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She kept describing Austin as something altogether different from anywhere in Texas. But once Bobbie settled in Austin, she kept saying how things were changing. I was happy being tucked away in Bandera. For example, I didn’t tell Bobbie to move back to Austin. Like my song said, I don’t have to understand the plan to see that it’s being put in place by someone who sure ain’t me. In this excerpt from “Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band,” brother and sister take turns telling a story about how they reconnected with each other, and their Texas childhoods singing hymns at the Abbott United Methodist Church. No more live shows though, but Willie’s still keeping busy with the release of a new book with his sister, Bobbie Nelson, and music writer David Ritz, published by Random House.
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They jammed that night and the crowd sang along, none likely realizing they could be risking their lives to hear Willie croon and Trigger wail in their own sweet tempo. In a bent straw hat and trademark braids, the Texas legend welcomed on stage a harmonica player fast becoming a Houston legend in his own rite: Jim Allison’s pioneering cancer research on immunotherapy won a Nobel Prize and is saving lives. In March, Willie Nelson’s soothing but lonesome voice washed over 70,000 people at RodeoHouston days before the pandemic shut it all down and turned our lives inside out. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York Courtesy Show More Show Less
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Copyright © 2020 by Willie Nelson and Bobbie Lee Nelson. Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band. Gary Miller, Contributor / Getty Images Show More Show Less 4 of4 Willie Nelson (R) and Bobbie Nelson perform in concert during the Luck Reunion at Luck, Texas on Main Spicewood, Texas. Gary Miller, Contributor / Getty Images Show More Show Less 3 of4 Gary Miller, Contributor / Getty Images Show More Show Less 2 of4īobbie Nelson performs in concert with Willie Nelson during the "Texas Strong: Hurricane Harvey Can't Mess With Texas" benefit at The Frank Erwin Center on Septemin Austin, Texas. Over the course of the album, the pacing and atmosphere takes on an aching, if not narcotic, tone, and by the time Julio Iglesias emerges to sing “If Times Goes By” the listener feels he's entered a surreal but seductive dream state.Bobbie Nelson (L) and Willie Nelson pose backstage before their New Years Eve concert at ACL Live on Decemin Austin, Texas. As was the case with Stardust, the instrumentation here is based on the warm glow of Jones’ keyboard the performances always grow out of that gentle sound. They took a stuffy song that contemporary listeners viewed as crusty and corny and made it into something deeply languorous, sensual and seductive. The performance is emblematic of the Jones-Nelson collaboration. Most prominent is the title song, a reading of a 1930 Paul Whiteman tune that became the album’s lone hit. While this effort doesn’t have the gilded inspiration of its predecessor, there are several sterling interpretations here. Jones, who produced, arranged and played keyboards on Stardust. For the occasion Nelson reunited with Booker T. Without a Song is essentially a sequel to Stardust, the 1978 album of standards that brought Willie Nelson to a whole new plateau of fame.