Saw Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard last night at Radio City! Asleep At The Wheel was their backing band; Ray Price, the 81-year-old songwriter behind "Please Release Me," opened the show. Merle's "Big City, Turn Me Loose," probably got the best reaction.
This makes twice now I've seen Merle -- for my 19th birthday, Mom & Dad & I saw him within earshot of Dad's machine shop at a club called Dillon's. The building has gone by several names before and since -- I recall it first as the Wrangler outlet where 6-year-old Barry got a big promotional Dale Earnhardt poster (I hung it next to them Duke boys). Aside from a beautiful poster of the Space Shuttle Challenger taking off, which I destroyed by rolling it up and batting it around the house (an unconsciously symbolic gesture), I can't recall having any other posters until I reached high school.
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I've seen 2 of the 3 live. Lynn P and I went to see Ray Price in Emporia. He's pretty amazing for someone his age, as is Merle.
Duke boys of Hazzard not Duke boys of Durham
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