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Article: HARD WORK WAY OF LIFE FOR VETERAN WILLIE NELSON
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- Herald-News (Joliet, IL)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2000
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After five decades of making music, Willie Nelson is still the hardest-working guy in the business.
He can't help it -- it's in his blood.
"I've just always been in it," he said after a recent concert.
"I started playing guitar when I was 6 years old, and before that I was writing songs."
Nelson, 67, probably doesn't even realize that what he does is unusual, releasing two or three albums and playing more than 200 live shows in a year.
But that's who he is and what he does.
On July 23, country music's Outlaw played to a sold-out crowd at Joliet's Rialto Square Theatre.
Backed by the band he calls The Family, he played for two hours and 20 minutes, only pausing briefly between songs to ...