"When Willie Nelson performs in and around New York, he parks his bus in Weehawken, New Jersey. While the band sleeps at a hotel in midtown Manhattan, he stays on board, playing dominoes, napping. Nelson keeps musician's hours. For exercise, he does sit-ups, arm rolls, and leg lifts. He jogs in place. "I'm in pretty good shape, physically, for ninety-two," he told me recently. "Woke up again this morning, so that's good.""
"His band, a four-piece, was dressed all in black; Nelson wore black boots, black jeans, and a Bobby Bare T-shirt. His hair, which is thicker and darker than it appears under stage lights, hung in two braids to his waist. A scrim masked the front of the stage, and he walked out unseen, holding a straw cowboy hat. Annie, his wife of thirty-four years, rubbed his back and shoulders."
Willie Nelson parks his bus in Weehawken, New Jersey, when performing near New York and stays aboard while his band sleeps in a Midtown Manhattan hotel. He keeps musician's hours, plays dominoes, naps, and exercises with sit-ups, arm rolls, leg lifts, and jogging in place; he notes being "in pretty good shape, physically, for ninety-two." On September 12th he performed at the Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden with a four-piece band dressed in black; Nelson appeared in black boots, jeans, and a Bobby Bare T-shirt, his hair braided to his waist. Big screens played Nelson's 1986 single "Living in the Promiseland," added after ICE raids, and the video juxtaposes Holocaust survivors and Haitian migrants, images that resonated amid nearby violent and threatening events.
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