Willie Nelson and Family Live In Concert
Wharton Center for Performing Arts-Cobb Great Hall
MSU Campus
East Lansing, Michigan 48824
9/24/2009 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Phone: 517-432-2000
Willie Nelson has penned more than a few tunes that have arguably become American classics themselves, including “Crazy,” “Night Life” and the sublime “Funny How Time Slips Away.” But that was just the prologue for the iconoclastic singer-songwriter, who would redraw the borders of country music in the ‘70s after moving back to Texas and settling in the musical melting pot of Austin. Along with fellow traveler Waylon Jennings, Nelson was labeled the outlaw of the genre, but he was more visionary than rebel, especially with the way he attracted rock fans to take a closer look at country. Willie has scaled the charts with such classics as "To All the Girls I Loved Before” and on his new album "American Classic" he closes with a re-interpretation of “You Were Always On My Mind,” the one-time Elvis Presley hit that Nelson took to #1 on the country chart and to Top Five on the pop charts.
