Get well wishes going out to Willie Nelson.
As of last night, we are now three days into Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival Tour, but Willie, who's co-headlining the trek with Bob Dylan, has yet to play
Shortly before Friday's opening show in Alpharetta, Georgia, it was announced that the 91-year old Nelson wasn't feeling well and, on the advice of his doctors, would be skipping at least the tour's first three shows, with his son Lukas taking his place at the front of the Family Band. Special guests Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks sat in on a few numbers on Friday.
Meanwhile, Dylan played a totally unexpected set on Friday that included five 1950's covers, four songs of his 2012 album Tempest, and four random others, including his contribution to the 2000 Wonder Boys movie soundtrack, "Things Have Changed," and the title track to his 1990 album Under the Red Sky
He changed up his set for Saturday's show in Charlotte, North Carolina and Sunday's in Raleigh, North Carolina, retaining Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" and The Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" from the opening night's '50s numbers, and two songs from Tempest, but adding a couple from 1965's Highway 61 Revisited, a Grateful Dead cover, "Stella Blue," and one each from Nashville Skyline, Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind.
Also on the first half of the tour are Celisse, as well as Robert Plant and Allison Krauss. Their set was notable for three songs from the Led Zeppelin catalog: "Rock and Roll," "The Battle of Evermore" and "When the Levee Breaks," which they played each of the first three nights.
The Outlaw Music Festival Tour will return -- hopefully, but not certainly, with Willie Nelson on hand -- Wednesday in Virginia Beach, Virginia. (Rolling Stone)