Watch the Chicks, Sturgill Simpson and Billy Strings play for Willie Nelson at opening night of the country legend's 90th birthday concerts
Leon Bridges followed with the Seventies standard “Night Life” with Gary Clark Jr., who stayed for another song, asking the crowd, “Can I turn up a little bit?” The Bowl cheered. “I don’t want to be disrespectful,” he said, plucking away at the first notes of “Texas Flood.” Then Jack Johnson took L.A. on a comedy tour and got laughs after every verse with “Willie Got Me Stoned ,” an original about losing your mind and your cash while playing poker with Willie.
Around the 9:30 mark, Sturgill Simpson, who’s kept the lowest of profiles since releasing his last album, the“There’s only one reason why I’m not on a beach in South Asia right now, and that’s ‘cause it’s Willie Nelson’s birthday,” Simpson joked. “I’m going to take a minute to say something that I’ve never had the courage to say to his face.
The lights dimmed while Simpson strummed his acoustic guitar alone on the stage for “I’d Have to Be Crazy,” a track written by Steven Fromholz and recorded by Willie. Simpson cut it for his own 2013 albumThe hits kept rolling with Miranda Lambert, who got the crowd singing with “Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” the opening track to 1978’sahead of the show. “I feel like I’ve known Willie since I was born.
And then there was Willie, arriving at one hell of a party in the middle of Young’s harmonica solo to join in on “Are There Any More Real Cowboys?” off Young’s 1985 LPJoshua Timmermans / Noble Vision
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