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Willie Nelson And Family
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Danny Clinch
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Wed Mar 24
7:30 pm
Willie Nelson And Family at Rialto Square Theatre
Willie Nelson's history boasts all the easy navigability of an iceberg. The 76-year-old's voice and underhanded brilliance at stretching country into his own form of pan-States songwriting and arranging pronounce themselves as unmistakably as ever on 2009's American Classic. But grasping that inevitably means plunging further and further back to his first break in '60s Nashville, or at least to the '70s albums (Red Headed Stranger, Shotgun Willie, etc.) that made him huge. Nelson continues to record and perform tirelessly, and with the passing of Johnny Cash, he stands as an ambassador of the American songwriting tradition that he helped innovate.
Rialto Square Theatre 102 N Chicago St, Chicago, IL
Willie Nelson's history boasts all the easy navigability of an iceberg. The 76-year-old's voice and underhanded brilliance at stretching country into his own form of pan-States songwriting and arranging pronounce themselves as unmistakably as ever on 2009's American Classic. But grasping that inevitably means plunging further and further back to his first break in '60s Nashville, or at least to the '70s albums (Red Headed Stranger, Shotgun Willie, etc.) that made him huge. Nelson continues to record and perform tirelessly, and with the passing of Johnny Cash, he stands as an ambassador of the American songwriting tradition that he helped innovate.
