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“WILLIE WALTZES” – By Des Kelly Another outlaw,another multi-talented individual, another member of the “Country rat-pack”who, together with guys like Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, & Kris.Kristofferson set the “Country-Music World on fire, touring, entertaining thousands of “fans”with their “outlaw-style” music, Willie Nelson has always “been around,” writing great songs, singing them (rather nasally), when I first heard him, but, in a style similar to Frank Sinatra, who was supposed to be the most “technically” perfect singer of all time. Willie Nelson sings many of his songs, phrasing the lyrics, sometimes completely out of rhythm, but still completely in cadence, which is by no means easy to do. He also plays an old broken-down acoustic guitar, named Trigger (after the favourite horse of old cowboy star, Roy Rogers), still plays it to perfection, backing himself expertly in the process. Unlike many of his “buddies” who have sadly now passed-on, Willie is ...