Willie Nelson, a living country legend, has lost most of his musical outlaw friends like leaves from a tree, and his loved ones worry that he will soon be riding off into the sunset himself.
According to Knewz.com, the 91-year-old redhead stranger was so distraught by the death of his best friend Kris Kristofferson, 88, in September that he waited over two months before talking about it and then exploded with grief.
He said, “I hated to lose him.” It was a depressing period. I had a terrific friend named Kris. We also made a bunch of music together and just generally had a great time.
Following Kristofferson’s passing, Willie was the only surviving member of the country music ensemble The Highwaymen, which also comprised the late country music icons Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
“If you just take the music part of it and go back to Waylon and Kris and John and all of us working together, Highwaymen, and then I am the only one left” , Willie said. “That’s just not funny.”
In 2022, he lost his sister, Bobbie, who played piano in the band, and his beloved friend Loretta Lynn. In 2020, he lost Paul English, who had been his buddy and band drummer for fifty years.
“Willie says the hardest part of living as long as he has is seeing his friends and musical contemporaries leave before him” , told an acquaintance.
“The feeling of loss is just too much, even though he is aware of how fortunate he is to be living such a long life. It’s a difficult cross to carry.
“It puts him in the frame of mind that he has nothing to fear about joining them in the great beyond.”
In his recently released CD Last Leaf on the Tree, Willie, who has struggled with emphysema and other health issues that resulted in the cancellation of performances on his Outlaw Music Festival tour last summer, reflected on his lonely existence.
According to insiders, Willie’s wife Annie, 67, and their two musical sons, Micah, 34, and Lukas, 35, both perform with their father, provide him with excellent family support. However, as he mourns his departed friends, an unusual sense of melancholy is beginning to set in.
Nevertheless, the straightforward celebrity claimed that while he prepares for his farewell bow, he keeps a straightforward mindset.
The guitarist reflected, “I don’t have any reason to worry about dying.” “I don’t know anybody who’s lived forever!”
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