Hippies and rednecks? Like dogs and cats, right? Or maybe both are just a little rough around the edges and misunderstood. Willie Nelson sure figured out that market pretty well!
Just in case any other Deadheads were curious about that guitar, it's a walnut stratocaster built by Dan Erlewine, who also built "Lucy", Albert King's flying V guitar. It's likely they were built from the same batch of wood. Known to be played on 11/18/72, 11/19/72, 11/22/72, 11/23/72, 12/10-12/72 (only on two of the nights, but Alligator was also played), and 5/13/73.
I play bluegrass and other traditional music at tech events, along with talks that essentially explore this and proximal questions.
As to the specific lineage of this music through Bill Monroe -=> Jerry Garcia -=> John Perry Barlow -=> EFF/archive.org/etc, I had a sit-down with my producer where we recorded a sort of video-open-letter to a few friends on this topic:
Crossing the border with $40k cash in the 1950s would be the equivalent to $450k cash in 2023 dollars. Sounds like they got that bit wrong or there’s more to the story.
> Gram Parsons, a longtime client of Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors and Manuel Couture, poses in his iconic marijuana-encrusted Nudie Suit.
Parsons was once in a band called the Flying Burrito Brothers, and each member had their own Nudie suit. Rolling Stone ran a story not too long ago about one of them that had been lost [0]. Though it is somewhat odd to imagine the short number of years Parsons might have been a client given he died at 26.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DaDoCUT4ML8/maxresdefault.jpg
Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers:
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fl...
Nudie and Gram:
https://cmhof.imgix.net/content/uploads/2021/03/01231732/Gra...
Hippies and rednecks? Like dogs and cats, right? Or maybe both are just a little rough around the edges and misunderstood. Willie Nelson sure figured out that market pretty well!