"I've played shows wih Neil over the years, and I've done Farm Aid a lot," Earle said, referring to the family farmer benefit concert series hosted by Young, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp for the last 30 years.
I can do something like Farm Aid with Willie Nelson, Neil Youngung), and John (Mellencamp), and we can raise a lot of money to highlight a problem in this country--like the small farmer--and then also financially help the struggling farmers.
bExcluded women who did not have to do farming because they had no farm or livestock.
We did something together with Willie Nelson at Farm Aid a year ago.
Lately he's been busy performing for wounded Iraq war vets -- like all Democrats and progressives, he hates them -- and last month he performed his all-American classic, "Small Town," at the opening game of the NFL Season (between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints), 3 nights before the annual Farm Aid benefit he does with Willie Nelson.
Mr. Ryan, who did not engage on the issue of farm aid, went after the president's biggest political vulnerability.
Nor does it cut the overall amount of farm aid the European Union doles out, a staggering $49 billion a year.
"You never know what you are going to get in a Neil Young concert because he never knows exactly what he is going to do," says Willie Nelson, a friend who started Farm Aid with Young and John Mellencamp in 1985.
His remarks were widely criticized as inappropriate, but they did inspire Willie Nelson to organize a series of events, Farm Aid, to benefit debt-ridden American farmers.
