Talk:Family (Willie Nelson's band)

A name hardly ever used
The group name "Willie Nelson & Family" was only ever officially used on the soundtrack of Honeysuckle Rose (as far as I know). IMHO the article and its title is largely made up (E-Kartoffel (talk) 15:47, 26 February 2013 (UTC))
 * Hardly ever used by the people who doesn't know much about Willie Nelson. The name Willie & Family, as well as references to his band as "Family", "The Family" or "Family Band" can be seen often in albums, press releases, concert posters, bibliography (such as the one this article uses as a reference). To give you a few examples:
 * Aticles: Let's Face the Music and Dance Press release, Amazing Grace (Austin360), Dan 'Bee' Spears, Willie Nelson's bassist, dies
 * Albums: Willie & Family Live, Honeysuckle Rose (the one you mentioned), and his latest realease Let's Face the Music and Dance (just to name a few examples.
 * Posters:1, 2, 3, 4
 * Neither the article or its title are even close to be "made up".-- GD uwen    Tell me!   17:47, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Nelson has a relatively constant backing group (since 1973) that he very occasionally, in recent years apparently more so, calls "family", or "friends"(see announcement: "Willie Nelson and Friends Family New Year". The group name is not as strict as the article suggests, it is not a consistently promoted group name used on releases, like for example "Neil Young and Crazy Horse". If you'd follow the example this articles' title for Jazz Quartets, we would have 100s of articles named "Quartet (Musician Name's band)", or lots of "Friends (Musician Name's band)". And: WN announces the group as "Willie Nelson and Family", never as "Family" only, that would be impossible E-Kartoffel (talk) 10:22, 28 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The name appears as I noted in several articles, promotions, releases and bibliography. The band is referred as The Family, it could be arguable that the name of the article could change, but still "Willie Nelson and Family" would imply that it also discuses the biography of Nelson.


 * The term was not recently coined (as it proves the title of his 1978 release, or as it is named on this 1991 article). Either way, I agree as well that it has been more intensively used for the past fifteen years. If the name was used informally for years to refer to his backing band, and recently became an "official" way of calling them, I don't think there is really a difference if that was their name since the beggining in 1973. In a popular, but informal context they were called "The Family", "Family", "Family band"; and it has now acquired a more consistent use to denominate the backing band.


 * I would anyway agree to change the name of the article if a more suitable title could be found.-- GD uwen    Tell me!   14:46, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

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