Willie Nelson is the subject of a new profile in The New Yorker today. Writer Alex Abramovich followed Nelson, 92, on tour this year, to get a window into this final phase of his legendary life. There’s a lot of noteworthy info in the story. For instance, COVID-19 made Nelson so sick he wanted to die, and his wife, Annie, offered to do the need if he wanted. Abramovich includes comments from artists who played this year’s touring Outlaw Music Festival, including Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, who admires Nelson’s vision of America as “a big tent” and his aim at corporations rather than people. Texas politician Beto O’Rourke, for whom Nelson has campaigned, calls Nelson “the best of Texas: you can be a freak, a weirdo, a cowboy, a rancher, a cello player, whatever.”
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