Happy Birthday, Willie!

Today is Willie Nelson's 84th birthday. This man still hops on Trigger and plays full-length live shows like it was 1975. If you are not used to playing in front of an audience, even a small one, a twenty minute set can feel like a long time; and then there is Willie, who still plays for a good hour and a half for crowds that reach biblical proportions.

I would like to share a little article about Willie Nelson in honor of his birthday. It is a list of 25 things you might not know about Willie. I knew quite a bit, such as the fact that he was an encyclopedia salesman for a while, but I did not know that he once sang a duet of "Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother" with First Lady Rosalynn Carter at the White House. I wonder if President Carter pumped his fist and hollered, "So well! So well! So well!" during the chorus. Happy birthday to Willie Nelson, everybody's favorite uncle!

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And here is the now retired house shoe that I would enter into a Trigger lookalike contest if one existed.