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Concert review: Timeless Willie Nelson plays to appreciative crowd
Willie Nelson wrote “Ain’t It Funny How Time Slips Away,” among the greatest country songs of all time. Nelson played that song early in a 90-minute set Friday night at the Roanoke Performing Arts Theatre, and it served as an apparent platform for everything he stands for musically. His melodies are timeless, but when he sang, he avoided them almost entirely, instead improvising vocal lines that landed far ahead of where one might expect them. That seemed to leave him more space to respond to the vocal lines with equally adventurous guitar licks. His solo, played with conviction on his battered old guitar, was equal parts blues, swing, gypsy jazz and rock.
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