Tag: Musical Families

Music is in the bloodline of the Nelson family. Country giant Willie Nelson passed his songwriting prowess on to his sons Lukas and Micah Nelson, both of whom are musicians. Today I’ll be focusing on Lukas, the frontman of Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. The band appears as the backing band for Bradley Cooper’s character in the 2018 edition of A Star Is Born, with Lukas also co-writing and co-producing songs for the film. From 2015 to 2019, they toured as the backing band for Neil Young. With Young, the band recorded two studio albums (The Monsanto Years and The Visitor), a soundtrack album (Paradox) and two live albums (Earth and Noise & Flowers). For his work on A Star Is Born, Lukas won the BAFTA Film Award For Original Music in 2019 and a Grammy Award in 2020 for Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media, sharing both awards with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.

Lady Gaga assists Nelson on “Find Yourself.” Her powerful vocals can be heard in the background of the chorus. Nelson and Gaga’s voices perfectly complement one another and, though this is just one of several collaborations between the pair, it’s undoubtedly the best.

This is “Find Yourself” by Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real.

Thanks for stopping by and spinning some tunes with me.

See you on the flip side. 😎

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Here come the sons!

Sixty-two years after the Beatles released ‘Love Me Do” – the first of many songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney – their offspring have come together to bring back their tune-making magic.

Sean Ono Lennon and James McCartney have joined forces on a song cowritten by them and released by McCartney called “Primrose Hill”. Named for a public park in London, this is the first-ever collaboration by Lennon & McCartney, Part 2. And if any song could sound just like taking a bittersweet stroll in the park with nothing but longing memories, then this one pretty much captures it.

There’s instantly something familiar about it but it never seems to fall into Beatles mimicry. Nor does it ever reach the heights of Beatles transcendence …. I mean, how could it?

Let me know what you think of this rebirth of Beatles music.

This is “Primrose Hill”, co-written by Lennon & McCartney, 2nd Generation.

Thanks for stopping by today.

See you on the flip side. 😎

NAR©2024

All text, graphics and videos are copyright for The Sicilian Storyteller, The Elephant’s Trunk and The Rhythm Section and is not for use by anyone without permission. NAR©2017-present.