Archive for the ‘Ol’ Dillo’ Category

Now that’s Texan

Monday, December 4th, 2017

Mickey Raphael, Michelle Manning Barish, and Kevin Smith (with Ol’ Dillo)

Sunday, March 19th, 2017

Nice photo bomb by bassist Kevin Smith, at the Houston Rodeo.

Ol’ Dillo and Matthew McConaughey

Wednesday, October 12th, 2016

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Everyone wants to hang out with Ol’ Dillo.

Ryan Bingham and Ol’ Dillo, backstage at a Willie Nelson Show

Sunday, April 17th, 2016

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Ryan Bingham and the world’s most famous armadillo hung out at the Willie Nelson & Family Shows in New Braunfels. That armadillo is a rock star.

World’s Most Famous Armadillo: Ol’ Dillo

Saturday, March 26th, 2016

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He crews with Willie Nelson & Family , he hangs out with rock stars and he’s got his own face book page. The girls love him.  The stuff of legends — he was mysteriously kidnapped a few years back in San Francisco, and then returned, just as mysteriously.  Some say his captors couldn’t handle him and brought him back, others say Ol’ Dillo staged the whole thing to get a few days off from work.  Regardless, his legend and fame grew.   Everyone wants a picture with him.

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Ol’ Dillo always has the best seat at Willie Nelson & Family shows — atop the console of monitor engineer Aaron Foye.

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Breaking News: Ol’ Dillo Kidnapped Again; safely returned, no ransom paid

Friday, April 4th, 2014

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http://www.kwtx.com

HENDERSON, Nev. (April 2, 2014) “Ol’ Dillo,” the stuffed armadillo that serves as an on-stage mascot for country music legend Willie Nelson, has been returned after someone absconded with it after a Las Vegas-area show.

Officials at the Westin Lake Las Vegas resort in Henderson  Ol’ Dillo, vanished while audience members were greeting Nelson after a concert Monday night.

Westin marketing director Matt Boland says Nelson’s crew called in the middle of the night from the road, asking the resort to scour surveillance footage after the mascot turned up missing.

Boland says he was outside the hotel Tuesday morning when an apologetic man drove up and handed him a shoebox and instructions to return it to Nelson.

Boland says the armadillo was inside and has been sent to the singer in California.

It’s not the first time the armadillo has been abducted.

In September 2013, Ol’ Dillo was swiped after a show in suburban New York.

A video showed a woman snatching the armadillo, and later a different woman returned the stuffed toy to the theater’s box office in a sealed box.