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Django and Jimmie is the sixth and final collaborative studio album by American country music artists Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. It was released on June 2, 2015, by Legacy Recordings . The album was Haggard's final studio album prior to his death of pneumonia in April 2016, 10 months after its release.
It became the single for Nelson and Haggard's 2015 collaboration album Django & Jimmie. [1] The single was released on April 20, 2015, or 4/20, a date significant for its implication in cannabis culture. [3] A video of the song was released on the same day, featuring Haggard and Nelson recording the song in the studio. [2]
Two singles of the album were released on November 21, 2014. "Laws of Nature" was premiered on Nelson's Sirius XM channel Willie's Roadhouse, while the single and video of "Who'll Buy My Memories" was premiered on Rolling Stone Country. [11] The entire album was premiered on New York Times' website series Press Play on November 24. [12]
Saxophonist Don Markham, who had played with Sly & the Family Stone, the Ventures, the Bakersfield Brass, and Johnny Paycheck played with the Strangers from 1974 to 2013. [17] In the mid-1970s, former Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys guitarist Estel "Eldon" Shamblin was invited to join the Strangers. [18]
In 2015, Rolling Stone Films presented a documentary, Mastering the Craft: Trigger, which depicts the story of the guitar. Directed by David Chamberlin and narrated by Woody Harrelson , the film features interviews with Nelson, his biographer Joe Nick Patoski, harmonicist Mickey Raphael , and singer Jerry Jeff Walker .
As a fugitive, he knows that trying to settle down or start a relationship are too risky—either his new friends (or a new girlfriend) would tip off the authorities or would slow him down as the authorities catch up—and is resigned to living a lonely life on the road as a "rolling stone" ("Down every road, there's always one more city/I'm on ...
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [ 4 ] Al Campbell of AllMusic praises the album, insisting, " My Farewell to Elvis may not be on par with Same Train, A Different Time or Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World , but it's a decent, if overlooked, session in the Haggard discography."
[5] Ben Ratliff of Rolling Stone gave the album 4 stars, enthusing, "...what a lyricist he still can be. All the songs emanate from a single persona, an aging, cloistered singer (Haggard is in his sixties) whose routine—avoiding drugs, taking comfort from cushioned bus seats, being honest with his kids — is all he has".