This close-to-three-hour concert film is a distillation of those two days, and while it’s easy to run through the list of players and query the obvious absences (Dwight Yoakam, The Chicks, Ziggy Marley, Sturgill Simpson, Orville Peck and others all fail to make the cinematic cut), it’s hard to quibble with any concert film that boasts performers as diverse as George Strait, Rodney Crowell, Beck, Snoop Dogg, Tom Jones and Keith Richards. One the event of Willie Nelson’s, wait for it, 90th birthday (!!!), a huge two-day concert event was held in Los Angeles earlier this year to celebrate, and an incredible array of artists were on-hand to bring the party via some wonderful musical performances. Over the decades of his storied career, Willie Nelson has become well-loved not just for the brilliance of his songwriting and the unmistakable timbre of his wise, world-weary delivery, but also for his counter-culturalist swagger and, particularly in recent years, his fondness for – as Woody Harrelson calls it in one of his introductions here – Saint Mary Jane. “He’s the vibe nurturer.” They’re apt words to describe the great Willie Nelson, the genial, friendly face of the mostly lonesome-ornery-and-mean brand of Outlaw Country Music that he invented with his compadres Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson in the 1970s. “He’s the spirit guide,” says singer Edie Brickell during this extraordinary concert film.
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