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Article: Isn't that Willie Nelson?: Tucsonan has made a part-time living as impersonator.
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- AZ Daily Star
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- April 26, 2007
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Byline: Cathalena E. Burch
Apr. 26--Willie Nelson isn't doing many interviews these days so we settled for his look-alike.
Tucsonan Don Box has spent so many years impersonating Nelson that it's hard to tell where Box ends and the impersonation begins.
Box is a spitting image of the Redheaded Stranger, with a mostly white beard cut close and neat, gentle eyes that project a grandfatherly warmth, and long hair pulled back in a bandanna over his forehead.
At Country Thunder in Florence two weeks ago, a woman was so convinced Box was Nelson that she sent her daughter to investigate. Nope, Box told the teen girl, who admitted she didn't ...