This guy. It's not a stretch to say he's one of the few remaining American cultural living legends. He's still with us--releasing new albums at a clip that puts artists half his age to shame--but it's worth giving him his flowers now.
When he goes, there's not going to be another Willie. The cultural machinery that helped make him no longer exists. There are younger artists as good at what they do as Willie is at what he does, but none will enjoy even close to a similar degree of widespread cultural recognition & significance.
In a year that is already proving exhausting & divisive (& it's only February!), let's take an evening to come together & appreciate something we can all agree on: the genius of Willie Nelson, one of our greatest songwriters. Come see me & a whole mess of amazing artists pay tribute to the man on Fri MAR 15 @backporchfest in Northampton MA at the @aomtheatre. Added bonus: I'll be sitting in on lap steel with the house band The Deep River Ramblers!
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