AT 92, WILLIE NELSON IS STILL ‘ON THE ROAD AGAIN’

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Country music superstar Willie Nelson, 92, performs with his band, The Family, at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater on Feb. 17. The band includes Waylon Payne on guitar, Kevin Smith on standup bass, Mickey Raphael on harmonica and Nelson’s son, Lukas Nelson, on vocals and guitar and Billy English on drums. LARRY BLACKBURN/Keys Weekly

Willie Nelson has still got it.

The country music legend is 92 and still touring, having just released his 153rd album, “Last Leaf on the Tree,” the title song from which he sang in a show at the Coffee Butler Amphitheater on Feb. 17.

The performance included plenty of classics, including “On the Road Again,” “Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” “Good Hearted Woman” and “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.”

The amphitheater was packed for the concert, with plenty of bandannas, blue jeans and cowboy hats in the crowd, above which a smoky haze hovered.

Nelson’s band, The Family, includes longtime harmonica whiz Mickey Raphael, Billy English on drums, Kevin Smith on standup bass, and Waylon Payne on guitar. Payne’s father, Jody, was also a longtime band member before his death.

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