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Nation music legend Willie Nelson canceled a number of appearances on the touring Outlaw Music Competition on “physician’s orders.”
“We remorse to tell you that Willie Nelson just isn’t feeling properly and, per physician’s orders, has been suggested to relaxation for the subsequent 4 days,” Nelson’s group shared by way of his account on X on Friday, June 21. “Within the meantime, [Willie Nelson’s son] Lukas Nelson and the Household Band will carry out a particular set to incorporate Willie’s classics and different songs.”
The 91-year-old singer behind such hits as “On The Street Once more” and “Seven Spanish Angels” missed a efficiency in Alpharetta, Georgia, and also will sit out two North Carolina stops in Raleigh and Charlotte. Nelson’s group expects him to rejoin the pageant subsequent week.
The touring pageant additionally boasts Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, John Mellencamp and Billy Strings as headliners. The fest began in 2016 and is curated by Nelson. Friday’s Alpharetta present was the launch of the 2024 version, which can run by way of September.
The brand new yr continues to be younger, however the calendar is already filled with music festivals showcasing artists of all genres — and drawing within the largest celebs. Competition season is normally characterised unexpectedly collaborations, main vogue moments and controversy, and 2024 will possible be no totally different. From Boston to L.A., dozens of various occasions […]
“This yr’s Outlaw Music Competition Tour guarantees to be the most important and finest but with this lineup of legendary artists,” Nelson stated of this yr’s lineup on the pageant’s web site. “I’m thrilled to get again on the street once more with my household and associates enjoying the music we love for the followers we love.”
Nelson has been sidelined by well being scares previously. He very almost canceled the 2019 tour as a result of a “respiration drawback.” Nonetheless, these dates have been merely postponed to later within the yr after Nelson assured followers he was “resting and getting higher.”
Nelson not too long ago shared a duet with homosexual, masked nation singer Orville Peck in honor of Pleasure Month. The pair lined Ned Sublette’s queer nation basic “Cowboys Are Regularly Secretly Keen on Every Different” for Peck’s forthcoming duets album, Stampede.
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Nelson is outwardly keen on duets, having launched two whole albums of them with fellow outlaw nation legends Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard and ridden a number of famous person duets to the highest of the nation music charts (1983’s “Pancho and Lefty” with Haggard, 1984’s “To All The Ladies I’ve Beloved Earlier than” with Julio Iglesias and 1984’s “Seven Spanish Angels” with Ray Charles). Peck stated that the Sublette cowl was Nelson’s thought.
“Willie saved speaking about how the subject material on this music was extra essential than ever,” Peck informed Rolling Stone. “It’s so encouraging to have actual allies like Willie that aren’t afraid to face proudly subsequent to us.”
