Willie Nelson Closes Farm Aid 2024: Set List

Willie Nelson closed out his annual Farm Assistance pageant on Saturday evening. This date the ease live performance took park in Saratoga Springs, Brandnew York.

“Happy Farm Aid! 39 years!” Nelson mentioned from the degree. Some technical difficulties took park within the first part of his i’m ready, however had been resolved briefly.

You’ll be able to view Nelson’s entire i’m ready record beneath, which integrated a secure of Pearl Jam‘s “Just Breathe,” in addition to renditions of “will the Circle Be Unbroken?” and “It’s Hard to Be Humble” with the entire visitor performers of the pageant.

That is the second one life Farm Assistance has been held in Saratoga, with the ultimate life being over a decade in the past in 2013.

“We’re energized to be back in New York,” Nelson mentioned in a prior observation (by the use of Rolling Stone). “The farmers here have always found ways to innovate and contribute to their communities, even as they deal with uncertainties, extreme weather and policies that favor corporations over people. Farmers need us to stand with them as they work to grow our future.”

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Nelson’s finale got here nearest units by way of John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews and a bunch of others: Mavis Staples, Margo Value, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Evening Sweats, Lukas Nelson with the Travelin’ McCourys, Charley Crockett, Pleasure Oladokun, Southern Road, Cassandra Lewis and Jesse Welles.

“They have all the technology to save the planet,” Matthews mentioned at a pre-show press convention, “but the thing that stops us is greed. … It’s corporate greed.”

“[Farming] is a lot like the music business business,” Value mentioned, “in the fact that it’s just not sustainablefor a lot of folks. … Where you spend your dollar — that matters a lot.”

Willie Nelson, At the Highway Once more

Nelson has had a hectic date already, traveling with Dylan and Mellencamp, in addition to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on his Outlaw Festival excursion. Sadly, Nelson missed the primary 8 displays of the excursion because of physician’s orders.

Recently, Nelson is scheduled to play games 3 concert events in October, all in his house atmosphere of Texas.

Willie Nelson, Farm Assistance 2024, Poised Listing
1. “Whiskey River” (Johnny Bush secure)
2. “Bloody Mary Morning”
3. “I Never Cared for You” (To start with aborted because of area audio technical difficulties; restarted)
4. “Texas Flood” (Larry Davis secure)
5. “(If I Die When I’m High) Halfway to Heaven” (Particle Child secure)
6. “Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys” (Ed Bruce secure)
7. “Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground”
8. “On the Road Again”
9. “Always on My Mind”
10. “Just Breathe” (Pearl Jam Shield)
11. “Georgia (On My Mind)”
12. “Help Me Make It Through the Night” (Kris Kristofferson secure)
13. “Everything Is Bullshit” (Particle Child secure)
14. “Last Leaf” (Tom Waits secure)
15. “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die”
16. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” (William MacEwan secure) (with all visitor performers)
17. “It’s Hard to Be Humble” (Mac Davis secure) (with all visitor performers)
18. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”