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Welcome to Day 2 of our coverage of Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90, the two-night tribute concert at the Hollywood Bowl to Shotgun Willie on this, his 90th birthday weekend.
As The Times’ Mikael Wood and Erin Osmon noted, the evening was both uplifting and melancholy, mortality not far from the minds of guests such as Norah Jones, who memorialized Willie’s late sister, Bobbie. Kristofferson, 86, and battling the effects of Lyme disease, made a rare public appearance, joining Rosanne Cash to sing his 1971 classic “Loving Her Was Easier .
“For Willie’s 90th and the memory of Merle,” Rosanne Cash performs a graceful take on “Pancho and Lefty,” propelling its famous chorus to the heavens with moving backing vocals by the McCrary Sisters. — E.O.Warren Haynes is blues-ing up the joint with a snarling rendition of “Night Life.” Big couple of weeks for that classic 1960 song of Nelson’s: Haynes’ cover follows one Frank Ocean included in his much-discussed headlining set at Coachella. — M.W.
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