{"id":19052,"date":"2013-09-16T09:37:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19052"},"modified":"2013-09-16T09:37:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T13:37:47","slug":"willie-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19052","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"

We saw the legendary Willie Nelson, this past weekend. <\/p>\n

His voice still sounds great - still has that smooth relaxed tone - but it looks like he doesn't have the breath he once had. A lot of his phrases were quick and clipped. And, he let the audience handle a lot of the singing. But, he's 80<\/i>, so that's OK. His guitar playing was a bit off, though. At first, he sounded out of tune and off beat, and way too loud in the mix. Sounded like one of those \"shreds\" videos<\/a>. Eventually, though, he synced up with the rest of the band and all was well.<\/p>\n

As you would expect, he played a ton of his well-known songs, along with a bunch of well-known covers (including a set of Hank Williams songs). <\/p>\n

The crowd was a much older crowd than we've seen in a while. And, thankfully, they were happy to sit down through most of the show!<\/p>\n

Willie's son Lukas, and his band<\/a>, \"Promise Of The Real\", opened. They do a blues\/country\/rock hybrid, very Texas, very rockin. He's got his dad's voice, but puts a ton of bluesy growl into it. And he's a good guitar player. He played in his dad's band, for that set.<\/p>\n

Good show, all around. Plus, it was our 17th wedding anniversary that night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We saw the legendary Willie Nelson, this past weekend. His voice still sounds great - still has that smooth relaxed tone - but it looks like he doesn't have the breath he once had. A lot of his phrases were quick and clipped. And, he let the audience handle a lot of the singing. But, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}