Performers came and went quickly, most only there for a single song, choosing either tunes written by Nelson or associated with him through his own covers and performances of them. Margo Price noted she’d grown up on a farm and praised Nelson for his tireless work on behalf of farmers over the years before she and Nathaniel Rateliff sang the saucy, swinging “I Can Get Off on You,” which Nelson wrote with his close friend Waylon Jennings. Lyle Lovett chose Nelson’s “Hello Walls” because it seemed “the perfect song” from the moment he heard it as a boy in Houston. “I’d like to thank all the artists that came out to help us celebrate whatever we’re celebrating,” Nelson said as he settled into a chair at the center of the stage, his sons Micah and Lukas Nelson, who’d performed earlier in the evening, with guitars on either side of him.Īnd then it was on with the show, country star George Strait came out to play a pair of songs with Nelson, then Snoop Dogg for one, and finally the entire lineup for the finale of the first night of Long Story Short: An All-Star Celebration of Willie Nelson’s 90th. He was hanging out backstage as friends such as Lyle Lovett, Miranda Lambert, Chris Stapleton and Beck sang classic songs from his vast catalog.īut then, a little after 10 p.m., as Neil Young sang “Are There Anymore Real Cowboys?” with his sometimes bandmate Stephen Stills on guitar, out from the wings walked Willie, the man of the hour, and the fans that packed the Bowl on Saturday for the first of two birthday shows erupted into cheers and applause.
Three hours into an all-star celebration of Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday at the Hollywood Bowl, the birthday boy had yet to be seen.
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