A TROUBADOUR OCCASIONALLY || HORSE CACTUS MUSIC

The year was 1975. Following half a decade of US Navy submarine service, I was a 28-year-old student at the College of Charleston, in SC. Said year was the only time I felt like I’d been struck by lightning.
That event occurred the first time I heard Willie Nelson sing Blue Eyes Cryin In The Rain, me toasted like a shrimp thrown on a grill by music I'd never heard before. I still remember the moment, rushing out to buy Red Headed Stranger, the first “concept album” that I had ever heard, every cut being part of a continuing story, a tale of the old west that corralled much of what I knew about cowboys and the Wild West into a single remarkable story.
In no time, maybe fifty listens down the road, I had memorized every word of that unique recording. Still remember most of it to this day.
I wrote A Troubadour Occasionally {performed here by Nashville's incredible artist Mr. Adam Cunningham} in honor of Willie Nelson’s 2016 FarmAid 4th of July picnic. Recently we sat through both days of Willie’s spectacular 90th birthday party, being perfectly familiar with everyone onstage.