Willie Nelson & Family
@ St. Cloud Civic Center, February 18, 1998
By Rico Anderson
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Paul English told me; "This is our first show in over 3 months, so we sounded pretty rusty. No practice, we're too old to practice anymore." Well, they didn't sound rusty at all to me. You can really tell that they are a true family. Paul is a great drummer. Jody took the mic once in awhile and had a great voice himself, sounding a little like Willie at times. Mickey is a great harp player, playing mostly low key in the background, but gets to cut loose once in awhile, especially on the couple of blues tunes that the band did. Bobbie was an excellent piano player and Billy English did a great job stepping up to fill in for Spears. Willie even grabbed the electric guitar to rip off a few leads during one of the blues numbers.
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Any time Willie is in town, go see him, it's a great show, even if you don't think of yourself as a 'country' fan. Later, Paul told me a funny story about a recent show at the Chicago House Of Blues. Some very young fans came up to the band and said; "You old dudes rock". They took them backstage to get an autograph and when they walked them back out to their waiting friends, he heard one of them tell another; "Wow, it was really cool, there was some 'old dude' up there playing guitar and he was playing the song from The Dukes Of Hazzard". The 'old dude' was Waylon Jennings, he was backstage visiting with Willie and the boys.
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