Willie Nelson returned to motion final evening, strolling on stage to an emotional response from his followers.
The 91-year-old had missed the primary eight performances of the Outlaw Music Festival touring roadshow, which kicked off on June 21 with Nelson and his household headlining a invoice that additionally options Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, John Mellencamp and others.
Final week he introduced he’d been cleared by medical doctors to return to motion, however later revealed he wouldn’t seem on July 2 both. Thursday evening he performed at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in Camden, New Jersey – and obtained a warn and loud welcome, because the crew-shot clip under reveals. He went on to play a 19-song set, together with his debut of “The Border,” the title monitor of his newest album.
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In an interview with Forbes final yr, Nelson supplied a modest response when requested what his youthful self would have considered his longevity. “Nicely, actually, I take into consideration that lots,” he mentioned. “A nightly factor, I simply recognize all the pieces. I might say turning 90 is a shock. It appears to shock lots of people if I made 90.”
With reference to having made it to his tenth decade, he mirrored: “I believe it is a optimistic angle. Think about what you need and simply get out of the best way.” When instructed that he topped many individuals’s lists of who they’d prefer to smoke pot with, and requested if he had his personal listing, Nelson merely mentioned: “I believe in the event you acquired one, let’s burn it.”
Nelson’s Outlaw Music Fest is ready to go to Bethel, New York, on Saturday evening, and can conclude Sept. 20 in Gilford, New Hampshire.
Willie Nelson Returns to the Stage
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Willie Nelson’s 7/04/24 Camden, NY, Set Record
1. “Whiskey River”
2. “Keep All Night time”
3. “Bloody Mary Morning”
4. “I By no means Cared for You”
5. “Texas Flood”
6. “Mammas Don’t Let Your Infants Develop As much as Be Cowboys”
7. “Angel Flying Too Near the Floor”
8. “On the Highway Once more”
9. “All the time On My Thoughts”
10. “Simply Breathe”
11. “Good Hearted Girl”
12. “Georgia (on My Thoughts)”
13. “I Been to Georgia on a Quick Practice”
14. “Assist Me Make It Via the Night time”
15. “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me After I Die”
16. “Nonetheless Not Useless”
17. “The Border”
18. “Write Your Personal Songs”
19. “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”
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