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The other day I was at the dollar store picking up stocking stuffers and snacks for a Christmas get together. Out of the corner of my eye I spot a picture of Willie Nelson tucked over in the corner. It's a Christmas book he had written in 2016 about his beginnings in Fort Worth playing in rough bars and honky tonks while scratching out a living as a new husband and dad. It tells the story of an encounter with a legless guy selling paper and pencils on the sidewalk in the snow and Willie's trials trying to strike up a friendship with the old, gruff guitar player. Willie wrote a song about. Wanna hear it? It goes something like this.

 

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I had heard Dwight Yokum talking about singing late on the down beat like Ricky Nelson and Willie and really didn't know what he meant.

Now I do.

 

I didn't know Ricky Nelson did, never noticed that, but Willie has long sung behind the beat.

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Willie is larger than life and my respect for him is on many fronts.

 

I've seen him live a few times, some years ago with the whiskey flowing.

 

Trigger will be the most valuable guitar on the Planet someday.

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