Illness stopped Willie Nelson from playing The Villages last year but the Country Music Hall of Famer is coming back.
Nelson, 84, will play The Sharon on Oct. 18. Tickets go on sale Aug. 30, and range from $50 to $200.
Willie Nelson and Family will bring some of country music’s most memorable and historic songs to The Villages. Willie started out as a songwriter and he penned such classics as, “Night Life,” “Crazy,” “Hello Walls,” and “Funny How Time Slips Away.”
Nelson revitalized his own recording career during the 1970s when he and Waylon Jennings created the “outlaw” movement in country music.
Willie became a household name with the album, “The Red Headed Stranger,” and the song “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.” Here’s a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7vaYOIKWYY
After that, Willie’s career skyrocketed with movies, TV appearances, concerts and crossover hit singles and duets.
The list includes “Good Hearted Woman,” “If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time” and “On the Road Again.” Other hits: “Always On My Mind,” and “To All the Girls I Loved Before.” He also teamed with Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson in the Highwaymen.
Nelson is more than a performer; he is unique, American musical legend and historical force. He started Farm Aid to help American family farmers and despite his advancing years, remains as musically relevant as ever.
Two years ago, the United States Library of Congress celebrated Nelson’s 60-year career by awarding him the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington, D.C.
“I wouldn’t call him country or soul or exclusively anything,” Kristofferson said of Nelson in a video tribute at that event. “He’s one of a kind.”
