Track Listing 1. Love Be Heard - (with Patty Griffin) 2. Mary - (with Patty Griffin/Natalie Maines) 3. All Just to Get to You - (with Joe Ely) 4. Boxcars - (with Joe Ely) 5. Everybody Loves Me - (with Alejandro Escovedo/Jon Dee Graham) 6. Break This Time - (with Alejandro Escovedo/Jon Dee Graham) 7. My Mathematical Mind - (with Spoon) 8. Everything Hits at Once - (with Spoon) 9. What I Deserve - (with Kelly Willis) 10. Travelin' Soldier - (with Natalie Maines/Bruce Robison) 11. What Would Willie Do? - (with Bruce Robison/Mickey Raphael) 12. Living in the Promiseland - (with Willie Nelson) 13. Whiskey River - (with Willie Nelson) 14. Still Is Still Moving to Me 15. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain 16. Great Divide, The 17. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys 18. Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground - (with Patty Griffin)
| Details | | Producer: | Bryant Jackson, Lopa Desai | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Recording information: Austin Music Hall, Austin, Texas (01/09/2005). SONGS FOR TSUNAMI RELIEF is a recording of a benefit concert held in Austin, Texas and organized by Texas Monthly writer Michael Hall in the wake of the devastating 2005 South Asian natural disaster, which killed over a quarter-million people. A longtime social activist and the first on board for the show, Willie Nelson is also the most well represented artist here. The Red Headed Stranger contributes wonderfully rough-and-ready versions of several of his signature tunes ("Whiskey River," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain") as well as a few lesser-known numbers, including "Still Is Still Moving to Me," a tune originally recorded for his 1993 album ACROSS THE BORDERLINE. The rest of the disc serves as a representative cross-section of music from Austin music legends. Highlights include punk-turned-roots-rocker Alejandro Escovedo's spooky, swampy, Tom Waits-ish "Everybody Loves Me" and Spoon's piano-driven indie-rock tune "My Mathematical Mind."
Editorial Reviews The album's best moments arrive with Ely cutting a serious groove on Butch Hancock's 'Boxcars' and Escovedo's brilliantly rockin' 'Everybody Loves Me'... Dirty Linen
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