Thanks for the promote! It is a pretty good cover.
In reply to this comment by notarobot:
I don't know how I missed this for my PSA playlist. Willie Nelson is great! I had go find the full track. *Promote!

I don't know how I missed this for my PSA playlist. Willie Nelson is great! I had go find the full track. *Promote!

>> ^Sagemind:

I love that he keeps the sound original... !

I could be crazy but his inflection and tone conjure up notions of Willie Nelson for me. Not saying he's not original, just a similarity.

You know...votes are nice...but comments like yours really make it all very worthwhile. At least for me. Thank you. I am very glad you liked it.

If I may, I wonder if you would like this rendition, http://videosift.com/video/A-SONG-FOR-YOU-Leon-Russell-Friends-1971? If you like it I would like to know if you don't mind.

And please, not for vote.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
never been a huge modern blues fan, but am very grateful this video got to me.

As you have even pointed out on more than one occasion those compound eyes, I doubt you have missed or do miss much.

Actually, I was alluding to Mycrofthomlz. Perhaps not wanting to seem presumptuous, I more like eluded....

In reply to this comment by ant:
One of our members? Who? Did I miss something?

Thank you very much my friend. I am happy you like it.

In reply to this comment by enoch:
three great tastes that go great together.
*promote!

Willie Nelson, menace to society.

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it just dawned on me that some of you are old and may not understand what theyre saying. heres their accurate description of how awesome it is to be from texas:

Humidity doesn't bother me
Neither does the pouring rain
Cause 5 minutes later it's better or worse
But it never stays the same

It's hot and it's dusty
My armpits are musty
and my cowboy hat is soaked
A man on a three wheeled bike
sets me up with a 50 cent snow cone

At a quarter to two eatin' Mexican food
Free chips and beans and rice
SMILE WHEN YOU SAY TEXAS
And everything will be alright

We've got Willie Nelson
And Serial Killers
And King Of The Hill
And the moonshine distillers
And Texas is the only place to have killed
The president in his car
Heavy laws for petty crimes
Paying off probation fees
A system designed to fuck you up
That's why our prisons are our
fastest growing indusrty (fuck the system)

In 1980 John Travolta
Filmed Urban Cowboy here
Lookin' for love in all the wrong places
And drinking Gilley's beer

In the basement of the Alamo
We've got Pee Wee Hermans Bike

FUCK YA'LL WE'RE FROM TEXAS
Where the stars are big and bright
All night
Yee-Haw

I spent half my youth listening to country-western music, and I'll be damned if I can remember any lyrics to speak of.

The album I remember most is Willie Nelson's "Red Headed Stranger" which was a concept thing that my dad used to play on his 8-track.

And then there were all of the old favorites that fifth-rate bands would play at valley fairs where people of all ages would waltz and two-step on some old, worn-down basketball court in this or that county hall or fair ground.

Cans of Bud, bottles of Jack and Southern Comfort, country girls preening themselves in rear-view mirrors, the faint scent of chewing tobacco, an occasional fist-fight, and maybe getting lucky and caressing a pretty girl's breast in the moonlight, hidden somewhere safe from the crowd.

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Green Pastures (Emmylou Harris)

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Iron Storm (Black Uhuru)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Love And Marriage (Frank Sinatra)

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
Backslidin' Blues (The Del McCroury Band)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
Elephant Ride (State of Bengal)

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Deeper Love (? - Some loungy tune)

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Wharf Rat (Grateful Dead)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
Let It Whip (Dazz Band)

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Dark Sneak Love Action (Tom Tom Club)

WHAT IS 2+2?
In The Bath (Lemonjelly)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Warning Shots (Thievery Corporation)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Cannonball (The Breeders)

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
Drinking Muddy Water (North Mississippi Allstars)

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Irresistible Bitch (Prince)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
She's Not For You (Willie Nelson)

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
A Life In The Day Of Benjamin Andre (Andre 3000)

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Red Angel Dragnet (The Clash)

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Bertha (Grateful Dead)

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Mbolo (Baaba Maal)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
Cakewalk Into Town (Taj Mahal)

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Ache'n For Acres (Arrested Development)

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Fire (Jimi Hendrix)

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
Control (James Brown)

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Beat Biscuit Blues (Mike Auldridge, Bob Brozman, David Grisman)

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
The Rocky Road To Dublin (The Chieftans)

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Hand On The Pump (Cypress Hill)

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
Taxman (Greyboy Allstars covering The Beatles)

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Leaky Faucet Skank (Sad Rockets)

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
One Nation Under A Groove (Funkadelic)

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
The End (The Doors)

and the Willie Nelson tour bus causes yet another tradgedy

This bags a tenth vote http://www.videosift.com/video/Willie-Nelson-Merle-Haggard-Pancho-and-Lefty even if it's not quite indie..

Willy Nelson said it best (and im probably gonna misquote)
"stress is the number 1 killer... and the number 1 stress reliever, is cannabis."

I think everyone on here could use a lil puff puff pass to get over this whole "im gonna prove to you im right with large posts and vague examples supporting my claim" thing. Everyone, breath deep... and hold.. exhale. Its all going to be okay. Nobodies gonna change minds over a sift post so lets all move along and watch a lol cats video or something.

One might take a look at our Capitol for any evidence of a police state. We see: barricades, metal detectors, police, military soldiers at times, dogs, ID badges required for every move, vehicles checked at airports and throughout the Capitol. The people are totally disarmed, except for the police and the criminals. But worse yet, surveillance cameras in Washington are everywhere to ensure our safety

Almost all of our economic activities depend upon receiving the proper permits from the federal government. Transactions involving guns, food, medicine, smoking, drinking, hiring, firing, wages, politically correct speech, land use, fishing, hunting, buying a house, business mergers and acquisitions, selling stocks and bonds, and farming all require approval and strict regulation from our federal government. If this is not done properly and in a timely fashion, economic penalties and even imprisonment are likely consequences.

Because government pays for much of our health care, it's conveniently argued that any habits or risk-taking that could harm one's health are the prerogative of the federal government, and are to be regulated by explicit rules to keep medical-care costs down. This same argument is used to require helmets for riding motorcycles and bikes.

Not only do we need a license to drive, but we also need special belts, bags, buzzers, seats and environmentally dictated speed limits- or a policemen will be pulling us over to levy a fine, and he will be toting a gun for sure.

All 18-year-old males must register to be ready for the next undeclared war. If they don't, men with guns will appear and enforce this congressional mandate. "Involuntary servitude" was banned by the 13th Amendment, but courts don't apply this prohibition to the servitude of draftees or those citizens required to follow the dictates of the IRS- especially the employers of the country, who serve as the federal government's chief tax collectors and information gatherers. Fear is the tool used to intimidate most Americans to comply to the tax code by making examples of celebrities. Leona Helmsley and Willie Nelson know how this process works.

All our financial activities are subject to "legal" searches without warrants and without probable cause. Tax collection, drug usage, and possible terrorist activities "justify" the endless accumulation of information on all Americans.

Government control of medicine has prompted the establishment of the National Medical Data Bank. For efficiency reasons, it is said, the government keeps our medical records for our benefit. This, of course, is done with vague and useless promises that this information will always remain confidential- just like all the FBI information in the past!

Personal privacy, the sine qua non of liberty, no longer exists in the United States. Ruthless and abusive use of all this information accumulated by the government is yet to come. The Patriot Act has given unbelievable power to listen, read, and monitor all our transactions without a search warrant being issued after affirmation of probably cause. "Sneak and peak" and blanket searches are now becoming more frequent every day. What have we allowed to happen to the 4th amendment?

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2002/cr062702.htm