Really getting worried about old Willie

[Eastex]

I just don’t know that Texas is ever really going to be ready to lose Willie Nelson. I can’t imagine any one person filling the vacuum he’ll leave, he’s been a Texas icon as long as I’ve been alive.
I was talking with my wife about him the other day and how his popularity cut across all kinds of lines. My granny remembered him from his clean cut days and in her later years she’d say that “ he looked like he had gone to seed” and she was definitely no fan of drugs or those who used them but she still loved Willie.
I figure it was because he never turned on the people who disagreed with on him on long hair or drugs or whatever politics they might have disagreed with him on. You knew that he loved Texas as much as you did. You also had the impression that he could disagree with you without mocking you and your beliefs, especially if he was in front of a foreign crowd, (hello Dixie Chicks).
I hope he kicks this latest bout and gets to perform a little longer. He’s the last lovable liberal left.


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[Peally]

(Willie fan warning) As someone not from Texas I had no idea he even was from Texas. To me he's a guy that fell pretty hard from a country icon to a western themed pot smoker that banks on his drug use to stay relevant. Not to be particularly harsh but between hearing what he's written in the past and seeing him in more recent concerts that's overwhelmingly the impression I got. I'm young and was never around in his prime so take that with a grain of salt.

He get sick recently? I haven't seen anything in the news and usually that sort of thing pops right up.

[RoyGBiv]

Hopefully it's nothing worse than the flu. Nothing respiratory is trivial for a 84 yo pot smoker, I know.
http://www.khou.com/news/willie-nelson-ends-concert-cancels-shows-amid-illness-concerns/506638171

First time I saw him live was at Aksarben (Omaha) around '86, IIRC. Hard to believe it's been 30 years.

[blues]

Each of us must some day walk west, I imagine Willie knows that about as well as anyone. But he'll be back again...


https://youtu.be/aFkcAH-m9W0

[orionz06]

Never knew he was from Texas. I also despite country music too so there's that but Willie is an icon, not just some twanger.

[RevolverRob]

I was sad the day Selena died. I was disheartened when Anne Richards died. I was none-too-happy when Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash died. But I'll be heartbroken when Willie dies.

Willie Nelson transcends so many cultural boundaries in Texas...even Hank Hill loves Willie Nelson (http://kingofthehill.wikia.com/wiki/Hank%27s_Got_the_Willies)

[blues]

I was sad the day Selena died. I was disheartened when Anne Richards died. I was none-too-happy when Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash died. But I'll be heartbroken when Willie dies.

Willie Nelson transcends so many cultural boundaries in Texas...even Hank Hill loves Willie Nelson (http://kingofthehill.wikia.com/wiki/Hank%27s_Got_the_Willies)

I miss Merle...


https://youtu.be/_3OEOHnAIIY

[TDA]

I’m from a different part of the world and don’t give a damn if musicians have long hair and/or smoke pot. Willie Nelson is a really talented guy, and I’ve been listening to all sorts of random stuff he did for decades. Like, Louis L’Amour audiobooks on cassete tapes. Seriously.

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[TheDLoon]

Greg Abbott is just a figurehead, everyone knows Willie is the REAL Governor of Texas.

Here's a video of him performing on the debut episode of Austin City Limits, back when it was a TV show and not a hipster music festival.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn8A72wnOZM

[camsdaddy]

Willie Nelson was the first concert I ever went to. It was in Plains Ga at the first what was then called country days. Willie and President Carter are friends and he came and played. The mix of people was unreal even to 5-6 year old kid. I remember seeing secret service, farmers, hells angels you name it. Think it's also the first time I ever saw a biker. Willie became a favorite and I could listen to him beat that guitar for hours. Years later he came back to Plains and performed another concert for Mr Carter and the folks of plains. This time it was my daughters first concert guessing 2003-2004.

[Guinnessman]

https://youtu.be/b6IB0trJoJU

[Lex Luthier]

A dear friend did a lot of repair work on "Trigger" back in the late 90s. Few acoustic guitars have stood up to that kind of wear.

Willie is a national treasure.

[blues]

https://youtu.be/W1bXdXWEKaE

[Chance]

Nelson has also done a ton of work for charity over the years, particularly Farm Aid.

[LittleLebowski]

His politics get to me and I really think his obsession with wild horses is misplaced (it’s his right, though), plus I’m not very taken with much of his music. Except the below :)


https://youtu.be/vFDq0VMV-Vc

[Cypher]

I suspect it's going to come down to Willie and Keith Richards but in the end there can be only one.


https://youtu.be/tpt3agmMiyo