Willie Nelson & Family September 20, 2012 at 8:00PM  The Chicago Theatre, Chicago IL Currently On Sale

Living legend singer-songwriter, musician, performer, actor and American icon Willie Nelson is going back out on the road again with newly announced tour dates including a rare downtown performance at The Chicago Theatre on September 20, 2012. Showtime is 8:00pm. Greg Bates will also perform. As a Nashville artist in the ‘60s, Willie Nelson penned more than a few tunes that have arguably become American classics themselves, including “Crazy,” “Night Life” and the sublime “Funny How Time Slips Away.” But that was just the prologue for the iconoclastic singer-songwriter, who would redraw the borders of country music in the ‘70s after moving back to Texas and settling in the musical melting pot of Austin. Along with fellow traveler Waylon Jennings, Nelson was labeled the outlaw of the genre, but he was more visionary than rebel, especially with the way he attracted rock fans to take a closer look at country. He was celebrated for his work with buddies like Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson, but scaled even greater chart heights by singing, improbably enough, with Julio Iglesias (“To All the Girls I Loved Before”). Along with Wynton Marsalis, recent cohorts have included Western swing band Asleep at the Wheel and reggae icon Ziggy Marley.