Strait, who shared the stage with Nelson for the first time. Yes, you read that right. Texan country artists Willie Nelson and George Strait have never performed together, until this moment.<\/p>\n

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In one of the show\u2019s interview segments, Strait jokingly said to the camera, \u201cI told [Nelson], I was getting a complex [because] I was about the only one who had never sang with Willie before.\u201d Nelson then told Strait to begin writing a song for the two to perform, but even \u201cThe King\u2019\u201d of country music got nervous with the thought of writing with Willie.<\/p>\n

Strait continued, \u201cI woke up one morning and decided to take a stab at it. I sent [the song] over to Willie, and I said, \u2018Do you think that you might want to do this?\u2019\u201d The end result was Nelson adding in his lines to complete the tune, titled \u201cSing One With Willie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Following their debut performance, the legends continued by singing the classic, \u201cGood Hearted Woman,\u201d\u00a0made famous\u00a0by Nelson and the late Waylon Jennings.<\/p>\n

Other highlights from the show included Jamey Johnson giving a stirring rendition of the hit, \u201cGeorgia On My Mind,\u201d; Emmylou Harris and Nelson performing \u201cPancho and Lefty\u201d; and Nelson with rock artist Dave Matthews on the timeless Willie-penned track, \u201cCrazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tribute ended with Nelson and an all-star group singing his well-known hit, \u201cOn The Road Again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A&E Celebrates Career Of Willie Nelson \u2018American Outlaw\u2019 This Was An Incredible Show! A&E celebrated the career of country performer\u00a0Willie Nelson\u00a0on last night\u2019s (4\/12) concert program,\u00a0American Outlaw. Previously filmed at Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena and emceed by actor Ed Helms, artist friends who joined the legend onstage included\u00a0Jamey Johnson,\u00a0Chris Stapleton,\u00a0Sheryl Crow,\u00a0Eric Church, The Avett Brothers,\u00a0Jimmy Buffett,\u00a0Vince Gill, and others. Additionally, celebrity friends and family members told their own memories about the outlaw singer, including Nelson\u2019s sons Micah and Lukas Nelson. One appearance, however, that made the telecast the most memorable was\u00a0George<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73476,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73066\/revisions\/73476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}