Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted April 30, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted April 30, 2023 Love this guy…American treasure. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Just an absolute legend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkisNH Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Also a badass...holds several blackbelts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member ViperGTS/Z1 Posted May 1, 2023 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 1, 2023 One of my favs by him 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 1, 2023 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 1, 2023 1 minute ago, ViperGTS/Z1 said: One of my favs by him Great song…I know this is a cover of Townes VanZant but have always liked this duet with Merle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 1, 2023 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 1, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jkw Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Got to see him about 10 years ago great seats about 6 rows back and dead center, he put on a hell of a great concert. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Non smokers wouldn't get it but @ckf will. I would absolutely LOVE to have a sit and smoke session with old Willie and hear some stories. It would be EPIC!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepybrew Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 23 minutes ago, HSR said: Non smokers wouldn't get it but @ckf will. I would absolutely LOVE to have a sit and smoke session with old Willie and hear some stories. It would be EPIC!!! many stories of folks not able to hang. willie got his own strain, must be rocket fuel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sleepybrew Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 though he may have met his match with ckf and hsr! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 53 minutes ago, sleepybrew said: many stories of folks not able to hang. willie got his own strain, must be rocket fuel Ooooo I LOVE a challenge 18 minutes ago, sleepybrew said: though he may have met his match with ckf and hsr! I haven't OD'D yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 1, 2023 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 1, 2023 Another one of my favorite Willie stories: One of the things that I like best about Willie is that he's always followed his own moral compass. That's why, in 1966, when his Willie Nelson Show package tour rolled across South Texas and Louisiana, he added African American country artist Charley Pride to the bill. Willie didn't care what people thought. He knew talent when he heard it. At Dewey Groom’s segregated Longhorn Ballroom, in Dallas, “Dewey didn’t want Charley on the bandstand,” Willie later recalled. “So I got up onstage and introduced Charley . . . I laid a big kiss on him, right on the mouth. Then he started singing, and they loved it.” The color barrier had been broken. Later that night, after a raucous guitar picking session in his motel room, Willie said “I wished I would’ve had a camera. Charley Pride and Dewey Groom had both passed out on the same bed.” This is a photo of Willie and Charley Pride at Soap Creek Saloon in Austin back in 1975. It was taken by the great Scott Newton Photography , who was nice enough to let me post it here. Scott's taken an INCREDIBLE assortment of photos of music stars etc.. who have passed through Austin. You can see them, and purchase them, at his website: https://scottnewtonphotography.com/ Scott's not only a great photographer but a very interesting character with whom to have a conversation! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayward Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 Was it Willy that was basically ignored by Nashville at the start of his career so he went out to Austin Texas and when he gained popularity, Nashville begged him back and he basically told them to stick it up their ass? So many great songs, I wouldn’t know which one to post. Never heard a bad Willy song. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 Who’s going to fill their shoes? swift? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 2, 2023 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 2, 2023 23 minutes ago, Cold War said: Who’s going to fill their shoes? swift? Great song! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold War Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 17 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Great song! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayward Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 If i'd have to pick a favorite, this might be at the top for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X2700 Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 Few years ago on family trip to Disney we stopped in Nashville during cmt week we happened to stop at one of the stores down town and charley was signing autographs. he sat and talked with my family for over half an hour! Just talking about life in general and getting kick out of my daughters!! girls still remember!! my youngest in pic. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DriftBusta Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 To Willie The Willie and Waylon years were what I grew up on. My uncle, who's in his mid 80s now, was into ice/asphalt drag racing on sleds for as long as I can remember, and still names his sled "Waylon". 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sled_Hed Posted May 3, 2023 Share Posted May 3, 2023 On 5/1/2023 at 12:31 PM, HSR said: Ooooo I LOVE a challenge I haven't OD'D yet 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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