Nelson was generally content to be in her brother’s shadow, but she would occasionally take a more out-front role, as in 2014 when, billed as Willie Nelson and Sister Bobbie, the two of them released “December Day: Willie’s Stash Vol. “She rolls with whatever I throw at her, and it doesn’t matter where I run off to in music, she is always there when I get back.” “She is the best piano player for me,” he wrote in “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings From the Road,” a 2012 collection of miscellany. Nelson began to tour extensively and record albums like “Red Headed Stranger” (1975) that branched out from traditional country music, Ms. The band helped rejuvenate his career, which had hit a plateau after a decade of working and recording in Nashville. Nelson’s backing band, which he formed in 1973. She became a foundational member of the Family, Mr. “I took my first airplane flight then and flew to New York City, and we did ‘The Troublemaker’ and ‘Shotgun Willie,’ and we’ve been playing together from that time on.” “Then Willie signed with Atlantic Records and asked me if I wanted to do this gospel record with him,” she recounted in a 2008 interview with The Reno Gazette-Journal in Nevada.
Nelson was teaching piano and playing in lounges. But in the early 1970s, they both found themselves living in Austin, where Ms. For a time, their career and domestic paths took them in different directions. Six strings was about all I could handle.”īoth of them played in the band of Bud Fletcher, whom Ms. “Sister Bobbie’s vast musical mind could deal with all those white and black keys on the piano,” Mr. Nelson noted in his 2015 autobiography, “It’s a Long Story” (written with David Ritz).
Nelson and her brother, who is two years younger, had been playing music together since they were children their grandparents, who were raising them, introduced them to instruments. Nelson’s publicist, Elaine Schock, confirmed the death.
Bobbie Nelson, the longtime piano player in her brother Willie’s band and a grounding influence in his life and music, died on Thursday in Austin, Texas.
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