Paul English, Willie Nelson’s longtime drummer immortalized in the song “Me & Paul,” has died at 87
“If I hadn’t gone with Willie, I would be in the penitentiary or dead,” English, a former pimp and gang leader, toldNelson’s most famous ode to English, however, isthat documents the friends’ many misadventures, from drug busts in Laredo, Texas, to dust-ups at the airport in Milwaukee. “They said we looked suspicious/But I believe they like to pick on me and Paul,” Nelson sang.
After trading the monstrous chrome drum set he bashed away on in the Seventies for a cocktail kit, English’s subtle brushed drumming defined Nelson’s later concerts, those loose, freewheeling affairs where medleys and instrumental explorations became the Family Band’s signature. English suffered a minor stroke in 2010 but continued to tour, resuming his role as his boss’ “money man” until he was able to get back behind the snare or play a shaker.
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