Nelson will open the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience on Friday before headliner Brandi Carlile. History will be made at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Experience on Friday, when Lukas Nelson plays what will likely be the first solo-acoustic concert in the 35-year-old musician’s career. Nelson has played solo shows before, but that was before he made the following announcement on his website on June 5: “After 15 unforgettable years, Promise of the Real has decided to take a well-earned hiatus, and begin a new creative chapter in all of our lives.
Lukas plans to keep writing, recording and playing shows, while the rest of us will continue to pursue our own projects and artistic ambitions. Expect to see a lot more great art from all of us in the near future.” Nelson and his younger brother, Micah, 34, are the sons of Willie Nelson and Annie D’Angelo who married in 1991 (Willie’s fourth marriage).
They have five step-siblings; one stepbrother passed away in 1992. “I was born in Austin,” Nelson said in an interview with the Aspen Daily News. “I grew up in Maui and Austin and on the road.
I mean, I grew up in the United States. I grew up on the interstate. I grew up in diners, in truck stops and in hotel rooms.
I grew up on the road with Dad, and my dad is everybody’s dad, so I’m just an American son.” When asked what his earliest memory of playing music was growing up, Nelson said, “It’s hard to pinpoint an exact moment but I do remember the mo.