Book Notes: Willie Nelson, Sister Bobbie tell their story
By Glenn Dromgoole
If you’re a Willie Nelson fan, you’ll want to read his new book, Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band ($28 hardcover, with collaborator David Ritz).
Willie and big sister Bobbie (she’s two years, three months older) alternate writing chapters about growing up in Abbott, Texas – abandoned by their parents, raised by their devoted grandparents, to whom they dedicate the book — and their adventures, successes, challenges and tragedies thereafter.
They’ve been close all their lives. “Without my sister,” Willie writes, “I’d never be where I am today. She was there at the beginning and remains with me, on- and off-stage, to this very day. There’s no stronger or longer or steadier relationship in my life.”
Willie is 87. Bobbie will turn 90 on Jan. 1, and they’re still going strong.
“Isn’t Bobbie just a little girl who fell in love with the sound of an organ and a piano?” Willie writes. “Aren’t I just a little boy who fell in love with the sound of a guitar? They tripped and triumphed and suffered and survived. But the essentials never changed. The girl loved music. The boy loved music. And music loved them.”
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