Willie Nelson Brings It Back To Western Swing

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MELISSA BLOCK
NPR All Things Considered
03-17-2009
Willie Nelson Brings It Back To Western Swing

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Willie Nelson has collaborated with everyone - really, just about everyone - from jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis to the Spanish singer Julio Iglesias. Nelson's latest collaboration brings him a little closer to home. He's playing the music of one of his idols, western swing master Bob Wills, with the band Asleep at the Wheel.

It's the kind of old-style music you might have heard long ago, when Bob Wills' tour bus would stop ...

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