Blue Skies over Willie

Rocky Schenck

The sounds of Willie Nelson are eclectic and exotic, imbued with heartache and romance

Details

8:00 p.m. Friday, March 17. Tickets cost $29.75 and $22.50. Call 305-358-5885.

Pompano Beach Amphitheatre, 1801 NE 6th St, Pompano Beach.

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More About

• Willie Nelson
• Shotgun Willie
• Ray Price
• Patsy Cline
• Faron Young

Surprise has always been at the heart of his finest work, however, and his greatest albums in the Nineties have come completely from left field. Following those IRS woes, Nelson released Who'll Buy My Memories, a double-album set of solo performances designed solely to repay some of the $17 million he owed Uncle Sam. What should've been a piece of hack work actually was an intimate, inspired masterpiece that eclipsed everything he had done since Red Headed Stranger. Upon an out-of-nowhere 1996 signing with Island (the label best known for Bob Marley and U2), Nelson delivered Spirit, a spectacular collection of stark ballads that spotlighted the piano work of his sister Bobbie Nelson and his still-astonishing gut-string guitar work. And in 1998 Nelson threw out yet another curve ball: Teatro, a remarkable assemblage of old and new originals recorded with country songbird Emmylou Harris and Cuban percussionists Victor Indrizzo and Tony Mangurian. Eclectic, exotic, imbued with heartache and romance, it sounds like nothing but Willie.