Article: AT 70, WILLIE NELSON IS STILL "LIVE AND KICKIN'".(DAILY BREAK)

Byline: LARRY BONKO

HOW ABOUT a funny little Willie Nelson story to brighten your Monday?

Nelson tells about the time he staggered home after a night of carousing, passed out and slept well into the next day.

Nelson awoke to find his wife beating him with a broomstick. She had wrapped him in a sheet as he slept. ``She meticulously sewed me up in the thing,'' Nelson said.

It was a heck of a way to sober up, said the man whose 70th birthday will be celebrated tonight at 9 on USA. ``Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin''' brings together performers young (Norah Jones and Diana Krall) and not so young (Paul Simon and ZZ Top) in 20 ...

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