Willie Nelson by Joe Nick Patoski

Author:Joe Nick Patoski [JOE NICK, PATOSKI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO004000
ISBN: 9780316031981
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2008-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

TWO months before the axe fell, Jerry Wexler had bankrolled a Willie Nelson live album at the Texas Opry House, Willie’s new performing home in Austin. The crowd who’d crammed into the Texas Opry House asshole-to-elbow was very drunk, very high, and very sweaty, no matter how well the air-conditioning was supposedly working. They packed the big room to see the star of the Willie Nelson Fourth of July Picnic and to be part of the live album being recorded over the two-night stand on June 29 and 30, 1974. The recording documented Willie Nelson and Family at the top of their game, throwing out great balls of sonic fire into the sea of fans. The band—Paul English, Bee Spears, Mickey Raphael, and Sister Bobbie—augmented by Jimmy Day, back in good graces again, and Johnny Gimble, Mr. Dependable on the fiddle, was tighter than ever. Willie’s voice had matured and lost some of the flat nasal twang of the RCA years, gaining depth and tone. His guitar playing was virtuous. Everyone cooked.

The show opened the same way all Willie shows opened—with five strums of the guitar followed by the plea:

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