Tom McMahon (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
An excerpt from Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life: Texans by nature are independent, free-thinkers, open, outgoing and friendly. Iconoclasts, they respect tradition but are not beholden to it. Whether it's God or sin, they tend...
BLUES TOWN (The City Of Blues) (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
In the biography Stevie Ray Vaughan, authors Joe Nick Patoski and Bill Crawford relate the story of a young Stevie Ray being heckled by older brother Jimmie. The elder Vaughan was drunk one night, listening to Stevie rehearse and yelling, "You can't play shit." When the generic insult failed to get a rise out of Stevie, Jimmie resorted to real insults. "You sound like fuckin' Robin Trower!"...
WPKN Today (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
3:00 p.m. - Ken Best, Good Music Interview with Joe Nick Patoski, author of "Willie Nelson: An Epic Life." Technorati tags: WPKN , radio
The latest from newcritics (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... at Jazz at Lincoln Center is worth the price of admission. More to come about this and about Joe Nick Patoski’s excellent new Willie Nelson biography, but Willie’s a direct tie back to the fertile Texas soil of the 1930s which gave us Western Swing. Also great listening is a recent, digital only reissue of a 1966 Willie show at Panther Hall in Texas Live Country Music Concert …. Jenny...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
DALLAS, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Willie Nelson -- part cowboy, part Indian, all icon -- is the main attraction in the September issue of Cowboys and Indians, The Premier Magazine of The West, now on sale everywhere. In a cover-story profile, Joe Nick Patoski -- author of the new biography "Willie Nelson: An Epic Life" -- describes the Country music icon as immensely proud of his Cherokee...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
DALLAS, July 21 TX-Cowboys-Indians DALLAS, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Willie Nelson -- part cowboy, part Indian, all icon -- is the main attraction in the September issue of Cowboys and Indians, The Premier Magazine of The West, now on sale everywhere. In a cover-story profile, Joe Nick Patoski -- author of the new biography "Willie Nelson: An Epic Life" -- describes the Country music icon...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Willie Nelson's first name really is Willie. Not William. Just Willie. That's about the simplest fact about this complex American musical icon, which means it's a Herculean task to put the singer-songwriter into context. Noted Texan author Joe Nick Patoski tries in his new biography, and although he secures interviews with Nelson and family and doesn't miss a fact, he comes up short in...
