Love Willie Nelson?
Then you also love Mickey Raphael.
For over thirty years Raphael has been a member of the Nelson family. That is family with a capital F where connections are created through not through marriage or bloodlines but instead musical talent.
It is Raphael’s supreme command of a harmonica that pulsates the flight of desperation in Nelson’s rendition of “Midnight Rider”, drops a touch of bittersweet poetry to “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” and wails like a night train cutting through the dark Mississippi Delta in “City of New Orleans”.
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Then you also love Mickey Raphael.
For over thirty years Raphael has been a member of the Nelson family. That is family with a capital F where connections are created through not through marriage or bloodlines but instead musical talent.
It is Raphael’s supreme command of a harmonica that pulsates the flight of desperation in Nelson’s rendition of “Midnight Rider”, drops a touch of bittersweet poetry to “My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys” and wails like a night train cutting through the dark Mississippi Delta in “City of New Orleans”.
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