People want to write about it because it might be a story that it’s challenge for me to live up to my dad. And the only place anybody talks about the notion of living up to this or that is in the media. LUKAS: I try not to pay attention to that. I do believe there is power in the blood.įor any of the children, there has to be certain amount of pressure following in the footsteps of Willie Nelson.

WILLIE: I think it’s definitely in the DNA. With so many of the Nelson children pursuing music, does it feel like music is something you can pass along genetically? The pair duet together on the record’s first radio single, a cover of Pearl Jam’s “Just Breathe.”Įarlier this month Lukas and Willie discussed the family business in a phone conversation from Willie’s ranch in Spicewood. On Heroes-a Willie Nelson studio album that hits stores Tuesday-Lukas is prominently featured on nine of the set’s fourteen tracks. Willie’s son Micah, a musician, visual artist and videographer, plays regularly with his father, while Lukas, 23, leads Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, which recently released its sophomore set, “Wasted.” His youngest daughter, Amy, anchors an acoustic duo dubbed Folk Uke, and her older sister, Paula, is an Austin-based singer-songwriter. These days, a new generation of Nelsons is regularly sitting in with “The Family” and writing, recording and performing their own music.

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